Next Generation Summit 2023

Speakers

• Masahiro (Mark) Ikeno
  Executive Director, U.S.-Japan Council (Japan)
  With extensive business management and development experience, Masahiro (Mark) Ikeno joined the U.S.-Japan Council Japan in May 2023 as Executive Director. Mr. Ikeno was President and CEO of NEC Corporation of America, an industry-leading provider of digital transformation and communications technology and integrator of IT solutions, where he was responsible for the vision, business strategy, operations and leadership of the company. Before joining NEC Corporation of America in November 2017, he was President and CEO of NEC Europe Ltd., based in London.  He was a seasoned executive with more than 35 years of extensive sales, marketing, business development and management experience with NEC Corporation, NEC EMEA and NEC America, primarily in information technology and computing. Mr. Ikeno also served as President and director of the NEC Foundation of America, focused on advancing community development and education. Under his leadership, the Foundation worked on CSR, CSV, diversity, equity, and inclusion with NGO/NPO as well as the government and made a significant impact through its initiative. In 2020, Mr. Ikeno was awarded the “Mayor’s Award of Excellence” for community involvement in the City of Irving and the region. Mr. Ikeno holds a Bachelor’s Degree in theoretical physics from Kyoto University, Japan.

• Masaaki Kataoka
  Financial Management Senior Officer, Prudential Holdings of Japan
  Masaaki Kataoka is Senior Officer in Financial Management Function, currently leading Financial Planning & Analysis unit at Prudential Holdings of Japan (PHJ). Prior to starting his current role at PHJ in July 2020, Masaaki held different Finance leadership roles in insurance operating companies in Japan, including Prudential Life Insurance Co., Ltd (POJ) and Prudential Gibraltar Financial Life Insurance Co., Ltd (PGFL), as well as Prudential International Insurance (PII) in Newark, New Jersey during his twenty-five year career at Prudential. Masaaki holds a Bachelor of Art in Linguistics from Sophia University in Tokyo.

• Philip Roskamp
  Philip Roskamp is a career Public Diplomacy Officer with the U.S. Department of State. He serves as Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at U.S. Embassy Tokyo. Prior to arriving in Japan, he served as Counselor of Public Affairs at U.S. Embassy Manila; Deputy Director in the Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island Affairs; Public Affairs Officer in Mumbai, India; Assistant Information Officer in Jakarta, Indonesia; and Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center. He also served in Dakar, Senegal and Okinawa, Japan. He has supported U.S. Government response to several natural disasters, including the Great East Japan Earthquake, Nepal earthquake, and Haiti earthquake, and has experience representing the United States in multilateral fora.  A native of San Antonio, Texas, he is married with three children. He graduated with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law and received a Bachelor’s in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Previous experience in Japan includes serving at U.S. Consulate Naha, representing San Antonio, Texas in the Kumamoto City Hall International Exchange Section through the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, and studying abroad at Sophia (Jochi) University and the Hokkaido International Foundation.

MC

• Kanako Yamagami　TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program (2019-2020)

Kanako Yamagami is an alumna of the 2019-2020 TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program. The program greatly helped her figure out what she wanted to pursue in her career, and she currently works in marketing for a U.S.-based IT company. 

Beginning in middle school, her passion has been to promote cultural exchanges between Japan and other countries, and she participated in more than ten international programs/student conferences during her student life. She spent three semesters of her college life in the United States; two semesters in Boston participating in an exchange program and working as a committee member of the Boston Japan Festival, and one semester in Denver working for a U.S. Congresswoman as part of a program hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

 

• Tristan Norman  TOMODACHI Kakehashi Inouye Scholars Program (2018)

Tristan Norman is an alumnus of the 2018 TOMODACHI Kakehashi Inouye Scholars Program and a 2020 graduate from Hendrix College. At Hendrix College, he designed an interdisciplinary major in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, with a thesis focused on climate adaptation, social innovation, and green growth in Japan and China. Currently, he is part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme in Kami-cho, Hyogo and is a Programs Officer at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) Tokyo. Since graduating from university in 2020, he has interned at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the Youth Unit at the UN Headquarters in New York where he worked on youth climate advocacy.

At YPFP Tokyo, he helped co-organize and design a 2022 Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) for Japan, a youth-led and youth-focused UN climate change conference, supported by the youth constituency of the UNFCCC (YOUNGO), focusing on promoting youth empowerment and climate action leading up to COY17 and COP27 in Egypt. This conference featured many TOMODACHI alumni as speakers! Tristan is particularly interested in how we can utilize multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approaches to design a more sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient future. Tristan is passionate about mountaineering and wants to pursue a career in international affairs focused on sustainable development.

