Biography
Mr Shota Hattori is President of Kozo Keikaku Engineering (KKE) Inc., a leading structural design and supervision company in Japan which was established in 1959. Mr Hattori studied at the University of Tokyo, obtaining his Master's at the Graduate School of Sociology in 1982. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study at MIT in 1985. He joined Boston Consulting Group in 1985, accumulating experience in the consulting field in the United States and Japan. He joined KKE in 1987. After serving as a Director and the General Manager of the Innovative Information Technology Department, he became the President of KKE in 2002. He now serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Head of Kumamoto Kozo Keikaku Engineering and Manager of Fukuoka District Office at Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. He served as a General Manager of Marketing Division at Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. He serves as Vice President of the Executive Board of The Japan Society for Management Information, as well as lecturing and giving seminars at universities. He has been a Representative Director at Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc., since September 2001.