Hitoshi Ode

Main Job Experiences White Motion LLC COO (Chief Operating Officer) /CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) July 2018 – Oct 2019 based in Tokyo, Paris, Tel Aviv. White Motion is specialized in automotive cyber security, a joint venture company between *Marelli (tier 1 automotive supplier) and Quarks Lab (French cyber security company). *Calsonic Kansei changed its name to Marelli after its M&A with Magneti Marelli. Tristone Partners Founder and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Sept 2016 – Dec 2017 based in Menlo Park, California in US. Tristone Partners is a boutique consulting firm, a highly specialized small consulting firm in the domain of supporting new overseas business developments for small and medium – sized Japanese enterprises. Marubeni Corporation 10 years (April 2006 – April 2016) Marubeni is one of the largest Japanese trading and investment firms, a conglomerate which is involved in various types of business activities with its 5 business divisional groups (i.e. Food & Consumer Products, Chemical & Forest Products, Energy & Metals,Power Projects & Plant and Transportation & Industrial Machinery). Manager of Aerospace and defense system Division April 2014 – April 2016 based in Tokyo, Japan. Manager of Automotive Division April 2006 – March 2014 based in Tokyo, Japan, Alger (Algeria), Karachi (Pakistan) Alger office 2009 - 2012 : Director of Transportation & Industrial Machinery. Karachi office 2008 – 2009 : Manager of Transportation & Industrial Machinery. Honda Motors Sales & Marketing lead of world HQ April 2003 – Sept 2005 based in Tokyo, Japan. Responsible for managing automotive distributors in North African regions (Algeria Morocco and Tunisia). Education IMD Business School Master’s degree of business administration MBA (EMBA) University of Lausanne in Switzerland Master’s degree for international economics Languages Japanese Native English Bilingual proficiency French Intermediate proficiency Hobby Triathlon (Ironman, Ironman 70.3 and Olympic distance) & Surfing