 

Here are the moderator and panelists for the panel discussion on studying abroad.

Moderator

• Hiroko Okutani　Building the TOMODACHI Generation: Morgan Stanley Ambassadors Program（2016）

Hiroko Okutani is an alumna of the 2016 Building the TOMODACHI Generation: Morgan Stanley Ambassadors Program. She is currently working as a Business Development Manager at a Real Estate Developer in Tokyo. Based on her experience with the TOMODACHI program and other intercultural experiences, she aims to bring more diversity and inclusivity to the Japanese education system. She also studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland when she attended Kyoto University. As for her professional career, she worked for the International Investment Division in the field of Oil and Gas and worked for an American real estate company in the past. As a side business, she also works as a mental health counselor. For the Next Generation Summit 2023, Hiroko will be moderating the panel “Study Abroad – Its Impact and Empowerment for Future Generation”.

Panelists

• Marina Yoshimura　Toshizo Watanabe​ Study Abroad Scholarship Program（2017-2018）

Marina Yoshimura is a recipient of the U.S.-Japan Council’s Toshizo Watanabe​ Study Abroad Scholarship Program. From 2017 to 2018, she studies abroad at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She is currently working as a civil servant focusing on political affairs and defense. She has an academic background in political science and global affairs and professional experiences with public-private partnerships and aid. Using her experiences in journalism and menstrual rights advocacy, Marina co-produced a documentary on menstrual rights and stigma in Japan called A Bloody Taboo, which won the  Award of Excellence and the Senses of Women Award in 2021. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS) at Waseda University.

 

• Tokuyasu Endo　TOMODACHI Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship Program （2021）

Tokuyasu Endo is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship Program 2021. He is currently enrolled in the Faculty of Economics at Kyoto University. With the scholarship, he studied for one year at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana in the summer of 2021. After returning to Japan, he took a leave from school for half a year to focus on his job hunting. In order to increase his knowledge and improve the skills required for the finance-related positions he hopes to gain, he plans to study abroad in the United Kingdom for six months in the fall semester of 2023. He participated in the U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference and the Next Generation Summit 2022. He was born and lives in Osaka, Japan.

 

 

• Shunsuke Hayasaka　TOMODACHI Summer SoftBank Leadership Program（2017）

Shunsuke is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Summer 2017 SoftBank Leadership Program. After participating in the program, he became interested in English and enrolled at Miyagi University of Education to study English Education. While at university, he had hoped to study abroad at a partner university. However, due to the spread of the coronavirus, the dispatch of international students was temporarily suspended, so he studied abroad through The Canada-Japan Co-op Program which gave him the opportunity to work at a local business while studying business marketing and customer service at a community college in Vancouver. From April 2023, he plans to return to Miyagi University of Education to conduct research on English Education.

PANEL on Women’s Empowerment

Moderator

• Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks

Program Development Committee Chair, USJC

Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and former Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Loyola Marymount University

 

 

 

 

Panelists

• Miku Yoshiba　TOMODACHI Metlife Women’s Leadership Program　(2015)

Miku Yoshiba is an alumna of the 2015 TOMODACHI Metlife Women’s Leadership Program. Since completing the program, she has remained actively involved in activities provided by the U.S.-Japan Council and TOMODACHI Initiative. In 2017, she interned at the U.S.-Japan Council Washington DC office through the Internship Development Young Leaders Program organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan and the U.S. Department of State. In 2023, she organized a workshop celebrating International Women’s Day for U.S.-Japan Council members and TOMODACHI alumni residing in the Washington DC area. Currently Miku works as a business consultant at PwC Consulting Co., Ltd., while pursuing a Master’s Degree in System Design and Management at Keio University since 2022. Most recently, she went on a study abroad program at Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she studied design thinking, strategic innovation, and other subjects. Miku has a rich history of participating in various overseas programs since her high school exchange program in Pennsylvania, USA. She is highly skilled at showcasing her leadership abilities in diverse environments.

 

• Ayaka Kasamatsu  TOMODACHI STEM Women’s Leadership & Research Program (2019)

Ayaka Kasamatsu is an alumna of the 2019 TOMODACHI STEM Women’s Leadership & Research Program. When she participated in the TOMODACHI STEM Program, she conducted research on extracellular proteins during the formation of the cornea at Rice University in the United States. She received her B.S. and M.S. from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tokyo, and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology at Stanford University where she is working on the mechanisms of cell migration involved in cancer metastasis and other developmental diseases related to her research experience in the TOMODACHI STEM Program. Ayaka is a recipient of the Graduate Fellowship from the Nakajima Foundation in 2022.

