Dave Takeuchi

Mr. Takeuchi is an Investment Partner at MCVP with a focus on information technology (especially software related) investments. His previous experience includes four years in Mitsui & Co., Ltd.’s global internal information systems division where he led several system integration and application development projects. Mr. Takeuchi’s career also includes three years as a derivatives trading risk manager in Mitsui’s Commodity Trading and Risk Management Division. During that time he was also a manager of the e-procurement ASP business for major Japanese manufacturing companies and venture investments in new IT companies in Japan. Following that he spent two years as a vice president of Mitsui's venture capital subsidiary, MVC Corporation in Tokyo. In MVC, he invested in IT startups in Japan, China and the United States with active board participation. He holds a Masters in Engineering from Tokyo’s Waseda University Graduate School, majoring in Computer Science, object oriented requirement analysis and artificial intelligence. Mr. Takeuchi is a chartered member of the Security Analyst Association of Japan.