Yoji Kawaguchi

Yoji founded Delta Pacific Partners in 2016, backed by Dr. Robert Huang, the founder of SYNNEX(NYSE:SNX), a Fortune 500 company. Delta Pacific provides valuable connections, expertise, capital, and co-working space in Menlo Park and Tokyo to help US startups and Japanese companies work together to scale their business globally. Yoji was a co-founder and managing director of ZenShin Capital, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley for ten years. He worked closely with the management team of Dash Navigation (acquired by BlackBerry(NASDAQ:BBRY)) and served as a board of Blueroads (acquired by CSG Openline), Yoics and ICZ. He was a founding CEO of a company in Silicon Valley focused on bridging Japan and US startups. Previously, as a Senior Manager of NTT Advanced Technology, U.S. office, he successfully launched its operation in Silicon Valley. As a chief engineer, he developed and successfully deployed the software system that operates NTT’s long-distance transmission network. He played a key role in Internet networking projects. Yoji received his MBA from Stanford Business School, and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo.