Kazuhiro Imazato
CVC, Startup Sourcing, Funds at NEC Corporation
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolKazuhiro Imazato is a seasoned telecom and new-business leader with 12 years’ experience spanning mobile network system engineering and a decade of launching verticals for Japanese and US markets at NEC Corporation. He has progressed from hands-on 3G/LTE systems work to leading 5G/6G use-case development, university and partner collaborations, and hearable acoustic-authentication experiments. Since 2025 he has been building NEC’s corporate venture initiatives, focusing on startup sourcing and funding to accelerate open innovation. Trained at Waseda Business School and with graduate study in knowledge engineering, he blends technical depth with business strategy and ecosystem building. Notably, he combines operator-grade telecom expertise with practical experience commercializing deep-technology collaborations across borders.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
WASEDA Business SchoolMinerva managing complexity project博士課程前期, 知識工学, 博士課程前期, 知識工学 at 同志社大学
English, JapaneseGithub contributions (5)
kazeto/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
kazeto/phillip
Feb 2014 - Dec 2018
Contributions:379 commits, 276 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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