 

 

• Naha Takashima U.S. Embassy-Keio SFC-TOMODACHI Entrepreneurship Seminar (2018)

Naha Tahashima is an alumna of the 2018 U.S. Embassy-Keio SFC-TOMODACHI Entrepreneurship Seminar. While studying abroad in the U.K. during university, she realized the gap between Japan and the U.K. in sex education and co-founded Genesis with the support of the TOMODACHI program. She has been involved in various awareness-raising activities, including the production of a sexual consent handbook in collaboration with Kyoto City, sexual consent workshops conducted for a total of over 2,000 people, and the development of an app to redefine sexual values between partners. After working as an intern at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, she graduated from Kyoto University in 2019 and is currently working at an IT company where she is in charge of product planning in the new business development office. In 2023, she co-chaired the “Aikata Lab”, which conducts product development and research for healthy relationships and is expanding the scope of her range of activities.

 

Breakout Session Facilitators

• Yoichi Suzuki
  Yoichi Suzuki is the Executive Board Director of Wake Up Japan. As a student, he participated in Model United Nations, United Nations Student Federation of Japan, and Rotary International, and made policy proposals to the G8. After graduating from Gakushuin University, he worked on environmental awareness activities for youth in Malaysia. In 2009, he joined Oxfam, an international NGO, to work on youth and movement building.　The number of signatures, which had previously been in the hundreds, increased to the 3,000 range within a few years. In 2014, he founded PowerShift Japan, and in 2016, Wake Up Japan with members who were high school students at the time. In 2017, he became a Youth Engagement Advisor for the international NGO Free the Children. He has traveled extensively in Japan and abroad to engage with diverse social movements, including Black Lives Matter, and to share what he has learned with Japanese society. His main areas of interest include leadership development, campaign implementation, community organizing, social change theory, civic education, education and bias, self-care, wellbeing, and interfaith dialogue.
• Anna Nagamine
  Anna Nagamine was born and raised in Okinawa and educated in both American and Japanese schools. Her parents emigrated and started a family in the US, but moved back to Okinawa before she was born. Anna is the Manager of the Business Development Section at OIST Innovation at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). Anna’s work involves developing industry partnerships, supporting entrepreneurship, and incubating startups in the region. She was an integral part of the team that established the first OIST startup (biotechnology) in 2014. Her current team manages an incubator in Okinawa and the first international startup accelerator program. Anna graduated from Chuo University, Faculty of Policy Studies, and holds a MA degree from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Asian Studies Program (East-West Center Obuchi Student Scholarship recipient). She was selected for the 2017 TOMODACHI-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program and has participated in the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program (The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation). She loves to travel, surf, and be an auntie to her nephews and niece.
• Yuhka Mera
  Yuhka Mera was born in the U.S. to Issei parents. He attended public schools in the U.S. & Japan and attended university in Massachusetts. After graduating with a Masters in Microwave filter design he continued to spend time in the US and Japan as a business professional. Yuhka has over 25 years of experience in worldwide business and technology development. His success as the Site Technical Director and Global Technical Film Specialist at 3M Optical Systems Division led to his next role as the Global Design Center Senior Director at Synaptics. During his time at Synaptics, he was instrumental in the development of large size touch screens along with the release of the first touch integrated display driver IC which revolutionized the touch IC market.Building off of his extensive experience in the United States, Korea, Taiwan and China, he is now working as a consultant and helping companies outside Japan develop and expand their business in Japan and Asia.
• Norie Iwamoto
  Norie Iwamoto is the Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Aarata LLC and is the U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) Internal Auditor since 2022. Since joining PwC in 2005, Ms. Iwamoto has been engaged in numerous Financial Instruments and Exchange Act audits and statutory audits, including accounting audits in Japanese GAAP, US GAAP, and IFRS, and J-SOX audits for domestic listed and private companies and foreign-affiliated domestic companies. Ms. Iwamoto also provides advisory services such as IPO preparation, internal controls construction, and IFRS introduction.From 2010 to 2012, Ms. Iwamoto was seconded to PwC Australia (Melbourne), where she engaged in accounting audits of local companies and advisory services on accounting and taxation for Japanese companies. In particular, Ms. Iwamoto specializes in technology, entertainment, and semiconductor industries.Ms. Iwamoto is a Japanese Certified Public Accountant and completed her B.A. in Economics at the University of Tokyo.
• Miyuki Tani
  Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Capital K.K.
  Miyuki Tani is Executive Director of Morgan Stanley Capital K.K. and is a U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) Board Member since 2020. Ms. Tani joined Morgan Stanley in 2008 (Panorama Hospitality K.K. a hotel asset management company for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds), where she was Chief Financial Officer – Asia Pacific. Ms. Tani is currently responsible for the implementation of the digital transformation throughout Asia asset management platform.  Ms. Tani has played in senior management roles in the non-performing loan and real estate investments industry, since 1998.  1990 – 1997, Ms. Tani lived in Chicago IL and started her career at Arthur Andersen Chicago Office as an auditor. Ms. Tani is an U.S. Certified Public Accountant (IL) and completed her Master of Business Administration in International Business Strategy, at Hitotsubashi University Business School, School of International Corporate Strategy, Tokyo Japan.
• Kyohei Shimizu
  Sales Manager, Shutoken 6 Agency
  Prudential Financial Insurance Co., Ltd.
  Kyohei Shimizu joined Prudential Life Insurance Co., Ltd. as Life Planner in May 2012. In April 2019, he became Sales Manager.
  

