Japan's Top Business Interviews Podcast By Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo Japan

Previously President, Faurecia Howa Interiors Japan. Masters in Management, Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership D.E.A. Engineering, Universidade de Vigo, M.S. Degree Water Engineering, Polytech Montipellier

Alex Zoboli, is the Managing Director of Cornerstone Recruitment, a company he founded with Matt Nicholls four years ago.  Previously Alex was a senior leader at RGF in Japan, working together with Matt, part of the Recruit  Group.  Before that he was working in a recruitment company in the UK.

Matt Nicholls, is the President of Cornerstone Recruitment a company he founded with Alex Zoboli four years ago.  Previously Matt was the President of RGF in Japan, part of the Recruit  Group.  Before that he was running his own small recruitment company in the UK.

Mr. Mizusawa started his career in HR for Sanyo, GE in the USA, GE Healthcare back in Japan and was Director, Compensation & Benefits at Abbott Japan Group.  He joined Stryker as the Senior Director of Human Resources, before becoming the Vice-President of the MedSurg Business Unit, then Vice-President & General Manager Japan of Orthopaedics and Medsurg, becoming President and Representative Direc...

Previously he was the Director of Operations, Japan and South Korea and General Manager Oakwood Suites, Yokohama.  He was area Vice-President for the Rotana Hotel Management Corporation PJSCI Abu Dhabi and General Manager of the Hilton Hotels in Tokyo, Nagoya, Odaiba, Fukuoka, Otaru and Zurich Airport.

Masayo Nagai is the Chairwoman of APCO Worldwide Asia. She started her career working on policy for the government as a legislative aide. After studying at Columbia University she moved across to the PR industry joining Inoue Public Relations. She later became the Senior Director at the Japan Public Relations Institute before becoming President at Propeller Communications.

Naosuke Goto is the fourth generation to run the Goto Florists company in Japan.  Like his father, he went to the USA and Europe to study flower design and brought that knowledge back to Japan, making the business highly successful.  The main store in Roppongi is a landmark in Tokyo and they have many shops in five star Hotels in Tokyo.

Morgan Laughlin, Managing Director, PGIM Real Estate, Japan.  Morgan has had a stellar career as Managing Director Asia Pacific for the Grosvenor Group, Regional Managing Director for the Royal Bank of Scotland, Head of RREEF non-Japan Asia at Deutsche Bank and Managing Director Bankers Trust Company.  He is a graduate of Columbia University in Latin American Studies.

  Adam Hall, Country Manager, Joseph Joseph Japan Prior to becoming head of Japan for Joseph Joseph, Adam Hall was Japan Country Manager for Weber-Stephen Products.   He is a graduate of Auckland University of Technology.

John Kirch, beqom Japan Head   Vice President of Sales, Uppsala Security East Asia Regional Director, Darktrace Independent Consultant, Nominum Vice President-International & President Japan, Penta Security Systems Director - Asia Pacific & Japan Director , Aerohive Networks Director-Japan , Ubiquity Software Independent Consultant , CyberGuard Regional Vice President-Asia/Pacific & President-Japa...

Kentaro Kiso, President Barclays Securities Japan previously worked in London for JP Morgan for six years followed by joining Barclays UK and working there for over 12 years. He is a graduate of Tokyo University.

Hiroaki Mori, President McCann Erikson Japan Previously, Mr. Mori was COO for TBWA/Hakuhodo China.  He is a graduate of Waseda University.

Matthias Sutter is the General Manager Shangri-La Tokyo and Representative Director Shangri-La Hotels Japan. Previously he had been the General Manager for Marriott International Hotels in Seoul, Singapore, Phuket.   He has a Master's degree from the GSBA Zurich International Business School

Hiroo Murota is the Vice President, General Manager, Representative Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific Japan.  Previously he was Representative Director of Siemens Healthcare Japan.  He is a law graduate of Tokyo University and has an MBA from Northwestern University-Kellogg School Of Management

Leo Keeley is the President and CEO of B2B Sales. He has held a number of posts here in Japan, inlcuding Vice-President Asian Pacific and Japan for Ariba, President of Japan InfoTech, President of Platinum Japan and President of Dunn and Bradstreet Software Japan.  He has a BA from Bentley University and an MBA from Suffolk University.

Michael Bobrove is a founder and CEO of HealthyTOKYO, which has pioneered the introduction of CBD oil into the Japanese market.  He previously was Managing Partner of Bucatani, a medical device marketing and distribution company in Tokyo and a Senior Parrtner in the Mikan Group, which provides advisory services for internationl expansion.  He graduated from Antioch College and has an MBA from the...

  Originally from the Bronx, Cairo was a VP and Account Director for Data Solutions in New York.  He came to Japan in 2009, becoming the General Manager for RAPP, later becoming the Managing Director for DDB in Japan in 2012.  In 2015 he started relativ*

Takeshi Fujiwara Ex-President BBruan Aesculap Japan.   He started work as an industrial engineer, later joined a second Japanese company who sent him to Germany, where he worked for nine years.  He moved back to Japan working for a Swedish company called Gambro Japan, later becoming President.  After over ten years there he briefly became the President of Molnlycke Health Care Japan, before joinin...

Carl Eklund has been in Japan since 1979.  He has had many high profile positions in Japan, including President Volvo Japan, President Hagglunds Japan, President Denison Japan, President Lafarge Svenska Hoganas,  and has been President of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Japan.  Currently he is President of Hoganas Japan.

David Macdonald was originally a JET in Japan in 1995.  He joined NTT Docomo in 1999 and then joined Walt Disney Internet Group Asia Pacific in 2004.  He moved to YouTube Japan in 2009 becoming Head of YouTube Spaces Asia Pacific in 2014.  He became President of Discovery Japan in 2018 and President and Representative Officer, Discovery Japan GK in 2020. David mentioned the speaker who got him on...

Established in 1892, Obayashi Corporation a $5 billion listed enterprise, is one of the top 5 construction companies in Japan. Obayashi has 86 subsidiaries and 26 affiliated companies in Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and North America.

Mr. Hiraga initially worked in banking in Japan for ten years, in what has now become Mizuho, before he went to the US to study for his MBA. He then joined Marsh Broker and from 1991 worked in Germany. From there he covered a large number of European countries targeting Japanese companies active there. Five years later he was sent to the Headquarters in New York to cover Japanese companies active...

Tae Ho Kim was previously President of Nihon Inter Electronics Corporation from May 2013 -2017, before becoming President of ARRK Corporation in 2017.  He joined en world Japan as President in 2022.  He graduated from Pomona College in Economics.

Yuko Furuichi is the President and CEO of Comexposium Japan.  In 2007 she was a media personality and talent for BonaPro Agency and in 2009 became the Emcee for Pokemon Programming.  She joined CyberAgent in 2011 as an Account Leader.  She joined Comexposium as an Event Manager in 2013 working her way up to the Presidency in 2019.  She has a BA Law degree from Keio University.