Daisuke Kan currently serves as the Executive Director at Cheerio Group, a rapidly growing Japanese beverage company with 400 employees. His passion lies in building an innovation company, an organization with capability to bridge different values to co-create and capture entrepreneurial opportunities. As a strong believer in entrepreneurship, Daisuke actively playing a role in the Tofu Project, Bay Area/Tokyo based movement to promote entrepreneurship and design thinking with top-tier Silicon Valley disruptors(=innovators) community. He also serves as Co-chair of Stanford Business School Alumni Tokyo Chapter, Asia 21 Young Leaders Fellowship and Board Member at Institute of Communication Art, a Tokyo based NPO which promotes creativity in child education. He earned his B.A. from the University of Tokyo in American Studies and his MBA from Stanford University.