Gerhard Fasol
Gerhard Fasol
Current
- Eurotechnology Japan KK: CEO & Founder
- Ludwig Boltzmann Forum: Producer and Chair
- Trinity in Japan Society: Chair
Recent
- University of Kyushu: Guest Professor, creating and building four projects (2017-2020)
- Cybersecurity group GMO GlobalSign Holdings KK (Tokyo Stock Exchange Code 3788): Board Director and Member of the Board’s Supervisory & Audit Committee (取締役 兼 監査等委員) (March 2014 – March 2018)
Working since 1984 with Japan and since 1991 in Tokyo
Gerhard Fasol is Founder, Producer and CEO of Eurotechnology Japan KK which he founded in 1997 in Tokyo. Eurotechnology-Japan focusses on energy, IT and telecommunications, and works with many foreign companies on their growth in Japan, and has worked on 100s of projects since 1997. Prepared SIEMENS’ entry into Japan’s environmental technology markets, worked on NTT-Communications entry into Europe, helped a French pharmaceutical company acquire a Japanese factory.
In 1984, Fasol recognized Japan’s importance in technology and the relatively weak links with the rest of the world, and decided to focus on Japan in addition to physics and business. Fasol’s company helps Japanese technology companies globalize, and foreign companies to succeed and grow in Japan.
Eurotechnology Japan KK
For more than 25 years Eurotechnology works with leading Japanese, European and US companies – from ventures to leading multinationals, and family owned “hidden champions” – to acquire, invest, and grow.
We build business, work on company strategy, and turn-businesses around and work on acquisitions from our base in Tokyo.
Ludwig Boltzmann Forum
The Ludwig Boltzmann Forum as a global leadership forum focussing on energy, entropy and leadership, founded and chaired by Gerhard Fasol, in honor of Ludwig Boltzmann.
Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the world’s most important physicists, mathematicians and philosophers and contributed much to the foundations of today’s mathematics and physics.
The Ludwig Boltzmann Forum holds invitation-only in-person conferences with eminent leaders – industry leaders, academic and government leaders – as keynote speakers and audience.
Trinity Japan
Trinity in Japan is the Japan society of Trinity College Cambridge (part of the University of Cambridge) for discussions and cooperation open to Fellows, members and alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge.
We have regular in-person dinner events in Tokyo, and in parallel global video discussions with Trinity’s Fellows, outstanding alumni and guests.
Trinity in Japan Society is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group
Founded and chaired by Gerhard Fasol.
Board Director and corporate governance reforms
GMO GlobalSign Holdings KK (TSE:3788) ( March 18, 2014 – March 18, 2018): Gerhard Fasol served as Member of the Board of Directors and Member of the Supervisory & Audit Committee of the Board of GMO GlobalSign Holdings KK (Tokyo Stock Exchange Code 3788).
Gerhard Fasol on Corporate Governance and Management Reforms in Japan at the Foreign Correspondents Club FCCJ in Tokyo:
(according to The Economist of June 6, 2015, there are 274 (0.7%) non-Japanese Board Directors out of 40,000 Board Directors at publicly traded Japanese companies).
Semiconductor electronics R&D as Faculty of Tokyo University, Cambridge University, Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart, and Trinity College/Cambridge
Previously, Gerhard was a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering department of Tokyo University, and was one of the first foreigners to build an international research group in Japan. In addition, Gerhard was the first non-Japanese to complete a “Sakigake” research project at Japan’s Science and Technology Development Corporation.
Before coming to Japan, he was a manager of Hitachi’s Cambridge Research Laboratory; a permanent faculty member in the physics department at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University; a director of studies and teaching fellow at Trinity College; and a member of the scientific staff of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Gerhard co-authored The Blue Laser Diode: GaN-based Light Emitters and Lasers, and he has written about 80 scientific papers.
He is frequently asked to brief VIPs about Japan’s technology sector and is a regular commentator for CNBC, BBC and other global programs on financial results and trends of major technology companies in Japan, Korea, and China.
Gerhard Fasol is also one of the few Non-Japanese who has served as Japanese Government Official (国家公務員).
Gerhard Fasol graduated with a PhD in Physics of Cambridge University and Trinity College Cambridge.
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