Tei Gordon

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Tei A. Gordon (ゴードン禎) Gordon Tei, born June 2, 1970), pronounced Tay, is an American-educated, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist and has lived all through out the Pacific Rim, including Oregon, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, California, and currently resides on the man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan.

Gordon has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on cross-border market entry for Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, gEco Holdings, LLC, Energy Advisor, and venture capital boutique - Aja Ventures, Inc.

[edit] Biography

Starting his first venture Energy Advisor - an energy services company - at age 12, earned Tei honorable mentions in the NY Times and USA Today newspapers.

In 1999, he started a venture capital and M&A company “Aja Ventures” with two partners. He has held various other management positions working at his family energy engineering company; as a trader in the food section of Mitsubishi Corporation and as an Advisor to JETRO (The Japan External Trade Organization). He is also a guest business-strategy lecturer at Waseda University’s extension campus – the “Nakazawa Academy.”

Interest in history, especially in medieval Europe (Scotland) and Japan (Heian Period), fuels his hobby of DNA research through the Gordon DNA Project.

[edit] Current Work

Tei is an independent spokesman to foreign media and Global Communications Advisor to NTT Communications, where he leverages his governmental, international and venture business experience to support its president and CEO in international activities.

Concurrently, Tei has launched a venture company – gEco Holdings, LLC – focusing on cross-border market entry. The enterprise is the result of a graduation thesis completed in 2003, while studying an MBA at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

With a longtime associate, Tei is publishing a book through Shinchosha – the largest publisher in Japan. The book is a non-fiction historical biography about a young Japanese boy named Otokichi that eventually inspired Commodore Perry to open trade relations with Japan in 1854 and dramatically impacted modern Japanese history.