San Diego Metropolitan Area
I help organizations execute growth during periods of technological change. For more than twenty years I have built businesses at scale. At Intel I held general management and P&L responsibility up to $2.3 billion, leading the global education segment as Senior Global Director and General Manager. At Lenovo Japan, I built a new mobile business as General Manager, delivering 300 percent year-over-year revenue growth and opening new categories in education, retail, and commercial. Earlier in my career, I helped Intel expand into adjacent markets through partnerships with Sony, Sharp, and Toshiba. The work has been the same in every seat. Define what good looks like, instrument the signal, design the workflow, recruit the team, ship the platform. The category changes: silicon, education, commercial, cross-border markets. The discipline does not. What is different now is the environment. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how companies grow, how work gets done, and how organizations compete. Throughout my career, I have helped businesses navigate major shifts in technology, markets, and operating models. The challenge is rarely strategy. The challenge is execution. Turning change into growth is the work. That belief ultimately led me to found SignalVerified, a company focused on helping organizations make better talent decisions in the age of AI by creating more trustworthy ways to evaluate capability. Underneath all of it is a single mission: connecting human potential to economic opportunity. It is the thread between silicon and schools, between Tokyo and San Diego, between every turnaround and every new thing I have built. I hold a doctorate in education from NYU Steinhardt and am bilingual in English and Japanese, with more than a decade of operating experience in the broader Asia-Pacific region. I serve on the boards of Last Mile Education Fund, Barbershop Books, and Podium Education. I am available for senior executive leadership, general management, executive-in-residence, board advisory, and U.S.-Japan strategic partnership opportunities. I am most valuable when growth ambitions begin to outpace an organization's operating model and leaders need to turn complexity into execution.
SignalVerified, formerly Work Ready Partners, helps employers reduce early-career hiring risk by replacing guesswork with evidence. We work upstream of résumés and interviews, where most hiring decisions break down. Instead of screening narratives or credentials, we enable employers to see how early-career candidates actually think, solve problems, and communicate through completed, role-relevant work. Our current focus is a Early Adopter Program for employers who want to help shape an emerging standard for proof-based early-career hiring. Founding partners engage in a structured process where real work is evaluated against shared criteria, producing clear, evidence-based signals that can be used in hiring decisions. This work is informed by more than two decades of operating experience, including leading global education and workforce initiatives at Intel and Lenovo, building new business units, and working directly with employers to connect learning to real workforce outcomes. Today, that experience is applied to early-career hiring — where signals are weak, mis-hires are costly, and traditional screening methods are increasingly unreliable in an AI-distorted market. The objective is straightforward: help employers hire with greater clarity, confidence, and proof.
As a board member, serving on both the Governance and Finance Committees, I am proud to help this organization empower talented students to overcome financial barriers and complete their college degrees, driving transformative change in the tech workforce.
The U.S.-Japan Council develops and connects global leaders to create a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship. It is an organization whose members believe people-to-people relationships are a powerful way to bring together leaders in the U.S. and Japan to address and create solutions to mutual concerns.