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Hiroshi "Mickey" Mikitani
Co-Chief Executive Officer (Co-CEO)
Representative Director and Chairman, Rakuten Medical K.K.
Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani is Vice Chairman of the Board and Co-CEO of Rakuten Medical, Inc.
Mickey’s father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012. Ready to test his own limits to save his father, he immediately began his search for a cure. This led him to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) where he encountered photoimmunotherapy. With the same instinctual feeling he had when he first realized the internet would change the world, Mickey decided to personally support the development of a new technology, the Alluminox™ platform, based on this intriguing and promising treatment.
Born in Kobe, Mickey was educated at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and began his career in investment banking. He earned his MBA at Harvard Business School, and in 2012, was awarded the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, one of the school’s highest honors.
Mickey is also the founder, chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc., one of the world's leading internet services companies. Rakuten has a dynamic ecosystem of more than 70 services, spanning e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications, bringing the joy of discovery to 1.7 billion members around the world. Rakuten also became Japan’s newest mobile network operator in 2019.