Shinichi Sato
Chief Coordinator
Japan
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Top SchoolShinichi Sato is a strategic business-builder and corporate venture specialist with over three decades of experience turning deep technology into commercial ventures across Japan, China, Korea and the Asia-Pacific. He has led go-to-market, systems-integration and BD teams at HP, Agilent and Motorola, launched and ran Samsung Venture Investment’s Japan office where he sourced deals and secured ¥1.9B in funding, and later helped commercialize university research as Managing Director at Tohoku University Venture Partners. Equally comfortable with early-stage VC and enterprise sales, he combines hands-on technical roots in systems engineering with proven skill in fund formation, cross-border deal-making and open innovation. He also advises startups entering Japan through his own firm TG Stream and sits on strategic boards, bringing a rare blend of operator, investor and academic commercialization experience. An understated connector, he often opens markets by building interdisciplinary partnerships between startups, corporates and research institutions.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Precision Mechanical Engineering, BS, Precision Mechanical Engineering at Tokyo Denki Universitycertificate, Executive Management Course (高级总裁班）, certificate, Executive Management Course (高级总裁班） at Fudan UniversityM.B.A, General Management, M.B.A, General Management at The University of Chicago - Booth School of BusinessMaster of Intellectual Property, Strategy in Intellectual Property, MS, Master of Intellectual Property, Strategy in Intellectual Property, MS at Tokyo University of Science
Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean
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Github Skills (38)
ssm7
merge6
notification6
aws-ssm6
concourse-resource6
image-comparison6
specification5
image-processing5
esxi5
stateless4
concourse4
command-line-tool4
cli4
slack3
aws3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
in-house-swagger/swagger-editor
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
swagger-editorswagger
suwa-sh/profile
May 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:29 PRs, 80 pushes, 29 branches in 7 years 10 months
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