HN
Hiro Nozawa
President & CEO of Asahi Media Lab Ventures
HN
Hiro Nozawa
President & CEO of Asahi Media Lab Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
President & CEO
2019 - Current
Managing Director
2017 - 2019
VP of Investment
2017
With over 15 years experience in the digital content business, I am currently serving as a Manager of the representative office in Silicon Valley at The Asahi Shimbun Media Lab, which is the open innovation office, to start new exciting businesses for the newspaper. I previously worked for a photonics labs of the NTT, a leading telecom company in Japan, as a research scientist of semiconductor laser diode for optical amplifier. I also engaged in research on quantum wires/dots and photonic crystal structures. I received a B.S. degree from University of Electro Communications, a M.S. from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1993 and 1995, respectively.
Manager of Silicon Valley Office
2015 - 2017
Producer, Media Lab--The Open Innovation Office
2013 - 2015
Senior Administrator, Office of the President
2013 - 2013
Editor in Chief of The Asahi Shimbun Digital Edition
2012 - 2013
Senior Administrator, Corporate Planning Office
2011 - 2011
Deputy Manager
2000 - 2011
Digital Media Business Center Multimedia Contents Business Division
Research Scientist
1995 - 2000