Masaki Yoshino

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. engages in the provision of financial services centered on banking. It operates through the following business segments: Wholesale, Retail, International, Market Sales, and Headquarters Management. The Wholesale segment covers business for customers of large and medium-sized companies in Japan. The Retail segment handles business for domestic individuals and SME customers. The International segment comprises of business for overseas Japanese and non-Japanese companies. The Market Sales segment corresponds to financial market business. The Headquarters Management segment includes all other businesses not covered by other segments. The company was founded in April 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The Japan Research Institute Ltd. is a 'knowledge engineering' company, a company that offers information services, through the coordinated application of its three functions, that is, information systems, consulting, and think-tank. As a systems integrator, the company offers services in information technology (IT) strategy planning, implementation and outsourcing for a broad range of industries and activities. The company is also active in research of both domestic and foreign economic issues and formation of policy recommendation, as well as consulting in fields, such as corporate strategies and public administrative reform. In addition, the firm provides analyses and surveys for incubation activities in the creation of new markets and industries. Through these operations The Japan Research Institute offers a vision to its customers towards changes in the economic and social environment as well as developments in the IT area.

Yamaha Motor Corp. USA manufactures automobile products. Its products include motorcycles, outboard motors, ATVs, personal watercraft, snowmobiles, boats, outdoor power equipment, race kart engines, accessories, and apparel. The firm distributes all-terrain vehicles, generators, golf carts, motorcycles, scooters and wave runners. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Cypress, CA.

SK Hynix Memory Solutions, Inc. provides data recovery and transport technologies for storage devices. It offers dynamic random access memory chips, flash memory chips, and CMOS image sensors. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Inventit, Inc. offers aftermarket remote service management. Its products include MobiConnect for Business used for remote locking and ServiceSync which is an application platform for creating an "Internet-of-Things" that links one object to another. The firm also provides services which include kiosk devices, car navigation and health and welfare. The company was founded by Tak Nishida, Daisuke Baba and Takeshi Nishida on 12 June, 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Atonarp, Inc. provides chemical analysis solutions and systems. The firm develops the Smart Spectrometer technology that focus on industrial gas process analytics applications in the energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and semiconductor industries. The company was founded by Tomoyoshi Sato and Prakash S. Murthy in November 2009 and is headquartered in Minato-Ku, Japan.

OmniTier, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The firm’s product MemStac is a Memcached-compatible NVMe-SSD based caching solution for in-memory applications. It develops function-optimized solutions for modern datacenter infrastructure applications, including data caching, NoSQL, and real-time analytics, using novel memory-management architectures. The firm also operates through the offices located in Milpitas and Rochester. The company was founded by Hemant K. Thapar and Suneel Indupuru in 2015 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Yamaha Motor IM America, Inc. manufactures and sells printers and electronic parts. It provides screen printers, dispensing solutions, surface mounters, inspection systems, semiconductor assembly solutions and final assembly solutions. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Kennesaw, GA.

Part of Tokyo Kiraboshi Financial Group, Inc., Kiraboshi Consulting Co., Ltd. is a financial consulting company based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company appropriately evaluates and understands the business content and growth potential of various life stages of a company, and provides solutions based on that. The company collaborates with financial functions such as Gakuboshi Bank of group companies to support company growth through services such as consulting, corporate management information, seminars, and lectures. The company also handles overseas concerns one-stop using domestic and overseas networks. Additionally, they provide one-stop, from strategic planning to execution support, a specialized local M&A, which seriously considered the future of local companies.