加藤 幹也

About

Joined E-Access Ltd. in 2001 as a member of its first cohort of new graduates, in charge of broadband sales and marketing, and experienced its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market. After joining SoftBank BB Corp. in 2004, he was in charge of planning the IPTV business "BBTV" service and of external relations in the copyright broadcasting field. From 2006 he concurrently served in the President's Office of the holding company. From June 2008 he was seconded to the Media and Content Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, in charge of promoting the content industry from the technology side. In 2010 he returned to SoftBank and was seconded to Ustream Asia Corp., in charge of Ustream's service planning and copyright clearance division. In 2011, following the Great East Japan Earthquake, he returned to the President's Office and was in charge of promoting SoftBank's renewable energy business and electricity retail business. In 2015 he joined Environment and Energy Investment Co., Ltd. (株式会社環境エネルギー投資), where he handled investment operations at an energy-themed VC fund. He executed investments in a total of 12 companies, with 3 achieving IPOs. In 2019 he was hired through an open recruitment for the position of section chief in charge of promoting digital shift at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and was in charge of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Society 5.0 (smart city) policy. In 2022 he joined DRONE FUND, mainly engaged in investment operations. In 2025 he took up positions as Specially Appointed Professor at the Startup Headquarters of the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System and as Specially Appointed Professor at the Institute for Academic and Industrial Collaboration Promotion, Nagoya University, in charge of the startup development support division.

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