Management Team

Dr. Philip Parker

Philip Parker has 20 years of experience in high tech industries. He has established the Japan offices of a number of high tech companies, including vendors of network equipment, software, and semiconductors, and an undersea fiber optic telecommunications cable operator. He is a co-founder and board member of systemsGo, a leading systems integration firm based in Tokyo.

He founded P.J. Parker & Co. in 2001 with the objective of building profitable business relationships between Japanese and foreign companies in the high tech industries.

In his earlier career, Dr. Parker worked as a management consultant at Arthur D. Little and at A.T. Kearney. His clients were major telecommunications network operators and governments in almost all the countries of East Asia. He holds a PhD in engineering from the Australian National University and studied at both Osaka University of Foreign Studies and at Kyoto University. He speaks Japanese fluently.

Takashi Tazaki

Takashi Tazaki worked for over 30 years at Unisys Japan in major account sales and business development to the financial sector and the government sector, and various management positions. He helped establish the networking business of Unisys Japan, which grew into the subsidiary Uniadex.

He also has extensive consluting experience in business continuity management and internal controls for regulatory compliance.

In recent years, he has focused on assisting Japanese companies to realize value from their extensive patent portfolios.