FIO Technology Inc. is a consulting company founded in Sunnyvale, CA, in 2006 to provide innovative solutions i(idea) for y(you).
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Itsuro Yoshimoto - Founder & CEO
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Itsuro Yoshimoto founded FIO Technology Inc. in 2006, formerly Yoshimoto Inc. Yoshimoto filed FIO-KeyBO related patents to PCT and USPTO during 2005 ~ 2008.
He proved that FIO-KeyBO has a great potential to become a next de-fact input method in near future by broke a world record of fast text entry.
Prior to Yoshimoto Inc, Yoshimoto lead a web and mobile content division in US operation at Namco. He established a profitable wireless game business foundation in North America for Namco by managing five Independent Software Vendors. .
Yoshimoto started his career at CASIO in 1983. He designed software such as portable Digital Audio Tape recorder (DAT). He mainly worked as an embedded software engineer for 11 years and developed many products. He also worked as a product planner for additional 2 years. Then, he moved to CASIO US R&D center in San Jose for his additional 5 years to manage development of the multi-application CD-ROMs for Windows CE based handheld PC and Pocket PC, and researched new technology trends. Yoshimoto invented many patents.
Yoshimoto hold Bachelor's degree in acoustic design from Kyusyu Institute of Design in Japan, and MBA from Kenich Ohmae graduate school of business.
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Tsuyoshi Taira - Board member
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Tsuyoshi Taira is the CEO of Tazan International Inc, a Venture Capital and Management Consultancy Firm, and he joined FIO Technology Inc. as an initial angel investor.
Taira has been involved with a number of Silicon Valley startup companies as founding investor/director including Atmel Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ATML), Pico Power Technology Inc (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Junglee Corporation (acquired by Amazon.com, NASDAQ: AMZN), Armedia (acquired by Broadcom, NASDAQ: BRCM), Apptivity (acquired by Progress Software, NASDAQ: PRGS) and many others. He has been instrumental in providing seed stage financing, management and marketing advice, especially for the Far Eastern market to the startup companies. Currently he serves on the boards of Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (flash memory company), Nayna Networks, Inc. (networking products and services), Ureach.Com (unified e-mail and voice mail messaging company), Asia-Links Media (Semiconductor components e-commerce) and Teleweb (Call Center in China). In addition, he is on the advisory board of Silicon Motion (Graphic Controller IC), CLCEO (Polarizer), Reveo (Revolutionary Electro Optics Technology Company) and several other companies.
Previously, Taira was Chairman of Sanyo Semiconductor directing Sanyo's US marketing strategy. Most of his career was spent at Sanyo Corporation except for five years when he worked at Fairchild Semiconductor.
Taira graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan University with a BSEE. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Newport Asia Pacific University in March 2000. He has published a number of books including "Audio Amplifier", "Transistor physics And application" as a Co-author and most recently a book on entrepreneurship, "My fellow engineer, let's challenge" from Nikkei BP.
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