Leadership
Team
Kai Sugihara
Yusei Fujii
Koya Tani
Team
Satoshi Ichiki
Yamato Ono
Atsuto Watanabe
Yasuto Narukiyo
Akito Hattori
Kimio Katayama
Issei Nishi
Sota Tomidokoro
Advisers
Kenichi Anma
Technical Adviser
A founding member of the space solar power division at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, where sixteen years went into Japan's national wireless power transmission research: the world's first long-distance laser experiment in 2006, and the microwave equivalent in 2016. Before that, six years of flight planning for the H-II rocket and the hypersonic vehicle HYFLEX. Now Head of the Business Strategy Office at Future Space Transportation Systems. Advises Zero on the technical design of Helios and its wireless power architecture.
Shoichiro Asada
Senior Adviser
Nearly half a century at the front of Japanese space development. At Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, responsible for the structure of every rocket in the national lineage from the N-1 to the H-IIA, then project manager for H-IIA launch services and the executive who opened its space solar power division. Later President of the Japanese Rocket Society and an executive at the SAR satellite operator Synspective. Now Executive Director of the Japan Space Forum.
Yoshi Kakiuchi
Adviser
Thirty-five years in satellite communications, from Japan's first commercial geostationary satellite to the first 110-degree broadcasting satellite and the operation of MBSAT. Ran satellite technology, satellite control, and infrastructure strategy at SKY Perfect JSAT, and shaped the company's work on the Space Activities Act. Now Senior Project Leader at Space Compass, the NTT joint venture, on an on-orbit optical communications demonstration.
Daisuke Katano
Adviser
Took a deep-tech manufacturer from a flying prototype to a public listing: the XTURISMO at A.L.I. Technologies, and in 2023 the first NASDAQ listing by a Japanese manufacturing startup. Before that, strategy at Dream Incubator and the Boston Consulting Group, then Representative Director of YCP Japan. Now a director at Data Section and an alliance partner at YCP Group.
Motoko Mizuno
Adviser
Twenty-eight years at JAXA, leading Japan's international negotiations on the International Space Station and helping draft the Space Activities Act that gave the country's space industry its legal footing. Then three years in the House of Councillors, working on space legislation. Holds a master's in international law from Leiden University.
Yuma Matsumoto
Legal Adviser
Corporate counsel across M&A, public offerings, and company formation, with practice in capital policy, investment agreements, and compliance with the Act on Launching Satellites and Controlling Spacecraft. Formerly in-house at Recruit, now at Sato Sogo Law Office. An outside director at Digital Plus and a supporter of the University of Tokyo's FoundX.