clients and partners
For more than 25 years we work as partners with CEOs and top management of many leading companies, from large global multi-nationals, to family owned hidden champions and technology, pharma and medical device ventures.
Past clients include:
Multi-nationals
- SIEMENS
- Intel
- Ericsson
- Qualcomm
- Alcatel Lucent
- ABB
- IKEA
- large automotive OEM
- SONY
- one of the largest toy and education multinationals
- and more
.
Japanese corporations
- NTT Communications
- Asahi Glass
- and more
.
Industrial
- SCETI
- Genscape
- Landis+Gyr
- Örlikon, Balzers, UNAXIS
- YLE OY Finnish Broadcasting Corporation
- Oscilloquartz (at that time part of the SWATCH Group)
- National Instruments
- Reichle De Massari
- Spellmann
- Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona
- Sick AG
- a US automotive importer
- EfI (Electronics for Imaging)
- European functional building materials manufacturing group
- CUBIC
- SCHOTT
- Schweizer Bundesbahnen (Swiss National Railways)
- and more
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FInancial industry
- CLSA and investment fund managers globally (New York, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Glasgow, Frankfurt, Paris)
- For the Japan fund (Portfolio Manager + Board of Directors) of one of the largest: advise on investment paths and opportunities in Japan’s venture ecosystem, and introduce several of Japan’s top VCs)
- Fidelity
- Merrill Lynch
- debt insurance specialist company on the risks of the SoftBank acquisition of Vodafone-Japan
- Shinsei Bank
- CITI Group subsidiary (for a mobile banking cybersecurity project)
- about 100 investment fund managers: analyst, strategy and due diligence projects
- Investor AB (Sweden’s largest investment group): advise CFOs of several major Investor ABs portfolio companies on business opportunities in Japan
- and more
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IT, Software, SaaS
- Marketo
- Zendesk
- Sitecore
- National Instruments
- and more
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Telecom industry
- Ericsson
- TeliaSonera
- NTT Communications
- Qualcomm
- Oscilloquartz
- Deutsche Telekom
- SPRINT
- ETRI Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (S-Korea)
- Swisscom
- and more
.
Pharma and medical devices
- SCETI (a radio pharma diagnostics multinational)
- a European dental diagnostic equipment venture
- a UK based venture developing cell therapies for immune system diseases
- and more
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Government
- European Union Delegation to Japan
- Embassy of Canada in Japan
- Embassy of Sweden, Invest in Sweden Agency
- Embassy of Denmark
- The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
- TEKES: Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
- and more
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Briefings for political and industry leaders
Briefings for political and industry leaders on Japan’s technology and innovation sectors
- Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany https://www.eurotechnology.com/2005/04/03/briefing-the-president-of-the-federal-republic-of-germany-horst-koehler/
- Dr Ewa Björling, Trade Minister of Sweden https://www.fasol.com/2013/11/22/dr-ewa-bjorling/
- Joe Oliver, Energy Minister of Canada
- Mme Nicole Fontaine, Vice-Minister for Economy of France
- CEO, CTO, CFO and top executives of Finnish telecom operator Telia-Sonera on “what is the telecom operator of the future, based on Japan’s telecom sector developments”
- Top executives of Finnish broadcasting corporation YLE on Japan’s media sector
- Delegation of the European Union to Japan: advise commerce and technology attachés of EU Embassies in Tokyo on Japan vs Europe in fixed and mobile broad band
- and many more
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We build communities
Ludwig Boltzmann Forum – leadership forum
Trinity in Japan (Trinity College Cambridge, Cambridge University)
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