Takashi Nishikawa

About

Takashi Nishikawa is a Director of Panasonic Ventures, L.L.C. and a founding team member and Director of Conductive Ventures. With a long career at Panasonic in Japan along with his extensive experiences in Silicon Valley, Takashi discovers new ways startups can effectively collaborate and engage with Panasonic and its key partners. Takashi joined Panasonic in 1992 and worked on the compound semiconductor material and device development. After working on power transistors for some of the earliest cellular phones, he began product development of short wavelength laser diodes for Blu-ray. While developing technology for Blu-ray, Takashi received his first experience with outside technology disruption with the emergence of (gallium nitride) GaN, which caused the shutdown of his internal project. Eventually, he transitioned his career as a product engineer to R&D strategy and planning. Through his experiences developing long-term roadmaps, he soon discovered that incremental improvements

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Cupertino, US