SESSION SPEAKERS

Takaki Umezawa

CIC Japan Chairperson / KEARNEY Japan Chairman

At Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), he has led the effort to develop CIC Tokyo, Japan's largest startup center. CIC Tokyo, opened in 2020, is a host for 330 companies and innovation clusters for life sciences and climate tech among others. As a KEARNEY partner, Umezawa has served leading corporations in Japan and the US for 25 years. Areas of his expertise include strategy, innovation, urban development, and organization. Umezawa sits on the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters of the Cabinet Office. He holds a bachelor of law from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves the board of Startups, Inc. as a non-executive director.