Tei is an independent Global Communications Advisor and Spokesman to one of the world's largest telecommunications companies NTT Communications, where he leverages his formal education in corporate strategy and his experience in government, international business, startups and venture capital to to support its president and CEO in international activities.

Concurrently, Tei has launched a venture company – gEco Holdings, LLC – focusing on cross-border technology transfer and consulting. The enterprise is the result of a graduation thesis completed in 2003, while studying an MBA at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

With a longtime associate, Tei is publishing a book through Kinokuniya Bookstores – the largest book retailer in Japan. The book is a non-fiction historical biography about a young Japanese boy named Otokichi that eventually inspired Commodore Perry to open trade relations with Japan in 1854 and dramatically impacted modern Japanese history.

No stranger to the venture business, Tei started his first venture, an energy services company, at age 12 and it earned him honorable mentions in the NY Times and USA Today newspapers.

In 1999, he started a venture capital and M&A company “Aja Ventures” with two partners. He has held various other management positions working at his family energy engineering company; as a trader in the food section of Mitsubishi Corporation and as an Advisor to JETRO (The Japan External Trade Organization). He is also a guest business-strategy lecturer at Waseda University’s extension campus – the “Nakazawa Academy.”

Tei’s mother is a recently retired university Japanese language professor and his father runs a successful engineering services consulting company, headquartered in Oregon, USA. Tei’s plans include eventually returning to the family business and consolidating it with his own company.