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: market entry preparations and strategy into Japan’s environmental technology sector
- Intel: mobile internet
- Ericsson: Japan market research and SoftBank
- Qualcomm: Japan market research
- Alcatel Lucent
- ABB
- IKEA, digitalization and customer relationship management (CRM) in Japan
- large automotive OEM: mobile internet and cars
- SONY: interfacing European SONY with Japan
- Google: market research- mobile games Japan
- Japanese automotive parts multinational
- one of the largest toy and education multinationals- multi-months project on ‘what is holding back our growth in Japan’ concluded by a workshop in Tokyo for CEO, CTO, CFO and about 35 strong global executive management team
- and more
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Japanese corporations
- NTT Communications’s global M&A team: M&A, investment and acquisition strategy for all of Europe, entrance strategy into 17 industry verticals where data have high value (pharma R&D, logistics, automotive R&D, financial industry, insurance etc)
- Asahi Glass
- Automotive parts multinational
- and more
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Industrial
- SCETI: acquisition of a pharmaceutical factory in Japan
- Genscape: technical preparations for market entry to Japan
- Landis+Gyr: technical preparations for market entry to Japan
- Örlikon, Balzers, UNAXIS: strategy for growth in Japan
- YLE OY Finnish Broadcasting Corporation: Japan’s media industries
- Oscilloquartz (at that time part of the SWATCH Group): strategy for Japan’s mobile phone base station sector
- National Instruments
- Reichle De Massari: market expansion in Japan’s data center market
- Spellmann: (1) create concrete new market opportunities (2) analyze competitors (3) market research
- Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona: organize conference & trade show for around 10 Japanese software companies in Barcelona
- Sick AG: R&D project in GaN electronic devices
- a US automotive importer: organize supply of Japanese speciality vehicles for US market
- EfI (Electronics for Imaging)
- European functional building materials manufacturing group: acquisition of part of Japanese building materials group
- CUBIC
- SCHOTT: R&D in Japan
- 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 global investment banks: advise on investment paths and opportunities in Japan’s venture ecosystem, and introduce several of Japan’s top VCs). At project conclusion we organized conference with Board of Directors, Fund Manager, and representatives of leading Japanese VCs.
- Fidelity: analyst work on smart phone industry market
- 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: market entry preparations for Japan
- Zendesk: go-to-market and growth strategy for Japan
- Sitecore: growth in Japan
- National Instruments: growth in Japan
- 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
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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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