How to create businesses from new technologies and unique ideas?

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i-BuC LLC

President & CEO

Kaoru Yaegashi

Introduction of “i-BuC”international

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i-BuC LLC is a company established to support business

development and creation, partnering with and providing high-

quality and creative support to client companies, public

organizations, and research institutes that aim at developing

new businesses in global markets.

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� We promote business design and planning in order to commercialize various

potential businesses pursuant to global market requirements, based on the

innovative technologies of client companies, public organizations, and research

institutes, utilizing and combining with outside technologies as necessary.

� We support the development and creation of new businesses by researching and

searching out leading-edge and innovative technologies around the world, and

introducing them to clients on a timely basis.

� We provide the necessary support to successfully develop partnerships with

overseas firms for global business development, and render assistance in areas

such as collaborative research, joint ventures, M&A, marketing and sales activities.

� We provide patent investigations, the suggestion of the intellectual properties’

strategy, a technical evaluation and general IP analysis service. IPSAR (Intellectual

Property Strategic Analysis Report)

� We support global human-resource development for clients. GBPEP (Global

Business Person Education Program)


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Our major services include supporting commercialization through designing and

planning businesses to meet global market requirements, introducing new technologies,

supporting M&A and joint ventures, providing innovative technologies, and conducting

market research.

Examples of our representative services:

• Introducing new potential technologies

• Evaluating new innovative technologies

• Developing business strategies and providing consultation

• Supporting negotiations for M&A, joint ventures, and licensing.

• Supporting fundrising and introducing potential investors for start-up companies

• Managing intellectual property, patent etc., and

providing IPSAR (Intellectual Property Strategic Report)

• Providing and supporting education and training programs for global business persons and

entrepreneurs, GBPEP (Global Business Person Education Program)

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Services

Focal Industries

Lithium-ion batteries, photovoltaic cells, solar power plants,

EDLC, fuel cells, and other energy-related services.

Comprehensive energy management, displays, LEDs, medical

devices, water treatment, and advanced materials. Nano-

materials, ion liquid, and ion-liquid related high-function

materials.

Area

US (especially, Silicon Valley), Japan, Europe, India, Singapore,

Korea, China, Taiwan, and others.


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Worldwide


Area Name Location Covered area

Japani-BuC,

Ltd.Tokyo, Japan

Japan, Taiwan,

South East Asia

USi-BuC

LLC

Sunnyvale,

California,

US

North America

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Message From CEO

“It’s the age of reform.” “We can’t get by with what we’ve been doing.” These days,

what decides whether a company, or even a country for that matter, will survive is

its ability to react to new environments within the uncertainty that surrounds

business management.

We at i-BuC see open innovation in its true sense as putting the pieces of a puzzle

together from the leading-edge technologies and ideas around the world, and we

devote ourselves to our business creation and support activities with the goal of

fostering innovation by organically combining and then connecting them for new

business. Our company was founded not only to support new business development


and projects for venture companies and major global players, but also with the goal of international

linkage of businesses, universities, and research organizations to accelerate the business process and

help create new business and employment.

We use our global network to provide not only specialized technology from our executive advisors and

senior consultants, but also cooperation and support across fields and national boundaries from a wide

range of perspectives.

We also have global human-resources development, so that our thinking will spread to other places

through an increase in entrepreneurs and businesspeople around the world.

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Kaoru Yaegashi CEO & President


Executive Team

Kaoru Yaegashi started out establishing businesses in semiconductor-related machinery and business development, and creating joint business organization with Japanese companies at Hoechst (Medical Division: Sanofi; Specialty Chemicals Clariant; Basic Chemistry: Celanese, at present).

He next moved on to take part in business developing as a management team member at Celgard Inc. (current Polypore International Inc.), comprised of three divisions: separators for lithium batteries; hollow fibers for blood oxygenation; and degasification module for water processing in semiconductor industry. While there, he established and served as President

of Celgard K.K. in Japan. He concurrently held directorship posts in other businesses in the same group, including the Asia-Pacific division of Daramic, Inc., the world’s largest lead battery separator company, and Battery Separator Shanghai Co. Ltd., founded as the group’s local Chinese corporation in response to the expansion of the lithium battery market in China.

Next, he served as Senior Vice President at the Silicon Valley nanotech firm NanoGram Corporation and President of NanoGram K.K. in Japan. After sale to Teijin Ltd. of the company, he was engaged in management of the company as a member of the Teijin group. Putting his wide experience in business creation and development, cross-border large-business management, and venture business management to use, he formed i-BuC to establish businesses by supporting venture companies and world class firms.

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Executive Team

Masatsugu Kondo Executive Adviser

An experienced board member of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (current

Panasonic Corporation) and President of Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd.

(current Panasonic Energy Company), Masatsugu Kondo has wide experience and

knowledge of lithium-ion batteries, other energy storage devices and their markets,

and also company management including overseas business development.

Dave Corbin Executive Adviser

Dave Corbin has experience as President and board member of high-tech companies

such as CEO of NanoGram Corporation, CEO of BrightScale Inc., CEO of Coolingy, Inc.,

CEO of Kovio Interim, VP of Business Development at Silicon Light Machines, and

Director of MIPS Technologies Inc. He formerly worked at Intel, and specializes in

electronic engineering.


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Executive Team


Yoshiharu Nakajima, Ph.D. Executive Adviser

Yoshiharu Nakajima has experience of Professor,

Nagaoka University of Technology; Professor, Tokyo

Institute of Technology; Deputy Group General

Manager, Cooperative R&D Group, Sharp

Corporation; Director, ASET (Association of Super-

Advanced Electronics Technologies, Japanese

Government Project / METI Project), Sharp

Corporation; and Executive Vice President, Sharp

Laboratories of Europe, Ltd.(Oxford).

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Executive Team

Masayuki Shobayashi Executive Adviser

Experienced important positions for the development of intellectual property fields in

Japan including Vice Chairman of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association. Current

Head of Shobayashi International Patent and Trademark Office. Patent Attorney.


Shiv Chiruvolu, Ph.D. Executive Adviser

Dr. Chiruvolu has about 15 years of experience in advanced technology development

including lead roles in semiconductor materials processing, nano-materials synthesis,

and the development of composites and nano-materials based product applications.

He is most recently Senior Vice President & CTO of NanoGram Corporation, a nano-

materials company. He started at Applied Materials.

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CSR


We at i-BuC focus on establishing a sustainable society by supporting development and business processes for the reduction of resource and energy, use and promotion of renewable energy.- we actively promote venture business and business creation

related to renewable energy such as solar cells and wind power generation.

- For energy storage, we cooperate in the diffusion of high-performance battery materials, innovative battery-free thermal storage, and others.

- In the energy-saving field, we also support business creation based on cutting-edge affordable technologies such as low-energy lighting and improved-performance LEDs.

It might be just the germ of an idea in its initial stages, but one newly-developed technology may have the potential to change the structure and way of thinking for a whole society, and thus create a society that uses much less energy. This is why we hope to find ideas and R&D topics that could otherwise be lost, introduce them to society, and develop them as businesses.

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