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INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL

Principal

HIROAKI KOBAYASHI

  • PROFILE
  • CAREER
● Hiroaki Kobayashi joined UTEC in August 2019 and focuses on seed/early investments in Healthcare, MedTech, IT, Life Science, etc. as a principal.

● He currently serves as a board member at TXP Medical, Metcela, Frontier Field, Enterasense, etc.

● Prior to UTEC, he worked in the medical device industry both in a start-up and in MNC, There he led diverse activities including alliances in manufacturing, development and distribution, industry-academia collaborations, KOL management, physician training and product marketing.

● He is an emergency medicine and intensive care physician by training and worked 5+ years in multiple academic medical centers.
Prior to joining UTEC, Hiroaki Kobayashi worked for JOMDD, a medical device start-up and a multinational medical device company.
Prior to the medical device industry, he worked for the University of Tokyo Hospital and Hitachi General Hospital as an emergency and intensive care physician.
Hiroaki Kobayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine (M.D.) and earned M.B.A from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan as a Fulbright Scholar.

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