Kiyotaka Fujii
Senior Executive Vice President, Konica Minolta; Executive Chairman of the Board, REALM IDx, Inc.
Kiyotaka Fujii is Executive Chairman of REALM IDx Inc., a healthcare company pioneering the field of integrated diagnostics that brings together genomics, radiology, pathology and artificial intelligence to derive actionable insights that can predict, diagnose, and treat disease. He has been concurrently Senior Executive Vice President of Konica Minolta, Inc. since 2016.Fujii’s extensive international business career ranges from medical services, information technology, and consumer products to investment banking. He has held several Japan CEO positions with top global companies since 1997, including SAP, Louis Vuitton, Cadence Design Systems, and Quintiles Transnational. From 2012 to 2015, he served at Olympus as the first independent board member to rebuild its governance and businesses. From 1986 to 1993, Fujii held the role as the first Japanese M&A investment banker in New York with First Boston and Goldman Sachs. He began his career with McKinsey as the first hire from a Japanese university. As the author of “Global Mind,” a top-selling Japanese business book, Fujii is often consulted for his perspective as a global business leader in Japan by the government and news media. He received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1986 and a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1981.
