Mitch Sengoku brought an international perspective to the firm and has continued to lead Sangikyo in an innovative and creative ways during a decade of considerable change. He led the company into the telecom and mobile communications era and has personally managed the development of the communications and networking business for the company. Additionally, he developed a new product service, a set of business software enhancing tools known as “Optimization-ware” for total corporate performance enhancement.

Over the past decade, CEO Mitch Sengoku has appeared both nationally and internationally in public and on television to promote the significance of Sangikyo’s “Knowledge Management Optimization Services.”

In 1967, Sengoku studied at San Jose State University in California. He then graduated with a major in Commerce and Business Management from Keio University in Japan.  On the Judo team at Keio University, Sengoku fine-tuned his competitive skills and he has been an avid supporter of Japan’s national judo programs.

After college, Mitch joined the Sony Corporation in their new overseas marketing division and spent several years working in the US. He moved up within the Sony Corporation of America and soon became a director at Sony Plaza. During this time, he established a new import products division within Sony.

A good deal of Sengoku’s thinking about marketing developed during his days with the Sony Corporation of America, where he had hands-on responsibility for US sales. He has continued to build on his Sony expertise by attending international conferences, seminars at the Keio University School of Business and through his memberships in various business research groups.

He was one of the pioneers of applying the digital signal processing technology to communication systems, having received his Ph.D from the University of Tokyo and then granted the Fellow Grade from IEEE, the world�fs leading professional association for the advancement of technology, upon his extraordinary achievements.

After accomplishing his own goal in the technology arena at NEC’s Central Research Laboratories, he stepped into a new challenge to put him in the business management arena. During the last half of this second challenge, he served as Senior Vice President of NEC America, Inc. from 1994 through 2002, being responsible for the entire NEC’s communication systems business with North-American telecommunication carriers. He made an interesting finding during his tenure in the US that his knowledge gained through R&D can be effectively applied to improving business operations as well, successfully having transformed himself into a business executive. He could expand his business as large as to over 6 times, while simultaneously achieved significant cash flow improvement through reducing inventory and shortening accounts receivable collection period by motivating people to work with his unique method of daily PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Action) management.

After joining Sangikyo, he has made significant contribution in transforming the company into “The Optimization Company” through careful articulation of key concepts and developing a driving mechanism named “Optimization-Ware” which provides a cyberspace where answers to any “need-to-know” information regarding company operations and working know-how can be inquired at any time from anywhere without bothering others and where executives, managers and employees can virtually get together to exchange information, knowledge, ideas and opinions beyond time and working location constraints. With the articulated concept and the tools, the management team successfully strengthened the company against the economic turbulence. Dr Maruta’s experiences as a researcher and a research manager have been very much instrumental to create and nurture a team of system architects in order to develop, upgrade and maintain innovative own business management tools within the company.

Before joining Sangikyo, Yasu spent a decade working for the Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd. His responsibilities were largely with the energy sales division, where he was responsible for jet fuel and oil market sales to business and government, including major airline companies and the Japanese Self Defense Agency.

For the last two years, Yasu has used his time to expand his international market experience by participating in business school programs, attending international conferences and studying with foreign sales and marketing experts. In the process, he has given lectures and presentations in Japan and abroad about Sangikyo’s unique telecommunication and engineering services.

Yasu is a graduate of Gakushuin University (1996) with a major in economics.

Shimada has authored numerous books covering the Japanese economy, international management, and labor issues. As an active publisher of books and articles, he frequently writes comments and essays in newspapers and popular magazines. Shimada also appears regularly on TV programs both in Japan and abroad such as CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and BBC for comments.

After completing graduate studies at Keio University he received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he had for forty years been a professor at Keio University. He has also ybeen a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ESSEC in France.

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