Jiro Kokuryo
Vice-President of Keio University, Professor of Faculty of Policy Management

Professor Jiro Kokuryo, Vice-President of Keio University, is concurrently a professor at the Faculty of Policy Management. He joined Keio in 1993 as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was appointed professor in 2000. He served as Executive Director of the Keio Research Institute at SFC (2005-2009) and Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management (2009-2013), before being appointed Vice-President for International Collaboration and Education in 2013. Vice-President Kokuryo graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1982 and acquired a Doctor of Business Administration (1992) from Harvard Business School while an employee of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (1982-1993). His major publications in Japanese include "Open Architecture Strategy," Diamond Inc. (1999), and "Business Strategy in an Onymous Economy," Nikkei Publishing Inc. (2013).

Daisuke YANASAWA
Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Class of 1996
CEO of KAYAC Inc.

In 1998 Daisuke Yanazawa founded KAYAC Inc. together with a friend he knew since University days. As Kamakura's only company whose stock is listed on the stock exchange, KAYAC Inc. is spreading their original contents over websites, smartphone applications and social game market from their Kamakura office. Based on the philosophy of being a "Fun Corporation", KAYAC Inc. is always challenging itself to create a new style of business with a unique human resource management system (On-a-Roll Salary System, Smile Points Salary System, All-together Human Resource Department Plan) and working style (On-the-Move Office).

Eriko YAMAGUCHI
Faculty of Policy Management, Class of 2004
Chief Design Officer of MOTHERHOUSE

After an internship at an international organization in Washington, Eriko Yamaguchi entered the Master's Program of the Development Studies at the Graduate School of BRAC University in Bangladesh. After she lived in Bangladesh for two years she moved back to Japan and founded MOTHERHOUSE, driven by the strong wish to create a brand which connects developing countries with the rest of the world. Currently bags and miscellaneous fashion goods, which are designed and produced in Bangladesh and Nepal, are sold in over twenty shops in Tokyo and other cities. She was nominated as Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2008.

Kazuhide SEKIYAMA

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Class of 2005
Graduate School of Media and Governance, Class of 2007
Board member and Representative Executive Officer of Spiber Inc.

In 2002 Kazuhide Sekiyama chose Keio University's Institute for Advanced Bioscience in Tsuruoka Town, Yamagata Prefecture as base for his research and started his research regarding human-made spider silk in September 2004. To realize his research project he entered graduate school. While still being enrolled as Ph.D. student he founded Spiber Inc. in September 2007 together with a friend he knew since his university days. His company aims to industrialize its product as world-first of his kind in cooperation with industrial, academic and governmental institutions.