Kotaro Saijo
President & CEO at Mitsui & Co. Italia SpA
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolKotaro Saijo is a seasoned corporate leader with over three decades at Mitsui, combining deep expertise in textile and fashion brand development with strategic finance, M&A and startup investment experience across Japan, Europe and the US. He founded MANGO Japan and later transitioned to financial and investment roles—leading private equity, credit and leasing transactions, driving AI-driven commodity trading projects, and spearheading pharma and ICT startup investments from Silicon Valley. As President & CEO of Mitsui & Co. Italia since 2020, he blends operational leadership with a hands-on interest in machine learning, reflecting a rare mix of commercial retail instincts and tech-forward investment acumen. Fluent in cross-cultural dealmaking from time in France, London and Milan, he is comfortable moving between brand-building and advanced financial/tech initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PED, PED at IMD Business SchoolUniversité de Montpellier Paul-ValéryBachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics at Keio University
French, English, japanaese, Italian
Github Skills (11)
self-attention9
document-classification9
classification8
keras7
lstm7
nlp7
pytorch6
machine-learning6
python6
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nn116003/self-attention-classification
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
document classification using LSTM + self attention
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pytorchnlppythondeep-learninglstm
nn116003/mtg_reinforce
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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