Dr. Ken Sakakibara is an executive senior consultant at TRANSEARCH Japan executing senior level searches for clients within the technology sector. He started his career at Canon Inc., and then held executive positions in a variety of R&D organisations over a period of 30 years prior to joining TRANSEARCH. Ken studied Industrial Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology where he obtained a BE degree. He subsequently received a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Innovation Management at the Tokyo Institute of Technology which is rated as one of the top universities by Times Higher Education World University Rankings. He is an inventor of 6 U.S. registered patents, author of numerous academic papers, some of which were published from IEEE, and was granted 4 honorary awards from Information Processing Society of Japan. He is interested in the history of science and technology and those contributions to the industry, so in his spare time he sometimes appears in different universities as teaching/research assistant of these subjects. He is currently a regular lecturer at Toyo University in Japan as a Professor of Faculty of Economics.