Luiz Ojima Sakuda is Professor at FEI and consultant on innovation and entrepreneurship, and Chief Effectiveness Officer at Globond International. Sakuda has a very diverse experience in Entrepreneurship as entrepreneur, advisor, consultant, academic, and investor; and has still does different things such as volunteering to Artemisia and Endeavor Foundations, helping to judge Business Ideas for FGV-Intel Challenge, moderating the Sakuda Community (focused on new business development), and giving his 0.02 as specialist to GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor).

Sakuda earned his BA in Public Administration, and his MBA at FGV-EAESP, where he also completed the PhD coursework. He also studied at ESSEC (France) for part of his MBA. Sakuda was Senior Managing Director at Globond, consultant to the Schreier Family Office, Partner of Orbe Investimentos and Director of Business Development at Yavox Latin America. Sakuda also has academic experience as a professor of MBA programs for FGV Management and BSP – Business School Sao Paulo, on strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation related courses.

He wrote and published his own book of poems and short stories at 18, and acted in two Shakespeare plays. As a Japanese-Brazilian, Sakuda has been exposed to different cultures since birth. Living abroad in France and in the USA was also a very important life experience. Sakuda has a very curious mind, and participates in several different communities – business, academic, artistic and others. Now he is trying to learn more about Golf and wines. He is conversant in French, fluent in English and of course his native Portuguese.

Location

São Paulo, Brazil

Disciplines

• Anthropology
• Economics
• Geography
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Business
• Education

Affiliation

FEI - www.fei.edu.br