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Dr. Shuji Honjo, Managing Director of Honjo International, a business consulting firm in Tokyo, delivers strategies of new business development and investment. He is also a Visiting Professor of the MBA Program at Tama University Graduate School.
Dr. Honjo serves as a member of board of directors at Realcom K.K. and Ocean Capital. In addition, Dr. Honjo is a Registered Partner of Ichiryu Associates, a government and large corporate consulting firm, and an advisor for a number of large and high-growth companies. As an extension of his hands-on advisory work, he was an acting COO for Revic Global, a multilingual, rich content solution provider based in Japan, China, and the US.
Most recently he developed principal investment practice at Lehman Brothers Japan as Senior Vice President. Formerly he founded and represented the Tokyo office of General Atlantic LLC, a major global growth equity firm specialized in Information Technology and related fields. Prior to General Atlantic, he was Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Group Strategy Manager of CSK/SEGA Group, a leader in IT solutions and digital entertainment in Japan. During his SEGA tenure, he also worked as Director of Marketing at California-based, Segasoft Networks Inc., to pioneer the online gaming business.
He has extensive business consulting experiences with Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo and with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in California. At CSC, he was the first Japanese Business Reengineering consultant working with James Champy, the originator of reengineering.;
Dr. Honjo's social contribution includes participation in and advisory to government committees and other public programs such as the IT Service and Software section of Industry Structure Examination Committee at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Mobile Number Portability Study Committee of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Chair, Advisory Board of Web2.0 EXPO Tokyo. He also represents SNS Xshibuya, a JV with Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, focusing of creative business networking.
Dr. Honjo has Ph.D. in International Studies from Waseda University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from the University of Tokyo.
He has presented research work on entrepreneurship and innovation in Japan, Europe, and the US since co-founding Corporate Venture Research Group. Dr. Honjo is an active contributor to major Japanese journals including Diamond and Nikkei, and has authored a number of books including: Web Innovation for Corporate Transformation; Management that Creates Growth; Secret of Spontaneous Growth of Cisco Systems; Beyond Japanese Management - Hewlett-Packard; and Deceits and Truth of Information Technology.
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