Location Redwood City, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Michio is a Director Emeritus and former Managing Director of ATA, including participation in ATA’s first two funds, from the firm’s founding through 2008. A majority of Michio’s investments have included materials, semiconductor, and component companies, such as Luminary Micro (acquired by Texas Instruments), TeleCIS (acquired by QualComm), EoPlex
(acquired by ASTI), and BrightScale.
Prior to ATA, Michio owned and operated Vanguard Systems Consulting (VSC), a consulting company utilized by both venture capital firms and start-up teams for defining opportunities for establishment of subsidiaries, partnerships and distributorships for U.S. corporations in Japan. To assist with this process, Michio guided a team of business development experts in Japan in forming Aisys Corporation, a consulting firm that provided marketing channels into the premier Japanese companies. Michio’s executive management level relationships range across virtually all major Japan-based consumer product and semiconductor technology companies.
