Osamu Hori - Doctor of Engineering
Technical Advisor. Former Toshiba executive research leader with extensive experience in image processing, machine learning, AI governance and commercialization.
ADVISORY BOARD
Front-line expertise for AI and deep tech.
Our advisors bring experience in AI research, virtual reality, manufacturing, agriculture, chemistry, security, organizational leadership and professional practice.
TECHNICAL ADVISORS
Technical advisors in AI, image recognition, VR, advanced manufacturing, medical innovation and intellectual property, and mathematics and data science.
Hiroo Iwata - Professor / Technical Advisor
A pioneer in virtual reality with expertise spanning human informatics, mechatronics, applied research and technology strategy.
Naohiko Sugita - Professor / Technical Advisor (excluding defense technology)
Supports manufacturing and technology implementation. His advisory scope expressly excludes defense technology.
Fumiaki Kubo - Doctor of Laws / International Affairs Advisor / Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo / 10th President of the National Defense Academy of Japan (2021-2026)
Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at The University of Tokyo and received a Doctor of Laws degree from the university in 1989 for his work on the New Deal and American democracy. A specialist in American politics, he served at the University of Tsukuba and Keio University before becoming a professor at The University of Tokyo's Graduate Schools for Law and Politics in 2003. His overseas research was conducted at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and the University of Maryland. He has held roles including president of the Japanese Association for American Studies, member of the security subcommittee of the Cabinet Office's National Space Policy Committee, and senior visiting fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He served as the 10th President of the National Defense Academy of Japan from April 2021 through March 2026 and is now Professor Emeritus at The University of Tokyo. Drawing on extensive knowledge of U.S. politics and diplomacy, Japan-U.S. relations and security policy, he advises Standard Link on international affairs analysis and business strategy.
Yasumitsu Tomioka - Doctor of Medicine / Medical Innovation Advisor / Former Professor, Tokai University School of Medicine
After graduating from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Keio University, he studied mechanical engineering at its graduate school and later graduated from the university's Department of Law. Bringing together technology and law, he handled Japanese and international patent applications at a major patent firm before establishing Office Tomioka independently in 1994. He has worked at the forefront of patent consulting for 30 years. During that period, he spent approximately ten years in medical research as a researcher in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine within the Department of Surgery at Tokai University School of Medicine, and subsequently served as lecturer, associate professor and professor on a part-time basis. In 2011, he received a Doctor of Medicine degree for research on patent issues in medicine. His interdisciplinary background across engineering, law and medicine gives him insight into the full innovation process: creating technology, protecting it through rights and applying it in clinical settings. At the International Telecommunication Union, he twice served as vice-chair for work on ICT and persons with disabilities and on ICT and the environment, contributing to international ICT standardization. He has also served as a visiting professor at Seisa University. Drawing on expertise at the intersection of medicine and AI, medicine and intellectual property, and medicine and ICT, he advises Standard Link on AI business development and intellectual-property strategy in medical and healthcare fields.
Kazunori Nagai - Manufacturing Advisor
Provides manufacturing insight based on practical experience in production technology and industrial implementation.
Shigehide Iwata - Ph.D. in Science / Technical Advisor / Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Dr. Shigehide Iwata serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Marine Biosciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and remains at the forefront of research and education. His expertise spans mathematical ecology, applied mathematics, and statistics, and he elucidates complex biological and environmental systems through mathematical modeling combined with statistical and optimization methods. His theoretical work using lattice models to analyze competition and mutualism among species has been published in journals including Ecological Modelling. He has produced wide-ranging results in data-driven prediction and optimization, including the development of fish stock assessment methods and the underlying parameter estimation techniques, machine-learning-based estimation of abundance indices, mathematical modeling and optimization of material cycles in aquaponics, and risk diversification in multi-species fisheries through the application of portfolio theory. In 2023, he received the Best Paper Award of the Japanese Association for Coastal Zone Studies. He teaches Introduction to Data Science, Applied Statistics, and Bioresource Analysis, and is a contributing author to the Dictionary of Theoretical Biology (Asakura Publishing). His expertise in mathematics and data science—predicting and optimizing outcomes from limited data—contributes to advancing Standard Link's AI and image analysis technologies.
GROUP COMPANY
Group company members.
Takashi Baba - Doctor of Agriculture
AES Lab. Specialist in plant nutrition for dryland agriculture and environmental microbiology. His work includes agricultural development projects in Africa and Latin America and rapid microbiological measurement, including contributing to a method introduced into the Japanese Pharmacopoeia and to microbial management aboard the International Space Station.
Yoko Nakamura - Doctor of Engineering
AES Lab. Research experience includes fish infection-defense mechanisms, functional nanomaterials using virus-derived peptides, chemical analysis, experimental design and publication of results.
STRATEGIC ADVISORS
Strategic advisors.
Frank S. Clark III - Strategic Advisor
A West Point graduate with a Stanford master's degree and an MIT Seminar XXI fellowship. He served more than 26 years in the U.S. Army, including aviation, Northeast Asia assignments and senior policy roles, and later held private-sector leadership positions.
Shigeru Iwasaki - Senior Advisor
Former Chief of Staff, Joint Staff and former Chief of Staff, Air Self-Defense Force. He advises on security strategy, crisis management and large-organization leadership based on approximately four decades of service.
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
Legal and specialist support.
External professionals support governance, contracts, intellectual property and other specialist matters. Law-firm links are shown where publicly available.
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