 

 

 

Reception

• Suzanne Basalla (President and CEO, U.S.-Japan Council)
  
  Suzanne Basalla is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S.-Japan Council (USJC).Suzanne is also a member of the Japan Society of Northern California Board of Directors and Special Advisor to Career Girls. She rejoined USJC from her role as Chief of Staff at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a Silicon Valley-headquartered subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation that develops automated driving, robotics, and other human amplification technology for Toyota.Prior to TRI, Suzanne had served from 2012-2017 under USJC’s Founder, Irene Hirano Inouye, as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She helped lead USJC through people-to-people connections, with a focus on investing in next-generation leaders through the public-private TOMODACHI Initiative, which was established in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.Suzanne is a former officer of the U.S. Navy and her assignments included duty in Japan, the Pentagon, and Diego Garcia. Following her naval career, she was Director for Japan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC. She subsequently was appointed Senior Advisor to John Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, working at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from 2010-2012. In that capacity, she supported Ambassador Roos on the full portfolio of security, economic, political and cultural issues in the U.S.-Japan relationship. Suzanne graduated from the University of Virginia and received a master’s degree in Asian Studies from George Washington University. She spent two years at Keio University as an Olmsted Scholar. In 2008, she received the inaugural Ryozo Kato Award for service to the U.S.-Japan Alliance. In 2021 she received the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence.
• Raymond F. Greene
  Deputy Chief of Mission Raymond F. Greene served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, U.S. Embassy Tokyo from July 17, 2021 until January 22, 2022. Prior to this assignment, he was the Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Mr. Greene is a member of the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service and has spent his entire 25-year career advancing U.S. diplomatic, economic, and security engagement with the Indo-Pacific region. In Washington, Mr. Greene was Director for Japan and East Asian Economic Affairs at National Security Council and Director of the Office of Economic Policy in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. In the latter capacity, Mr. Greene was elected as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum’s Economic Committee.Overseas, Mr. Greene served as U.S. Consul General in Chengdu, China and Okinawa, Japan. Earlier assignments included Chief of the Political-Military Affairs Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Deputy Chief of the Political Section at AIT Taipei, and as a political officer in Tokyo and Manila. Mr. Greene was the first Baker-Kato Diplomatic Exchange Fellow at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo. He also was assigned as a State Department Faculty Advisor at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.Mr. Greene holds a B.A. (Government/Japanese) and M.P.M. (International Security and Economic Policy) from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the Ryozo Kato Award for Advancing the U.S.-Japan Alliance, the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy (Taiwan), and several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. Before joining the State Department, Mr. Greene was a researcher at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC and spent a year in Yokohama on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program. Mr. Greene speaks Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Mr. Greene is married to the former Yawen Ko.
• Jonathan Graybill (President & COO, Prudential Holdings of Japan SVP, Prudential International Insurance)
  Jonathan Graybill is President and Chief Operating Officer for Prudential Holdings of Japan (PHJ), a business unit of Prudential Financial, Inc.   PHJ is the Holding Company responsible for supporting three operating companies, including Prudential Life Insurance Co., Ltd (POJ), Gibraltar Life Insurance Co.,Ltd (GIB), and Prudential Gibraltar Financial Life Insurance Co., Ltd (PGFL). Prior to moving to Tokyo in April 2022, Jonathan lived in Singapore where he served as the Regional President for Prudential’s businesses in Southeast Asia.   In addition, over his thirty-five-year career at Prudential, he has held leadership positions in various Operations and Technology functions in U.S. Annuities, Retirement Services, and Individual Life. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Business Administration from Temple University.
• Irina Menshikova
  Irina Menshikova became president of Amway Japan in March 2023. A native of Kazakhstan, she is the first female president in Amway Japan’s 44-year history. She has a proven track record of managing business crises and geopolitical risk in a variety of global enterprises.
  She started her professional career at Philip Morris in Kazakhstan, subsequently moving to Oriflame Kazakhstan, a Swedish direct-selling company, where she served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Sales Officer (CSO).
  She joined Amway in 2010. She has held a series of leadership positions in the company, including Director of Sales, Vice President of Sales and Operations, and Managing Director, all for Amway Russia, before becoming Managing Director for Central Asia (Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan).
  In 2022-23, she oversaw Amway’s withdrawal from the Russia market while safeguarding the wellbeing of Amway employees in Ukraine and maintaining business continuity – a lifeline for those Ukrainians depending on their Amway distributorships for income.
  Ms. Menshikova holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the State Finance Academy of Kazakhstan and an Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance from the Manchester Business School (U.K.).
  She is married with two sons. She enjoys diving, tennis and skiing, and is keen on yoga and mental health.
• Akira Muto
  Assistant Minister (Ambassador), Director-General, Foreign Service Training Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
  MUTO Akira was born in New Delhi in 1960, and graduated from the Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo in 1985. With over 25 years of experience in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan with background in Russia and policy planning, MUTO served as Director of the Russian Division, and Deputy Director General (Ambassador) of the European Affairs Bureau in charge of former Soviet Union states, as well as Director of the Policy Coordination Division. Additionally, MUTO served as Director of the Free Trade Agreement and Economic Partnership Agreement Division and Director of the Fourth Division of Intelligence and Analysis Service. As a diplomat, his previous overseas assignments include　Washington D.C., Moscow, Boston (Consul General) and Los Angeles (Consul General).  In recent years, he served as Cabinet Secretariat Councillor of the National Security Secretariat and engaged in various international security affairs. His research interest covers strategic relations among US-Japan Alliance, Russia and China in the Asia-Pacific region.

