Kosuke Kikuchi
Platform & Relationship Director
Kosuke is the Platform and Relationship Director at Conductive Ventures, leveraging experience in engineering, business creation, and investment. A master connector, he specializes in linking visionary founders with major corporations to drive scalable growth. Passionate about innovation and collaboration, he empowers unconventional entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into thriving businesses.
Before joining Conductive Ventures, Kosuke led Game Changer Catapult, the in-house innovation arm to create new initiatives from employees’ business ideas, at Panasonic Corporation. Along with this bottoms-up approach, he was also a Board member of BeeEdge, a CVC focused on supporting business creation from large enterprise companies based in Japan by launching food-tech and healthcare-tech companies, which ultimately led to positive outcomes. Kosuke also worked as a corporate-to-corporate business manager and maintained executive relationships to create new business opportunities. Kosuke also spent time at one of the largest toy makers to optimize factory operation and created a go-to-market strategy at an education-tech startup.
Prior to that, he led project management for the information & entertainment business in the automotive industry and started his career as a software engineer from embedded systems, and frontend UX to requirement definitions.
Kosuke earned an M.B.A. from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He also graduated with an M.E. and a B.E. from Meiji University.
