Languages

Bilingual in English and Japanese

Conversant in French and Dutch

Experience

CNBC TOKYO

Bureau Chief

2000 – 2016

Documentaries

• Created “Wheels of Change,” CNBC Asia’s first documentary which accurately predicted the advent of fuel cell, plug in and electric cars as well as their impact on the auto industry.
• Entered Myanmar before sanctions were lifted to air “Myanmar Calling,” which outlined the economic challenges and opportunities facing one of the most closed nations in the world.
• Chronicled the making of the Honda Jet in North Carolina, the dream of the company’s legendary founder Soichiro Honda
• Revealed the business acumen of the “Margaret Thatcher of Vietnam” as part of an entrepreneur series in Asia

Breaking news

• Part of the Emmy-nominated NBC team for leading coverage of the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan
• Entered Rohm’s factory in Thailand as it was flooded in 2011 to report on how it would cripple the global chip industry
• Unrivaled access to CEOs as veteran reporter from the world’s largest auto shows, including Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo
• First reporter for the channel to report live from Tiananmen Square during the National People’s Congress.

Features

• Anchor of numerous “Managing Asia” programs, CNBC’s longest-running feature program. Personal highlight was access to business guru Kazuo Inamori as he grappled to rescue JAL during the height of the Dreamliner grounding.
• Brought in and interviewed Softbank’s PEPPER robot live during Squawk Box to showcase how Japan is trying to lead in humanoid personal robots.
• First to cook live on air with three-star Michelin chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten while discussing competition in the culinary industry 

Manager

• Secured Tadashi Yanai, Japan’s richest man and Fast Retailing CEO, to personally accept the life-time achievement award at CNBC’s premiere awards event (ABLA) in Bangkok in 2015.
• Negotiated the relocation of the Tokyo bureau at four locations, securing IT networks and coordinating logistics under extremely tight budgets
• Hired and mentored cameramen, reporters and producers
• Organized large, freelance production crews for the bureau and documentary teams traveling through the region

Moderator

• Banking forum at the APEC summit in Vladivostok
• World Travel and Tourism Summit meetings

REUTERS

Tokyo Correspondent

1990-1999

• Filed for the print wire service, specializing in capital markets. Covered currency interventions, national budget, economic data, Bank of Japan policy. Edited economic copy.

London Correspondent

• Filed for the print wire service on the foreign exchange desk during the creation of the euro.
• Pioneered daily, live segments from London into TV Tokyo’s “World Business Satellite” program, Japan’s longest-running business program.

Reuters Financial Television

• Reporter, producer and anchor when live TV coverage via trading screens was first started