Closing Remarks Speakers

• Yuuki Sato TOMODACHI Summer 2016 Softbank Leadership Program (2016)

Yuuki Sato is the alumnus of the TOMODACHI Summer 2016 Softbank Leadership Program. He became interested in a farmers’ market that he visited during the program in the United States and was involved in activities to implement a farmers’ market while growing his own vegetables back in Japan. In the process, he became interested in community development from the residents’ side, but he thought he needed to know what kind of organization and role the government plays in order to do so, so he entered Fukushima University’s School of Public Administration and Policy Studies. While still in school, he began to tell stories about the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that struck his hometown Fukushima, so he focused his studies on reconstruction administration. After graduating from the university, he started working for an educational non-profit in Fukushima and is involved in teaching product development at high schools.

 

• Miku Hayashida TOMODACHI Story Jam for Youth with Disabilities (2021)

Miku Hayashida is an alumna of the TOMODACHI Story Jam for Youth with Disabilities 2021. While in college, she studied social work and self-advocacy as a person with disabilities in Japan and the United States. Currently, while working as a social worker in the field of supporting employment for people with disabilities, she is also actively involved in advocacy activities to share her story as a wheelchair user in various fields, based on the concept of “creating a society where people can continue to be who they are, whether they have a disability or not.”

 

 

Music Performers

• Shun Kumagai TOMODACHI Suntory Music Scholarship (2014)
  
  Shun Kumagai is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Suntory Music Scholarship. In 2014, he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the United States. He graduated from college in 2016 with a Bachelor of Music and enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music in 2017. Since his stay in the U.S., he has performed at events attended by former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, was invited to perform at the private residence of Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, and has performed at ceremonies and receptions related to the U.S.-Japan relationship. He has performed energetically in the U.S., including with world-renowned bassist Dave Holland. In 2019, he received a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music and moved his base to Japan.  Currently, he performs as a guest performer at corporate events and ceremonies, and holds his own concerts “BEBOP EXPRESS” and “BOP CASTLE” sponsored by the Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. and Suntory Holdings Limited. He has held high-profile jazz concerts with a total attendance of more than 4,000 people.

 

• Max Mullowney
  Max Mullowney is a USJC member and is a composer from Boston, MA. He moved to Tokyo in the summer of 2017 after graduating from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Jazz Composition. His career in Japan began in the advertising industry creating music for ad campaigns for many national and international brands. He currently works in the Japanese video game industry as a composer. When not working he likes to take long walks with his wife and play video games.