TEAM

DR. HIDEKI IIJIMA

Co-CEO/COO

• Lecturer, the Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki University Doctor or Engineering
• Ph.D. in Management of Innovative Management

• 1977 Graduated Waseda University (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology).
• 1979 Graduated the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Waseda University, and received M.Eng.
• 1979 Joined Asahi Kasei Industries, Ltd. (Basic Research Laboratories of Textiles, Polymers, and Basic Technology), and served as Senior Research Scientist and Principal Research Scientist.
• 1998 Received D. Eng. from Kanazawa University.
• 2011 Graduated the Graduate School of Cultural Policy, Kyoto Tachibana University, and received M.A. in Cultural Policy Studies.
• 2019 Graduated the Graduate School of Doshisha University, and received Ph.D. in Technology and Innovative Management.
• 2019 Joined Orbio as CEO / COO.
• 2021 Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki University (Lecture on Molecular Transport)

DR. EIICHI YAMAGUCHI

Co-CEO/CTO

• Professor, Ritsumeikan University　Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
• Doctor of Science,Vice-President of The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs

• 1977 Graduated The University of Tokyo (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science).
• 1979 Graduated the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, and received M.Sc
• 1979 Joined NTT Public Corporation (now NTT Corporation), and served as Senior Research Scientist and Principal Research Scientist of NTT Basic Research Laboratories
• 1984 Received D.Sc. from The University of Tokyo.
• 1984-1985 Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame, USA.
• 1993~1996 Invited as Research Scientist, IMRA Europe, France.
• 1999 Joined the 21st Century Public Policy Institute, Keidanren, and served as Principal Research Fellow and Executive Research Fellow.
• 2003 Appointed as Professor, Doshisha University (Business School and Department of Technology and Innovative Management at the Graduate School).
• 2008-2009 Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2014 Appointed as Professor, Kyoto University (the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Survivability).
• 2018 Founded ORBIO Corporation, and currently CEO / CTO.
• 2020 Appointed as Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University and Professor, Ritsumeikan University.

SATOSHI KOGA

CSO

• Venture Capitalist; Fellow and Lecturer, Kyoto University;
• Visiting Professor, Hiroshima Prefectural University;Visiting Professor, Ryukoku University

• 1981 Graduated Waseda University (Faculty of Political Science and Economics).
• 1981 Joined Monsanto (now Bayer)
• 1989 Joined Citibank, and served as Head of Product Development
• 1995 served as Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company
• 1997 Founded Will Capital Management, and appointed as CEO
• 2001 Served as Director of Anicom Holdings Co., Ltd. and other companies, Visiting Professor at Kyushu University.
• 2019 Appointed as CEO of Aristotle Partners.
• 2020 Appointed as Chief Strategy Officer of ORBIO Corporation.

DR. KATSUYA YAMADA

CMO

• ORBIO-Chaired Professor, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine,
• Ph.D. in Medicine, Councilor of the Physiological Society of Japan

• 1986 Graduated from Shizuoka University (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science).
• 1988 Graduated from the Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, and received M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry.
• 1992 Completed Doctoral program, the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Physiology).
• 1992 Research Assistant, Akita University School of Medicine (Department of Physiology).
• 2000 Received Ph.D. in Medicine from Akita University.
• 2001 Lecturer of Physiology at Akita University School of Medicine
• 2005 Associate Professor of Physiology at Hirosaki University (Faculty of Medicine)
• 2007 Associate Professor of Physiology at Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine
• 2008 The Project Leader of JST Grant “Science and Technology Incubation Program in Advanced Regions” in FY2008-2010, $720,000, AMED Grant “Collaborative Research Based on Industrial Demand Program” in FY2011-2016, $1,640,000, and so on.
• 2021 Appointed as ORBIO-chaired Professor (Department of Molecular Transport), Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine.
• 2021 Appointed as Chief Medical Officer of ORBIO Corporation.

DR.KOICHIRO OSHIMA

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

• 1970 Graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 1972 Received M.S. in Industrial Chemistry from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 1975 Received D.Eng. in Industrial Chemistry from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 1975-1977 postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
• 1986 Associate professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 1993 Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 2003-2005 Councilor of the Kyoto University.
• 2008 Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
• 2010 Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University.
• 2013 Specially Appointed Professor of Kyoto University.
• 2014 Vice President of Kyoto University.
• 2018 Retired from Kyoto University in March 2018.
• His research interests include organic reaction chemistry. Received the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Award in 2005. Received the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2007.

YOSHINORI YOKOYAMA

Social System Designer

Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Hiroshima University. Outside Director of ORIX, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. He is responsible for planning and promoting the University of Tokyo Executive Management Program (EMP). Born in Hiroshima Prefecture. After graduating from Hiroshima University High School, he graduated from the University of Tokyo Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate School of Management.

After working for Kunio Maekawa & Associates and Davis Brody & Associates, he joined McKinsey & Company in 1975, and served as Director of McKinsey & Company in 1987 and as General Manager of McKinsey & Company’s Tokyo office in 1989 before retiring from McKinsey & Company in June 2002. After that, he served as a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), a part-time auditor at the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ), and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (GSIR), Hitotsubashi University, before assuming his current position.