Toshihiro Obata

Board Director
General Manager of Satellite System Development Department

Toshihiro joined Synspective as a member of the Board of Directors and the General Manager of the Satellite System Development Department in April 2019. Before joining Synspective, Toshihiro was with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for more than 19 years, first leading the team working on attitude control subsystems for earth observation satellites, then as manager of systems engineering for earth observation satellites. He also worked for TerraSAR-X in Astrium (now Airbus DS) Friedrichshafen, Germany as an exchange engineer in 2004. Toshihiro received a M.S. in Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1997 and in 2016, he joined the University of Tokyo to work on the system design of small SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite that is the basis for the demonstration satellites at Synspective.

Atsushi Shito

Board Director
General Manager of Corporate Administration Department

Atsushi is the General Manager of the Corporate Administration Department and manages accounting, finance, auditing, investor relations, and legal strategy and operation. Prior to Synspective, Atsushi worked for a number of audit corporations, where he performed financial audits as well as support for IPO, J-SOX, and financial due diligence. He was co-founder and CFO of a startup company where he raised more than 1.2 billion yen of capital from venture capital, operational companies, and government organizations. In addition, he is a Certified Public Accountant.

Shoichiro Asada

Executive Officer
General Manager of Business Development Dept.

Shoichiro joined Synspective as the General Manager of the Business Development Department in June 2018. Prior to Synspective, he spent 37 years devoted to the space program at Mitsubishi Heavy Indusries, Ltd.(MHI). He was a structural engineer for all the main Japanese launch vehicles: N-1, N-2, H-1, and H-2. From 1990 to 2000, he was engaged in the Japanese Space Shuttle, the HOPE-X programme.In 2003, he was assigned as project manager to privatize the H-2A. After managing space business in MHI, he became EVP of MHI’s US subsidiary in 2015 and served as the president of Japan Rocket Society from 2013 to 2015. Shoichiro received a M.S. in Space Technologies from The University of Tokyo in 1980.

Tomoyuki Imaizumi

Executive officer
General Manager of Solutions Development Dept.

Tomoyuki joined Synspective as the General Manager of the Solution Development Department and the Ground System Department in April 2018. Previously, he was with a geospatial information provider from April 2009 to March 2018, where he developed a high-speed image processing system for ASNARO satellite ground systems and became the project leader of research and development for feature recognition from satellite data through deep learning. He served as a leader of an artificial intelligence project at the company and engaged in developing solution services by using deep learning with remote sensing data. Tomoyuki holds a M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Gunma University, Japan and a M.S. in Systems Engineering from Keio University.

Yutaka Suzuki

Executive officer
General Manager of Ground System Dept.

He engaged in software engineering at Systems Engineering Consultants (SEC), which specializes in real-time technology. He was in charge of infrastructure construction and operation for research institutions, back-end and front-end development before joing Synspectve in 2018 as Cloud Engineer. He is in charge of the ground system architecture design. From the ground system requirements definition for satellite operation, he designs the architecture for the Google Cloud and leads programming, operation tests, and external negotiations. He was assigned as General Manager of Ground System Dept from February 2020.

Yuh Akiyama

Executive officer
General Manager of Marketing and Sales Dept.

During his tenure at the University of Tokyo's School of Engineering, his research focused on economic evaluations of energy projects. He majored in Technology Management Strategy as a line of research to apply science and technology to management. He joined Synspective in September 2018 as a data scientist. After joining the company, he also worked in the corporate strategy department and was involved in many operational reforms to expand the business. In January 2020, he became a Customer Solution Engineer and Manager, where he was responsible for discovering customer issues, conducting PoC using satellite data, and implementing data-driven decisions into actual business operations. In May 2021, he became General Manager of Marketing & Sales Department.