Engaged in strategy consulting for new business development and start-up in scholarly communication as a freelance based in Tokyo. Lecturer, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba (2019-), External Committee member, University of Tsukuba International Strategy Council (2012-2015, 2018-), Member of the Institute for Materials Science Digital Library Special Committee (2016-) In the past, he has been a Director of Asia Pacific for ORCID (http://orcid.org), a Custom Publishing Director for Nature Publishing Group (now SpringerNature), and a Southeast Asian Business Development Lead Consultant for Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics). Master of Library and Information Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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