Takuya KOBAYASHI

Business Development Division, Creative Technology SBU

Technical Development Department, Business Development Division, Creative Technology SBU - preparing a new organization for business development

Senior Manager, Regional Development, Evonik Japan - Macro economy/ industry analysis, business incubation, collaboration for inorganic growth, strategy - Short assignment at German HQ for regional strategy (3 months) - A member of Executive Committee of Evonik Japan (May 2024~)

Senior Manager, Technology Scout/ Innovation Networks/ Corporate Innovation. - Lead Open Innovation with Universities/ Companies/ Ventures/ SME in Japan. - Scout technology for collaboration and/or M&A

Application Engineer Division/ Flash Storage Strategy Division, Semiconductor & Storage Products Company - Planed strategies to create the new memory + SSD business including not only semiconductor business but also module/ set/ service business, with research of trend/ demand of potential customer and trend of industry structure. - Lead more than 4 PJ in wide industry area including database server, network, medial and others.

Technology Strategy Planning Division/ New Business Development Project, Semiconductor & Storage Company - Planed and administrated the project to generate new future products with BU engineers and R&D researchers, and transferred technology development and marketing program to BU and R&D with approval of executives including company president. - Lead 8 PJ directly (support over 30 PJ) to generate new technology-based business by investigation and research of business plan, technology feasibility, and expected customers in corporation with BU sales/ engineer, and 2 of 8 PJ have been launched. - Established the competition which all engineer/researcher can apply their own idea without any approval/notice of their boss. Provided R&D budget (max 5M\/6 month) and support to the successful applicant. Almost 20% of ideas have been launched.

Advanced ULSI Process Engineering Dept. IV, Process & Manufacturing Engineering Center, Semiconductor Company - Developed new semiconductor “gate stack” process for 45-22nm process node CMOS and NAND, with new silicide, metal electrode and high-k dielectric layer deposition process.

CMOS Device Technology Group, Front End Process Program Research Dept. 1 • Developed integration new semiconductor process for 45nm process node CMOS with precious metal.

Department of Function Ceramic Materials, Division of Advanced Materials Science and Technology, ISIR, Osaka University • Received research funding during doctoral program from Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST). • Developed new chemical approaches to control flat-band voltage and band-bending for high-k/metal MOS transistor.

Technology Service Organization/ Delivery Engineering, Product Supply, Procter & Gamble Far East Inc. • Achieved the shortest record from new formulation to mass production of hair care products, as center of global team. • Accomplished the simultaneous large product launch in about 30 Asian countries, as Asia representative members of global team. This project is the first case of new global project system and become the model for subsequent project. • Revealed the cause and resolved the reliability problem in Thailand plant from 80% loss to almost 0% within 9months, as the leader.