TBP and M&A Team Leader, Strategic Planning Department, Terumo Corporation (Tokyo)

Taka has assumed corporate business development and transaction responsibilities over the last ten plus years covering cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, licensing in/out and strategic partnerships across three business domains of Terumo Corporation. He closed dozens of deals ranging from small scale, early stage startups to over billion dollar transformative deals.

Prior to the role, Taka held management roles in APAC countries at Terumo subsidiaries.

Taka holds BA in Literature and Linguistics from Kyoto University.