Ray K. Tsuchiyama

Topic: What I Learned At Google That Are Important Lessons for Hawaii

CEO at Tsuchiyama & Associates

Summary

• Award-winning bi-lingual professional, highly-experienced in Silicon Valley, Japan, Asia-Pacific.
• Operations and Leadership background with Universities, Corporations, Foundations, Start-ups, Federal U.S. Government.
• Expertise in Strategy, Recruiting/Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Public-Private Partnerships, Planning, Management, Relationship-Building, Partnering, Fund-Raising, Program Development and Advancement, Leading-Edge Technologies, Sales, Marketing and Global Accounts.
• Outstanding record of achievement in contract negotiations and fund-raising.
• Hands-on, strategic, flexible, multi-cultural executive who believes that leadership is built with examples and mentoring to develop leaders. Independent consultant to manager of group geographically-distributed in six-plus countries.
• As Core Team Key Member/P & L responsibilities: Group Revenues from zero to $110M in 6 years.
• Branding For Over 4 Billion Consumer Mobile Devices Shipped with Embedded Software Product.
• Alliance, Channel and Direct Sales.
• Leadership of teams to achieve sales and projects completion.
• Thought Leader published in Forbes, New York Times, and Japan Times. Invited speaker to Microsoft and other industry conferences in Vienna, London, Shanghai, New Delhi, Sydney and Istanbul. Spoke to faculty and students at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of Hawaii Shidler College of Business, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Waseda University. Mentor to students at Ivy League universities from Hawaii public schools and Global MBA candidates at the University of Hawaii.
• Launched Offices in Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Bangalore, Sao Paulo, and Singapore.

Experience

• Founder and Principal

  Tsuchiyama & Associates

  October 2016 – Present (10 months)

• Deputy Director and Chief Operations Officer (COO)

  DHS/FEMA Federal National Disaster Preparedness Training Center

  May 2015 – September 2016 (1 year 5 months)

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  Director of Development for Multi-Campus and New Initiatives

  University of Hawaii Foundation

  February 2015 – April 2015 (3 months)

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  Director - Institutional Advancement

  University of Hawaii Maui College

  August 2011 – January 2015 (3 years 6 months)

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  Senior Consultant

  Google

  September 2010 – August 2011 (1 year)Tokyo, Japan

• Advisor/Consultant

  Venture Capital Firms and Stealth Start-Ups

  October 2009 – August 2010 (11 months)

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  Head - Japan Marketing and Emerging Markets

  Nuance

  August 2007 – September 2009 (2 years 2 months)

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  Country Manager/Japan-Greater China Regional Head/Emerging Markets Head

  Tegic/AOL/Netscape Communications/TimeWarner

  June 1999 – July 2007 (8 years 2 months)Tokyo, Japan

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  Director - Sales, Marketing, Operations

  Analog Devices

  June 1996 – June 1999 (3 years 1 month)

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  Asia Director

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1991 – 1996 (5 years)

• General Manager

  Leading Hawaii-based Companies

  March 1983 – June 1991 (8 years 4 months)