Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization BitBiome
Location Japan, Asia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male
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Yuji Suzuki graduated from the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, and holds an MPhil in East Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is a certified bioinformatics engineer by the Japan Society of Bioinformatics (JSBi).
After working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Financial Services
Agency, he worked at McKinsey & Company's Tokyo branch and Shanghai branch, where he led strategic, organizational, and operational projects mainly in the medical equipment and manufacturing industries. After that, he was Global Head of Strategy Development and IPO preparation at Macromill, a Bain Capital portfolio company (at the time), Executive Vice President of Human Metabolome Technologies, a bio-venture company from Keio University, and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc., Strategy and Innovation Office. Mr. Suzuki joined bitBiome as COO in October 2021 and assumed his current role as CEO in July 2022.
