Kazuo Noguchi is a Senior Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC and Senior Manager of R&D at Global Center for Social Innovation of Hitachi America, Ltd. He joined Hitachi Group in 2002 as Chief Consultant and Business Development Manager, initiated M&A and alliance strategies to the Hitachi’s Board. Recently, he joined Keio University, actively initiating International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE).

Prior to joining Hitachi, he was a Manager at KPMG at the New York office. He has MBA from University of Toronto, Master and Bachelor in Management Science from Tokyo University of Science.