Independent Director Masazumi Ishii is founder and Managing Director of AZCA, Inc., a professional services firm based in Menlo Park, California, specializing in Japan and Asia Pacific corporate development for high technology ventures. He has over 25 years of experience in international business and high technology. Mr. Ishii is also a Managing Director of Noventi, a Menlo Park venture capital firm, and an active venture investor in emerging technology companies during the past 15 years. Previously, Mr. Ishii has worked as a senior management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. and systems engineer at IBM.
Mr. Ishii serves on the board and the advisory board of several multinational companies, and is a frequent speaker and writer on international business development in the high technology industry. He is also a visiting professor at Shizuoka University in Japan. |