Kazutoshi Numata

Kazutoshi Numata holds a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Yokohama City University and completed graduate work at the Graduate School of Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
Prior to joining DI, he worked for Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

At Nomura Research Institute, he assisted in the development and execution of growth strategies and sales and marketing strategies for many major companies in the consumer goods, mail-order, food, automotive, energy, and finance sectors.
At DI, he is engaged in the development of growth strategies and new business strategies for major companies and startups in fields such as telecommunications, cosmetics, food, entertainment, finance, automotive, agricultural machinery, and energy. He is also actively engaged in Business Producing, which involves bringing multiple major corporations and startups together to collaborate to launch new businesses. In addition, he is currently engaged in executive development at many companies.
From 2017, as the person responsible for incubation, he was involved in management as a director of business investees DI Asia (sold in October 2019) and Work Style Lab (sold in June 2022).
Since 2022, he has promoted the operation of the Strategy & Installation practice and the launch of the Technology & Amplify practice.
Since September 2023, he has served as Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Shizenkan University.