JapanMitsunobu Okada
Mitsunobu 'Nobu' Okada earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from the Krannert School of Business at Purdue University. He began his career at McKinsey & Company as an engagement manager and worked for Japan's Ministry of Finance before becoming an IT entrepreneur and strategy consultant, managing technology companies across Japan, China, India, and Singapore and leading one to an IPO. Inspired as a teenager by a space camp at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, he founded Astroscale in 2013 to tackle the growing threat of orbital debris, using his personal funds as seed money and building out a team that grew into units in Japan, the UK, the US, and Israel. He has served as CEO since the company's inception.