Dr. Satoshi Tomita’s Profile
Satoshi Tomita, Ph.D. 
Present Position
- Founder & CEO
TC Consulting Co, Ltd. - Former Professor（Specially Appointed）,
Graduate School of Business Administration(MBA Course),
Rikkyo University, Tokyo
Education
- Ph.D. in Media and Governance, Keio University
Academic activities are Here - MA in Economics, Kyoto University
- BA in Policy Management, Keio University
- Reseaerch experience at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Career History
- Since Jun. 1996
- Investment research on U.S. securities at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.（U.S. private bank）
- Since Feb. 1999
- – Joined the startup of Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd.（FVC, Kyoto） as one of the 3 founders. Invested in lots of venture companies as a venture capitalist and worked as an external board member of such companies. Led some companies to IPO. Became the first director of Kanazawa office of FVC.
– Made a lot of “Japan’s first” activities including founding the first investment limited partnership in Japan, being the first private VC that was entrusted the national fund and the local government’s fund, founding the first securities investment corporation through venture investment, etc.
– Worked as a senior advisor of Kyoto Research Park（KRP）. - Oct. 2001
- Achieved FVC’s IPO in just 2 years and a half from the foundation（the eighth fastest in Japan at that time）
- Since Apr. 2003
- Full-time lecturer, Graduate School of Creative Cities, Osaka City University（Entrepreneur course of Graduate School for Creative Cities）. Lectured “Venture Financing”, “the theory of Venture Capital” , “Business plan making”, “Workshops”,etc. in the master’s course and “New Industry Creation and Politics” in the latter half of the doctor’s course. He was the first deputy of the entrepreneurship research course.
- Since Sep. 2005
- Moved to The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. Engaged in the investment in private equity funds in Europe and the U.S. and private real estate funds as a specialist. Played the role as the biggest gatekeeper of the venture funding in Japan.
- Since May 2008
- President & CEO of T-Connection Holdings Co., Ltd. Started the consulting business, holding a lot of subsidiaries and related companies that he invested in and acquired.
- Since Mar. 2012 to Present
- President & CEO of TC Consulting Co.,Ltd., a new company that focuses on the consulting business.
– Providing his consulting services to more than 200 companies including many large companies being listed in the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange and also start-ups specialized in an expansion stage. Main consulting fields are business develpments by arranging corporate alliance.
– Published 6 books about new business developments, Business tips, IoT and applied AI,or CVC - In Sep. 2016
- Got his Ph.D. from Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University（belongs to Prof. Yoshiyasu Takefuji’s laboratory） by the Research of a new Mathematical Model of Mutually Complementary for Corporate Alliances.
-One of his academic papers in printed : ”A Mathematical Model for Optimal Corporate Alliances : Evidence from Japan” Here
– Got the Outstanding Research Award at the GCBF 2016 by ”A New Mathematical Model of Mutually Complementary for Corporate Alliances : Selection of Optimal Partners using Eight Characteristics” Here - Since Apr. 2017
- Appointed to a Professor(Specially Appointed), Graduate School of Business Administration(MBA Course),
Rikkyo University
His lectures : Alliance Strategy, Technology & Strategy(IoT and applied AI), Business Simulation(How to make business plans), Seminar (for writing academic papers), etc.
Academic research
Academic Paper
Satoshi Tomita & Yoshiyasu Takefuji(2016)”A Mathematical Model for Optimal Corporate Alliances : Evidence from Japan”International Journal of Management and Marketing Research(IJMMR), Volume 9, Number 1, 2016
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Academic Paper
Satoshi Tomita (2018) ”Creating Research Inventions by Combination of Multiple Theories and Concepts : An Implication from Developing a New Mathematical Model for Corporate Alliances”, Global Journal of Business Research, Volume 12, 2018 No. 1, p.93- p.103
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita & Yoshiyasu Takefuji(2016)”A New Mathematical Model of Mutually Complementary for Corporate Alliances : Selection of Optimal Partners using Eight Characteristics”, with the Outstanding Research Award on January 5th, 2016, “Global Conference on Business and Finance” in Hawaii
Presentation’s PDF Here
Pictures Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita(2018) ”How to Create Research Inventions by the Combination of Multiple Theories and Concepts: An Implication from Developing a New Mathematical Model for Corporate Alliances”, with the Outstanding Research Award on January 2nd – 5th in Hawaii, “Global Conference on Business and Financ”(GCBF2018)
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Presentation’s PDF Here
Pictures Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita(2018), “The Japanese CVC and Big Hope for AI Start-ups in San Diego”, on April 27th-28th , 2018, as a Key note speech, “AI and the Future of Society: A Global Approach to Understanding the Digitalization Revolution from the Social Science Perspective” at UC San Diego.
