Mr. Doug Shinsato

biography

Doug Shinsato leads ChampionScott Partners' work focused on Japan. He is uniquely qualified as a search consultant to assist technology companies entering into or expanding in Japan to build leadership teams that can serve as the bridge between cultures.

Doug is a bilingual, bicultural Japanese-American executive who had a long and highly successful career in consulting and sales-driven corporate management prior to becoming a partner with ChampionScott Partners. The companies he has worked for value him as team builder, change agent and leader with a breadth of line management experience across industries and functions. Doug brings our clients expertise, perspective and critical judgment gained from his work in operational roles and as a consultant to well-established and early stage technology companies in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Southeast Asia and India.

Prior to joining ChampionScott Partners, Doug served as the President, Japan for leading technology companies such as PTC and Siebel Systems and as head of Asia Pacific for Autodesk, Interactive Intelligence and Genesys Labs. He served as the only non-Japanese member of the board of directors of Deloitte Tohmatsu Japan, where he led a 500+ person consulting group in Tokyo. Doug later served as the Regional Vice President in charge of the management services and IT consulting practices at EDS/A.T. Kearney in Japan, where he also served as a Board Member for EDS' Japanese operations.

Earlier, Doug worked in Japan as a strategy consultant focused on information and communications technology for the Boston Consulting Group and Price Waterhouse, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Business School of Sophia University in Tokyo.

Doug received his BA and MBA from the University of Southern California. He also earned a JD from Stanford Law School, and is a member of the California State Bar and Washington, D.C. Bar.