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Mr. Hara is the Group Chairman and CEO of Defta Partners, where he has been responsible for assisting portfolio companies build international business alliances that aim to generate substantial revenue growth particularly in Japan and Asia since its inception in 1985. He served as Chairman of the Board of Oplus Technologies (the leader of chip processing LCD and plasma display; merged with Intel in 2005). He is currently Chairman of the Board at XVD Corporation (world leader of the HDTV codec engine). He also started creating wireless broad band service companies aiming at distant learning education and tele-medicine in least developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. His first project started in Bangladesh in October of 2005.
Mr. Hara has also been active in the public sector. He served on the boards of the San Francisco Opera and Zoo is a current board member of the University of San Francisco, Tokyo Foundation, and Hara Research Foundation. In 2003, Mr. Hara received the National Leadership Award and was named Honorary Co-Chairman of the Republican Business Advisory Council in the US. He received a L.L.B from Keio University in 1975 and an MS from the School of Engineering at Stanford University in 1981. | 