
Kojiro Hatada President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
President and CEO of Innovative Space Carrier Inc. Outside Director of ispace Inc., and Outside Director of ArcEdge Space Inc.
After graduating from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Energy Science (Masters course) in 2004, he joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. After working on energy policy and industrial policy, he was seconded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2012 and worked at the Delegation of Japan to the European Union and the Embassy of Japan in Belgium.
In 2015, he was seconded to the Cabinet Office's Space Development Strategy Promotion Secretariat, where he contributed to the expansion of private space business through the enactment of the Space Activities Act, the formulation of the Space Industry Vision 2030, and the founding of the space business idea contest S-Booster.
In 2017, he returned to METI and founded J-Startup, a new startup support program.
In 2018, he left METI to join Digital Hearts Holdings Inc., where he was involved in launching a cybersecurity talent discovery and training program, and founded Digital Hearts Plus Inc. in 2019.
In May 2022, he founded Innovative Space Carrier Inc. and became its President and CEO.