Miki has more than 20 years of investment experience at The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. and Nippon Mirai Capital Co., Ltd. in the area of acquisition finance, distressed investment and turnaround/buyout private equity investments. Since 2007, he has been CEO of New Frontier Capital Management Co., Ltd., which owns and manages a variety of alternative investment fund management companies. At the same time, he assumed an investment committee member position at MIC. He joined MIC as part-time EVP in late 2009 before fully joining MIC as CEO in June, 2010.

MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Medford MA, USA)
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
CFA

Prior to joining MIC in September 2003, Takashi worked at Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. formerly The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited. Takashi was engaged in financial products sales, foreign exchange, and corporate finance at the headquarters and Osaka branch, mainly in charge of major electronics manufacturers and start-up companies. Takashi was appointed as a director of MIC in June 2010.

B.A. in Economics, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Hideaki started his career at NTT DATA CORPORATION as a systems engineer in projects for the Japanese and Malaysian governments, as well as the package software business. Prior to joining MIC in December 2008, he worked at a strategic consulting firm and an investment bank (ICT Infrastructures).

MBA, Sloan School of Management , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA, USA)
M. Eng. and B. Eng., The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
METI-Registered Management Consultant

Prior to joining MIC in April 2000, Takeshi was involved in establishment of MIC when he was at the Corporate Finance Division of IBJ Securities (current Mizuho Securities) after being engaged in financial products and corporate sales at the Industrial Bank of Japan where he started his career.

B.Eng. in Management Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)

Prior to joining MIC, Arata worked at NGB Corporation, where he provided research and consulting services for the strategic use of intellectual property rights including novelty search, infringement search, technology analysis based on patent information, etc.

MBA, Waseda Business School (MOT course), Waseda University(Tokyo, Japan)
M. Eng. and B. Eng., Keio University (Tokyo, Japan)

Takeshi started his career at AIMNEXT Inc., where he engaged in an ERP packaged software project and gained broad experience of the system development business.

M. Ag. and B. Ag., The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Founded MIC in 1998 and served as President & CEO until June 2010. Prior to founding MIC, Ikuo served as Head of Computer Systems Research Institute and General Manager of Information System Division at SHARP Corp, and Vice President (1992-1993), President (1993-1997) and Chairman (1997-1999) at Intel Japan.

Ph. D. in Engineering, Osaka University (Osaka, Japan)
M. Eng. and B. Eng., Osaka University (Osaka, Japan)