Professor in charge of Entrepreneurship, growth strategy & creation of sustainable businesses, and family business in Japan.
Before joining Waseda University as a faculty member in 2012, Hirokazu had been working as a Venture Capitalist (20 years and present), securities analyst and strategy consultant (10 years), visiting professor in the MBA courses of many universities (12 years).
Co-founding partner of Global Venture Capital.,Inc(GVC) and is managing partner of funds I, II, III, IV, and V. GVC is an independent, Tokyo-based partnership in the business of managing venture capital funds.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Chuo University (1984), a Ph.D. from Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies Ph.D Program (2006) and is a Japanese certified public accountant (Konin Kaikeishi) and a member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan.