ABOUT US

Hidetaka Fukuda

CEO

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HIDE has 40 years’ experience in high-tech industries as Government Officer and Consultant, and has a wide network of contacts especially in semiconductor industry in Japan, US and Asia. He also had served as Special Advisor (Value Creation) at Silver Lake in 2008-2018.

He started his carrier at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). He was assigned Deputy Director of JETRO at San Francisco in 1998-2001, then was Managing Director of Information and Communications Equipment Division at MITI in 2003-2005. He retired from the office in 2006.

HIDE joined AIO Core as one of the co-founders in April, 2017. He was a board member and CSO (Chief Strategic Officer), and  is CEO from June, 2021.

Kazuhiko Kurata

CTO

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KAZU had been the PETRA project leader for development “Optical I/O Core ” based on silicon photonics technology since 2012. He has over 30 years of experience and leadership in R&D and product development. He realized several optical fiber communications,optical interconnection modules and optical subsystems at the NEC Transmission Division,NEC Laboratories and PETRA. LD passive alignment technology, one of the keys of optical I/O cores, have been developed and completed with his leadership about 25 years ago.The advanced embedded optical interconnect module "PETITE" was also producted out in 2008,which is the initial stage of optical interconnection.

KAZU joined AIO Core in April 2017 as one of its co-founders. Since then, he has served as Director and Chief Technology Officer.

Shuichi Tahara

CFO

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SHUICHI  has been Executive Director of PETRA for the management of research and development of silicon photonics and advanced IT system with photonics since 2016.  He was deeply involved in the founding of AIO Core as a co-founder. He was Vice President of NEC corporation before PETRA.  He engaged in management of research and development of Central Research Labs. In NEC, including silicon photonics, spintronics, superconductors, smart energy related technologies, and so on.  In 1988-89, he was a visiting researcher at Stanford University in the Applied Physics. He is a Fellow member of IEEE and The Japan Society of Applied Physics. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from Kyusyu University in Japan.

SHUICHI joined AIO Core in June, 2022.  He is a board member and CFO from June, 2022.

Satoshi Mizusawa

Director

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SATOSHI works for RYOSAN Co. Ltd. more than 25 years. He is basically a semiconductor Field Application Engineer ( FAE ) expert. His application field covers not only various micro-processors but also customers VLSI applications, including FPGAs and Reconfigurable Processors.
He was General Manager, Systems Solutions Division in 2014.
From 2016, he is Executive Officer,Head of Corporate Solutions Division (present post)
SATOSHI joined AIO Core in Octber, 2017 as a director, board member.

Koji Osawa

Director

Dr. Osawa has over thirty-five years of experience in investment and management of high-tech companies in Japan, the U.S. and Asia. He co-founded Global Catalyst Partners in Silicon Valley (U.S.) in 1999 and Global Catalyst Partners Japan (GCPJ) in 2014. GCPJ focuses on investment opportunities primarily in Japan with $120M under the management.
Prior to GCPJ, Dr. Osawa was at Mitsubishi Corporation, the largest trading firm, for 14 years, starting in 1985. He was responsible for business development with high-tech companies in Japan, U.S. and Asian countries.
Dr. Osawa is on the board of 10 portfolio companies and serves on the Board of Directors of KITO Corporation (a public company at TSE) and Keizai Silicon Valley(NPO).
Dr. Osawa received a BS in Electronics from Keio University, Japan and Ph.D. in Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan.

Masato Marumo

Corporate Auditor

Masato is a business development expert with strong financial background as a PE/VC investor. Focus on technologies such as wireless technologies, semiconductors, electronic components, IoT/AI and agritech. Over 25 years of experience in bridging Japanese blue-chips to global markets and technologies.
Masato received MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996. In prior to MBA, he worked at the Industrial Bank of Japan for 10 years.
After MBA, he worked for Carley Japan LLC, Lazrd Frehe Co. Ltd. and Silver Lake Asia LLC (Japan national team).
Currently, Masato is a President & CEO of Origin Wireless Japan Co., Ltd. and a Director of MetCom Co., Ltd., etc.
Masato is a Corporate Auditor of AIO Core since June, 2020.