Episode #41: Kei Sakaguchi, Ex-Japan Representative, Eurasia Group

Kei Sakaguchi has a wealth of experience both in global Japanese corporations and small-scale innovative companies. Growing up in a Catholic environment, Mr. Sakaguchi was exposed to foreign culture from an early age and aspired to work in a global organization one day. Mr. Sakaguchi graduated from Keio University with a law degree, and entered Sony Corporation as a new graduate after reading a cover story on Akio Morita, Sony’s legendary co-founder and CEO. After 27 years at Sony, Mr. Sakaguchi’s next move was to Coca-Cola, where he became the Manager of Global PR, leading a team of 30-40 staff. Mr. Sakaguchi then joined the senior leadership team of Meltwater, a San Francisco based online and social media intelligence company, where he led a team of 20 people who were mainly in their 20s. After two years at Meltwater, Mr. Sakaguchi was headhunted by Eurasia Group, a New York-based consulting firm focusing on focusing on advising global companies on the potential risk of geopolitics on their global business. Mr. Sakaguchi initially ran a solo operation as the Japan representative mainly focusing on business development.