Advisors

Hajime Emura
has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in Body R&D department as well as vehicle planning department.
He worked 3 years in the UK and for 8 years in the USA.
Yoshimasa Ishiguro
has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in Body R&D department as well as vehicle planning department.
Later he moved to Shiroki Corporation and subsequently to Aisin, and has been responsible for R&D of various body functional and exterior components.
Based on above, he has wide and strong relationship with Toyota Japan and US technical centers, Toyota related companies and Toyota Tier1 suppliers.
He worked in the US for 8 years and more.
Tetsuro Hitoshi
has been in charge of HR, Purchasing and new energy business development at Toyota Motor Corporation.
He worked at Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd as an executive director, as well as senior vice president at NUMMI, Toyota’s California operation.
His last career is president at Toyota Energy Solution before his retirement.
He has wide network with Toyota group suppliers.
Yo Tokuda
Graduated from Machining technology at Osaka university, joined Toyota Motor Corporation
He has been working at instrumental panel, seat, interior and HVAC design and development for more than 30 years.
He then joined Toyota Boshoku Corporation and is responsible for plastic component R&D for 7 years at Bangkok, Thailand.
Junzo (Charlie) Ukai
Currently he is Professor of Nagoya Univ.- Institute of Innovation for Future Society and working for Semiconductors business as material R&D manager. And furthermore, PhD candidate in Nagoya University, working for Carbon surface improvement mainly for Li ion Battery (2024/3).
He has been in charge of almost all kind of material for automotive since he joined Toyota motor corp. for 38 years, which includes metal, non-metal, plastics and materials for HEVE such as motor investor and battery.
E-MBA degree at Michigan University in 2003、TOEIC 910
Toshiyuki Asano
Joined Toyota Motor Corporation after graduating from the master course in mechanical engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology.
He has been in the R&D area ever since and experienced in body engineering area such as Body-in-white and exterior components.
He has overseas assignment in the UK, Turkey, and China Guangzhou for total of 12 years, therefore understands culture difference very well.
Eto Toyohiko
After completed master course in engineering at Kyushu university, Eto joined Toyota Motor in 1980. Experienced in various area of engineering, such as Body structure, EV and HEV development in Toyota Motor, continued battery development and production at Prime Earth EV energy and at Kyoho SS.
Mr Eto has been in battery development field for more than 30 years and has numbers of Intellectual Property.
Hasegawa Yasunori
Is graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Business Engineering Department.
He has worked in the field of interior R&D at Toyota Motor Corporation for about 25 years.
He then moved to China Minth group and served as general manager of the R&D center and later president of Japan branch office.
Currently he runs his family company called G-cube, which is real estate management and consulting.
Nobuyuki Shigeoka
He has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in vehicle testing, body design and development, and design quality innovation.
After leaving the company, he started a DQC (design and quality consulting) company.
His areas of expertise are system development for functional body design parts, building quality improvement processes, and teaching proactive prevention as an A-class expert of DRBFM.
He worked in North America for 3 years
Masayuki Okada
Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Science and technology,, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
After joining Toyota Motor Corporation, he was stationed in the United States, Belgium, and China.
He has been involved in the establishment of technical centers in various locations in the world.
He is particularly familiar with China (staying there for over 25 years),
and in addition to issues related to establishing a development of Technical center and offices, management issues such as office construction, base relocation,
withdrawal, related employment issues for Chinese people, costs, rationalization, etc. He has experience solving problems in a wide range of fields.
He has a wealth of experience in dealing with technical surveys, which is important in automobile development, as well as Chinese vehicle certification and CCC parts certification.