Culturelabs Representative
Shimada is a visiting researcher of Tokyo University, Columbia University graduate and diversity activist. She specializes in finance, tech, medical care,media, and M&As.
Shimada’s past experience include innovation head of a major global financial company, a CXO advisor for a major tech, medical and financial company, COO of MUFG Financial Markets Division Americas, and the General Manager of Thomson Reuters Bank Securities Global Strategy Department and the General Manager of Japan Department.
She is a former travel geek (70 countries pre-Covid), has coding experience  and her hobbies include people watching

Katherine teaches global marketing at UC Berkeley Haas Business School, consults worldwide and is finishing a memoir on being a global CMO and mother around the world.

Ogawa is a former PMO and Business Analyst of a variety of projects at non-life insurance companies. He is an expert in new product development (including customer experience and employee experience designs), and specializes in Design Thinking and conducts workshops and training for internal and external participants.

Tsukamoto started her career in Japan in 2013, as a PMO for new product development projects (reverse engineering) at a foreign-affiliated medical development equipment manufacturer.

In 2014, She began work as a strategy consultant at a general consulting firm, mainly as a project leader promoting projects, focusing on new business development projects and business model transformation projects.

Tsukamoto engaged in new businesses, business reforms, policies and policy-making of companies of various scales, operations and business categories, from some listed companies to local governments and startups.

From 2019 to 2021, in her role as a project manager she also supported the development of digital products for new businesses and new services, while managing the interface between the end user side and the business side, and focusing on DX projects for the corresponding development companies.

Tsukamoto joined Culturelabs in 2021 to promote Service Design Sprint methodology and project management in a wide range of consulting projects

Born and raised in Germany, Alexa splits her studies between Paris & Tokyo, currently pursuing her Masters at Sciences Po specializing in Economic Law and Global Governance Studies.

She is passionate about promoting Euro-Japanese innovation initiatives and the evolution of CSR
 
As Management Assistant, she handles business management tasks at Culturelabs.

Olivier Fabre, Culturelabs' Media Relations & Diversity Advocacy, is also a freelance journalist and LGBTQ+ activist in Tokyo with Pride House Tokyo and Tokyo Rainbow Pride.

Previously he worked with Reuters in Tokyo and around Asia for 25 years, as a reporter, video producer and Senior Producer. While at Reuters, he set up the Tokyo chapter of the local LGBTQ+ employee resource group (ERG), Pride at Work and led it for several years.

He is also a third generation Third Culture Kid, Sansei (3rd generation Japanese) and mixed culture citizen having been born in Paris, France of parents also of mixed heritage, and then brought up in Chennai, India and Tokyo, Japan. Speaks, English, Japanese and French in that order.

Hiroshi started his career as an institutional salesperson for one of the “Mega Banks” in Osaka.

He then decided to move to one of Japan’s southern most islands, Ishigaki. Once on Ishigaki, Hiroshi has self-taught as a designer and a copy writer. His brilliant ways were noticed, and now he runs Design Sprints, marketing, and visual design, including prototypes and other visual deliverables for Culturelabs.