Presentation’s PDF Here
Academic Conference
Thomas Schmidt, Satoshi Tomita, Yuki Yamauchi & Jörg Sydow(2018) ”Entrepreneurial Storytelling and the Rise of Robotics/AI Start-ups in Japan” on July 5th-7th in Tallinn, Estonia, EGOS(European Group for Organizational Studies)2018, with German professors. Peer-Double Blind Review.
Presentation’s PDF Here
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita(2018), “The rise of Corporate Venture Capital Funds for Middle – sized Companies in Japan as the strategy of New Business Developments”, on August 10th – 14th, 2018 in Chicago, Academy of Management(AoM)
Presentation’s PDF Here
Satoshi Tomita & Yoshiyasu Takefuji(2016)”A Mathematical Model for Optimal Corporate Alliances : Evidence from Japan”International Journal of Management and Marketing Research(IJMMR), Volume 9, Number 1, 2016
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Academic Paper
Satoshi Tomita (2018) ”Creating Research Inventions by Combination of Multiple Theories and Concepts : An Implication from Developing a New Mathematical Model for Corporate Alliances”, Global Journal of Business Research, Volume 12, 2018 No. 1, p.93- p.103
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita & Yoshiyasu Takefuji(2016)”A New Mathematical Model of Mutually Complementary for Corporate Alliances : Selection of Optimal Partners using Eight Characteristics”, with the Outstanding Research Award on January 5th, 2016, “Global Conference on Business and Finance” in Hawaii
Presentation’s PDF Here
Pictures Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita(2018) ”How to Create Research Inventions by the Combination of Multiple Theories and Concepts: An Implication from Developing a New Mathematical Model for Corporate Alliances”, with the Outstanding Research Award on January 2nd – 5th in Hawaii, “Global Conference on Business and Financ”(GCBF2018)
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Presentation’s PDF Here
Pictures Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita(2018), “The Japanese CVC and Big Hope for AI Start-ups in San Diego”, on April 27th-28th , 2018, as a Key note speech, “AI and the Future of Society: A Global Approach to Understanding the Digitalization Revolution from the Social Science Perspective” at UC San Diego.
Presentation’s PDF Here
Academic Conference
Thomas Schmidt, Satoshi Tomita, Yuki Yamauchi & Jörg Sydow(2018) ”Entrepreneurial Storytelling and the Rise of Robotics/AI Start-ups in Japan” on July 5th-7th in Tallinn, Estonia, EGOS(European Group for Organizational Studies)2018, with German professors. Peer-Double Blind Review.
Presentation’s PDF Here
Academic paper’s PDF Here
Academic Conference
Satoshi Tomita(2018), “The rise of Corporate Venture Capital Funds for Middle – sized Companies in Japan as the strategy of New Business Developments”, on August 10th – 14th, 2018 in Chicago, Academy of Management(AoM)
Presentation’s PDF Here
Academic associations
- Academy of Management(AoM)
- European Group for Organizational Studies(EGOS)
- Japan Academy of Business Administration
- The Academic Association for Organizational Science(Japan)
Book
Alliance Thinking
（2022）
-Collaboration with Startups through CVC
Instructional Text of CVC for New Business Developments
（2020）
-A Tool of Open Innovation
The Alliance Strategy for Business Developments
（2017）
-Taking Advantage of IoT and Applied AI-
Instructional Text of new Business Development
（2014）
-The Most Effective Skill For business Leaders-
popular book at fourth impression
Instructional Text of Sales Development for Achieving Good Performance for 10 Years From now
（2012）
Lecture of the Global Elite About Something you Need to be Aware of in Your Work
（2015）
The Venture Capital Cycle
（2002）
Translated version of the original book of
Dr. Paul Gompers and Dr. Josh Lerner in HBS
The Challenging Road to Cultivate Entrepreneurs
（2004）
Joint authorship