

Prior to Silicon Studio, Takehiko was a lead engineer at US-based Silicon Graphics Inc’s then-Japan subsidiary, SGI Japan, which was also the company that launched Silicon Studio. Upon stepping down as CEO, he became fellow, member of the board. Under Takehiko’s leadership, Silicon Studio rapidly developed multiple mobile games and computer graphics rendering engines through the years, eventually listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2015. He also helped to launch the company soon after it was established, joining in 2000 as head engineer and then rising to executive director. He also founded Vault in 2019, which provides angel investor funding for technology start-ups.įrom 2007 to 2018, Takehiko was the CEO and president of a Japanese computer graphics company and video game developer, Silicon Studio. The latter two companies had been acquired by ax Inc under his charge. He heads ax Inc, which develops AI applications, framework, and middleware bitcraft, which specializes in backend solutions for console and mobile video games and MotionPortrait, which develops facial recognition, analytics, and animation technologies. Takehiko has extensive entrepreneurial and management experiences in companies that focus on cutting-edge technologies.Ĭurrently he is the CEO of several AI companies in Japan focusing on GPU-accelerated, fast AI inference framework products.
