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Toshinori "Tosh" Arita Principal, Honda Strategic Venturing Tosh is a founder and Principal of Honda Strategic Venturing (HSV), a corporate venture arm of Honda Motor based in Mountain View, California. HSV seeks for technology partners primarily in venture community to excel Honda's innovative activities, and invest in companies to support collaborative partnership to share and harness the innovative power between Honda engineers and entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Honda, he was a founder and CEO of eAgriMac, a startup providing web-based business services to food industry in Japan and Korea. Previously, he was a Merger and Acquisition banker in the investment banking division of JP Morgan in both New York and Tokyo, responsible mainly for Japanese clientele in automotive, chemicals, among others. Before that, he was a part of corporate advisory division of Fuji Bank (now Mizuho Financial Group), involved in US-Japan cross-border M&A transactions. Tosh holds an MBA from Graduate School of Business at University of Chicago and BA from Chuo University in Tokyo. | 