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Dr. Shuji Honjo, Managing Director of Honjo International, a business consulting firm in Tokyo, delivers strategies of new business development, marketing and technology. He is also Visiting Professor at Tama Graduate School of Business. He advises large corporations and entrepreneurial firms such as NetService Ventures Group, 500 Startups, and Kyodo PR.

He was SVP at Lehman Brothers Japan for principal investment. Formerly he founded and represented the Tokyo office of General Atlantic LLC, an IT-focused growth equity firm. Prior to GA, he was Assistant to Chairman and Group Strategy Manager of CSK/SEGA Group, a leader in IT solutions and digital entertainment in Japan. He has extensive business consulting experiences with Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo and Computer Sciences Corporation in California.

Dr. Honjo has a Ph.D. in International Studies from Waseda University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from the University of Tokyo.