Kei Shimada is a Japanese American entrepreneur, innovation leader, and startup mentor working across deep tech, corporate innovation, and founder development. He currently serves as CEO of Sirius Technologies, the U.S. arm of Innovative Space Carrier, while also holding the role of Chief Business Officer at ISC. His career spans large global organizations and innovation-focused leadership roles, including Panasonic, Lucent Technologies Japan, Dentsu, IBM Japan’s Digital Makers Lab, and R/GA. Public speaker and event bios highlight a track record in world-first and industry-first projects, including Japan’s national evacuation shelter database, an AI classical concert that received a Cannes Silver Lion, and a CES Innovation Award-winning smart speaker. He is also widely recognized for pitch coaching, keynote speaking, and startup mentoring, with public event pages noting more than 150 keynote talks across roughly 40 countries and mentoring support for more than 1,000 companies. In Japan’s startup ecosystem, he is active as a Founder Institute mentor and a frequent speaker on innovation, pitching, and global startup growth.

2. Potential Collaboration Areas
Kei would be a strong collaborator for founder education, pitch training, innovation programs, and cross-border startup initiatives. His background combines corporate innovation leadership, startup operating experience, business development, and public speaking, which makes him especially valuable for accelerator sessions, founder workshops, investor-readiness programs, and ecosystem events. He would be particularly relevant for collaborations involving English pitch development, global market communication, partnership strategy, and mentoring founders building in frontier sectors such as space, deep tech, and advanced technology. His mix of enterprise and startup experience also makes him well suited for programs that need both strategic perspective and practical guidance for execution.