Profile
Member of the Board
Joshua Lawn
President
Joshua Lawn was born, in 1994, in Nagasaki Japan, and grew up in Nagasaki. He started research on wind turbines at Nagasaki University a government grant when he was in senior high school. After entering Kyushu University, he secured a research budget and started his research on wind turbines and wind tunnel testing technology at the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics from the first year in university. After achieving the development of the world's largest and fastest wind direction fluctuation wind tunnel, using this technology, he developed a number of new wind generation techniques including Tandem Rotor Wind Turbine that became the world's first commercially available double rotor wind turbine. He and his research team received 8 awards within Japan and 2 awards overseas in competitions (4 of them were top awards). He founded Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing Inc. before graduating from Kyushu University. Now he is the President of Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing Inc.
Award History
| 2011 | JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) Miraino Kagakusha Yousei Project (Future’s scientists training program) & Award of excellence“ |
| 2012 | Nagasakiken Kotogakko Sogokagaku Bunkasai (All Nagasaki high school cultural festival, physics and chemistry division of science competition) & First prize“ |
| 2012 | Kyushu Kotogakko Seito Rika Kyushu Happyo Taikai (All Kyushu high school cultural festival, physics division of science competition) & First prize“ |
| 2013 | QREC (Robert T.Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University) Challenge and Creation & First prize“ |
| 2014 | TECO GreenTech2014 (in Taiwan) & Finalist” |
| 2015 | QREC (Robert T.Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University) Challenge and Creation & First prize& (First ever to receive the First prize tree years in a row) |
| 2015 | TECO GreenTech2015 (in Taiwan) & Best Technology Award” |
| 2016 | TECO GreenTech2016 (in Taiwan) & The Silver Medalist” |
| 2017 | QREC (Robert T.Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University) Challenge and Creation & Award of excellence“ |
| 2018 | Fukuoka venture market award 2018 & Special award” |
Hondo Takashi
Outside Director
Career
| 1996 | Eastern Michigan University MBA in Finance |
| 1997 | Joined Andersen Consulting (present Accenture Japan Ltd). |
| 2000 | Joined NIF Ventures(present Daiwa Corporate Investment Co. Ltd.). |
| 2006 | Founded Fintech Global Capital, LLC as a representative partner. |
| 2015 | Founded QB capital, LLC as a representative partner. |
| 2016 | Joined Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing Inc. as an outside director. |
Tsuyoshi Sakamoto
Auditor
Career
| 1989 | Joined ROHM Co., Ltd. |
| 1991 | Joined ROHM Co., Ltd. |
| 1995 | Joined Japan Business Promotion Association. |
| 1996 | Joined e food Co. Ltd. |
| 1997 | Joined Kyushu Mirror Product Co., Ltd. (present Kyukyo Co.,Ltd.). |
| 2004 | Joined Academic Research and Industrial Collaboration Management Office of Kyushu University as an assistant professor. |
| 2010 | Joined Kyushu TLO Company, as a representative director. |
| 2015 | Founded QB capital, LLC as a Representative partner. |
| 2016 | Joined Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing Inc. as an auditor. |