Management Team

Company

Etsuo FUKUDA
Representative Director & CEO Etsuo FUKUDA, Ph.D.(Eng)

Born in Gunma Prefecture in 1961.He received Master’s degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987 and joined ULSI lab of Toshiba Corporation. He was involved in establishment of IT friendly manufacturing lines in 1990’s. In 2001, he became a board member of Semiconductor Portal, Inc. (an in-house startup), a portal site that was popular at that time, and changed from an engineer to a management side. In 2003 he returned Toshiba Corporation and focused on product planning, market development and internal start-up business (one IPO achieved in 2014). In 2016, he moved to Tohoku University to launch the company, and in 2018, he started Power Spin Inc. with Endoh CTO. At the same time, he was also appointed as a director of T&S inc., and in 2020, he became the second IPO company to go public. In 2022, he was appointed President & CEO of Power Spin Inc.

Tetsuo ENDOH
Representative Director & CTO Tetsuo ENDOH, Ph.D.(Eng)

Born in Tokyo in 1962. Graduated from the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo in 1987. Joined Toshiba in 1987 and engaged in R&D and commercialization of NAND memory. In 1995, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Institute of Electrical Communications, Tohoku University, and in the same year, he received a Ph.D. in engineering from Tohoku University, and after serving as an associate professor and associate professor at Tohoku University, he was promoted to professor in 2008. In the same year, he became a professor at the International Center for Advanced Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, and in 2012, he became a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University. In addition, since 2010, he has also served as Deputy Director of the Center for Energy Conservation and Spintronics Integrated Systems, Tohoku University, and since 2012, he has also served as Director of the Center for International Integrated Electronics Research and Development at Tohoku University. Since 2012, he has been a Sendai City International Industry-Academia Collaboration Fellow, and since 2017, he has been a Research Professor at Tohoku University. He is engaged in research on 3DNAND memory, High-density non-volatile memory such as STT-MRAM and SOT-MRAM, ultra-low power consumption application processors such as non-volatile logic and high-performance CMOS circuits, and GaN on Si-based power electronics technology. In 2016, he received the Prime Minister’s Award, an award for meritorious contribution to industry-academia-government collaboration, and the 2017 National Invention Award for his invention of 3DNAND memory. 2023 IEEE Fellow.

Award
2001
LSI IP Award
2009
31th JJAP Paper Award (Japanese Journal of Applied Physics)
2011
23th SSSJ Paper Award (The Surface Science Society of Japan)
2012
6th JSAP Fellow (The Japan Society of Applied Physics)
2012
44th SSDM Paper Award (International Conference on Solid State Device and Materials)
2016
14th Prime Minister’s Award for his contribution to industry-academia-government collaboration @Spintronics Based low-power semiconductors
2017
National Invention Award, the 21st-century Encouragement of Invention Prize, for his contribution to the invention of 3DNAND memory and President’s Special Award (Campus Commendation)
2023
IEEE Fellow for contributions to nonvolatile memory and spintronic logic
Toru MASAOKA
Director Toru MASAOKA
1974
Master’s Degree in Engineering, Keio University
1974
Joined Toshiba Corporation
2001
President & CEO, Iwate Toshiba Electronics CO.,LTD
2003
General Manager, System LSI Division, Toshiba Corporation
2006
Executive VP, Toshiba Ceramics Inc.
2011
President and CEO, Global Wafers Japan Inc.
2015
Japan Science and Technology Agency ACCEL Program Manager
2018
President and CEO, Power Spin Inc.
2022
Director, Power Spin Inc.(current)
Kengo MIURA
Director (Outside) Kengo MIURA
2015
Master‘s Degree in Biological Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2015
Joined JAFCO Group Co., Ltd.
2021
Principle, Investment Group for Academy & Life Science, JAFCO (current)
2021
Outside Director, Power Spin Inc. (current)
Tetsuro HIGUCHI
Director (Outside) Tetsuro HIGUCHI
1984
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Keio University
1984
Joined JAFCO Co., Ltd.
1999
General Manager, Fund Planning Team, JAFCO
2000
Director and Executive Vice President, CFO, JAFCO Investment (Asia Pacific) Ltd in Singapore
2003
General Manager, Finance Department, JAFCO
2011
Principal, Fund Management Department, JAFCO
2015
Executive Officer and General Manager, Administration Department, TOHOKU University Venture Partners Co., Ltd.
2015
Director, TOHOKU University Venture Partners
2021
Representative director, President and CEO, TOHOKU University Venture Partners (current)
2019
Outside Director, Power Spin Inc. (current)
Ko KUMAGAI
Auditor Ko KUMAGAI
1971
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Tohoku University
1971
Joined Nikko Securities Inc. (current SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.)
1989
Director of Management Research, Nikko Research center Ltd. (current Nikko Research Center, Inc.)
1997
Managing Director, Nikko Research center Ltd.
1999
Managing Director, Nikko Capital K.K. (current Ant Capital Partners Co., Ltd.)
2001
President and CEO, Nikko Capital K.K.
2003
Representative Director, Chairman, Nikko antfactory K.K. (current Ant Capital Partners Co., Ltd.)
2003
Representative Director, President and CEO, Tohoku Innovation Capital Corporation (current)
2018
Auditor, Power Spin Inc. (current)