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About WIT Corporation:

Wit Corporation is a leading research laboratory in deploying of advanced information science and technology in high-technology and key industries, which has been founded in 2003 by Waseda Univ. and the management team, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The mission of Wit Corporation is to turn innovative technologies into successful businesses. Wit is focused on creating original businesses based on advanced technologies that have significant potential for sustainable growth.

office:	Headquarters, WIT Corporation Waseda Univ Incubation Center, 1-22-3, Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0051, Japan
ｆounded:	2003
description:	business development and research
shareholder:	management team, individual, and Waseda Univ.
researchers:	18 (including non-full time)
map:	Waseda Univ. Campus map

management team:

Founder and CEO: Kenny (Koichi) Kato	Kenny Kato Executive, Entrepreneur and Investor - Business development, Life Science, Finance, Consumer, and Technology. Kenny has business development and marketing backgrounds. From 1990 to 2001, Kenny worked at Microsoft, was responsible for Windows products, marketing, and partner/channel business for Japanese market place. Prior to Microsoft, Kenny worked as a strategic business planner at NEC in both Japan and US. Before founding Wit Corp. in 2003, Kenny co-founded MediaSelect Inc., a Tokyo, Japan IT publishing and consulting firm that focuses on IT, management and businesses. Kenny is also responsible of Research. In this position he directs the operations of Wit Research, with approximately 10 researchers. Kenny received an Master of Science degree from Waseda Univ. Kenny is currently also: - Chairman of Trade Science Corporation - Managing Director of Executive Readers Forum* - Visiting Researcher at Waseda Univ. Business School (MBA).
Board Director: Prof. Yoichi Muraoka, Ph.D.	Prof. Yoichi Muraoka, Ph.D. Vice President of Waseda Univ., in charge of general planning, research promotion and information system Professor of School of Science and Engineering, Ph.D. from University of Illinois 1965 - B.E. School of Science and Engineering 1971 - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Graduate School of University of Illinois 1971 - NTT (Nippon Telegram and Telephone Corporation) 1985 - Professor of School of Science and Engineering Field of specialization: information processing and computer science
Board Director: Daiya Hashimoto	President and CEO of DataSection Inc.
Board Director: Tetsuhide Akaishi	Tetsuhide spent 9 years (1990-1999) at Microsoft Japan, most recently as Sr. Director of Systems R&D for Server products teams. Tetsuhide is responsible for Technology Group, which encompasses all aspects of Wit’s system software and solutions businesses.

*Executive Readers Forum is one of the biggest exclusive community for CEO and COO of F1000 type companies in Japan