Teruhide Sato
佐藤辉英
Founder and CEO, BEENEXT
BEENEXT 创始人兼首席执行官
Teruhide Sato is the Founder and CEO of BEENEXT, a venture capital firm investing in the continued growth and development of Asia. Since 2015, the fund has invested in a total of 230 startups in Southeast Asia, India and Japan. Prior to BEENEXT, Mr. Sato was the CEO of BEENOS, a global internet and e-commerce business incubator, which he co-founded in 1999 and took public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2004. Simultaneously, in 2011, Mr. Sato broke new ground and started supporting online businesses in Southeast Asia and India. Mr. Sato served on the board of Tokopedia and Midtrans as an early investor (the aforementioned companies merged with Gojek to become GoTo, which is now the largest technology platform in Indonesia). Outside of BEENEXT, Mr. Sato is a board member of International House of Japan, an executive committee member of Silicon Valley Japan Platform, and a board member of Endeavor Japan. He was also selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008.
Mr. Sato studied in Italy at the United World College of the Adriatic, with the scholarship support from Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) and received his B.A. from Keio University.
佐藤輝秀是BEENEXT的创始人兼首席执行官，BEENEXT是一家投资于亚洲持续增长和发展的风险投资公司。自2015年以来，该基金已经在东南亚、印度和日本共投资了230家初创企业。在创办BEENEXT之前，佐藤先生是BEENOS的首席执行官，该公司是一家全球互联网和电子商务孵化器，他于1999年共同创办，并于2004年在东京证券交易所上市。同时，自2011年起，佐藤先生开辟了在东南亚和印度支持在线业务的新领域。佐藤先生是Tokopedia和Midtrans的董事会成员，并担任早期投资者（上述公司与Gojek合并成为GoTo，现为印度尼西亚最大的技术平台）。除了BEENEXT之外，佐藤先生还是日本国际之家的董事会成员、硅谷日本平台的执行委员会成员和Endeavor Japan的董事会成员。他还于2008年被世界经济论坛选为年轻全球领袖。
佐藤先生曾在意大利阿德里亚堤克联合世界学院学习，并获得了日本经团联（日本经济团体联合会）的奖学金支持，获得了庆应义塾大学的学士学位。
