Keita Saito
Executive Vice President at Diamond Generating Corporation
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeita Saito is a senior energy and infrastructure executive with 12 years in international business development, investment, M&A and project management, now leading Mitsubishi Corporation’s Europe Power Business Department. He has steered utility and water deals across Asia, Europe, Australia and the US, holding executive and board roles—including EVP at Diamond Generating and non-executive directorships at multiple water and energy companies. Known for bridging corporate strategy with hands-on deal execution, he combines transaction experience with operational oversight of large-scale power and water projects. His board experience and time as a business development lead give him a rare blend of investor perspective and on-the-ground commercialization skills. Outside corporate roles he contributes to open-source software—improving UX in a widely used Emacs package—illustrating technical curiosity and attention to user experience. Based in Tokyo’s Chiyoda district, he brings a global network and pragmatic leadership to decarbonization and infrastructure investment initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Liberal Arts, International Politics, Bachelor of Liberal Arts, International Politics at International Christian UniversityInternational Christian University High School
Github Skills (7)
ivy10
emacs-lisp10
completions10
searching9
refactoring8
debugging7
debug7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
abo-abo/swiper
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Keita primarily contributed to the `counsel-mark-ring` feature within the `swiper` repository. Their work involved implementing preview and highlight functionality by candidate, refactoring code to reduce nested let statements, and integrating the latest mark to the selection. The user also added a customizable variable for sorting and fixed the highlight line of the selected candidate, enhancing the user experience and functionality of the feature.
elispcounselivygenericemacs
ProofCafe/proofcafe.github.com
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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