Google Japan's Ken Tokusei

Guest Speaker Profile:
KEN TOKUSEI
Product Management Director Geo APAC
Google

At the MBA Innovation & Organization class on Jan 24, 2012, guest speaker Ken Tokusei illustrated Google's eight ideas that drive the company's continuous innovation by using examples of their initiatives that emerged after the 2011 Japan Earthquake. He vividly described how the eight ideas encouraged and guided its people to innovate at a time of national crisis. A very lively Q&A session followed.

Ken Tokusei is responsible for Geo information products for Asia Pacific markets including Japan. Ken joined Google in California, USA, in 2003 and internationalized a number of products such as Google AdWords. For Japan in particular, he launched the first version of Google Maps and Google Earth, and as a founding member of Google’s Mobile team, Ken led the development of Search services for consumers as well as major mobile operator portals, thereby building the foundation of Google’s presence in Japan’s Mobile and Maps spaces. He moved to Tokyo in 2009.