Masashi Sato
Director & COO
SPACETIDE Foundation
Ecosystem Gr. Business Development
Beyond Next Ventures
Masashi Sato, as Co-founder, Director, and COO of the SPACETIDE Foundation, focuses on promoting and advancing the new space industry through the organization’s pioneering private-led space business conference and other initiatives since 2015. Additionally, from 2023, Masashi serves as a Space Tech Advisor at Beyond Next Ventures and is part of its Ecosystem Group.
He was part of ispace from 2019 to 2023, during which he contributed to Japan’s first space IPO. Prior to ispace, Masashi worked as a strategic business consultant at Nomura Research Institute from 2003 to 2019. He holds a B.S. from the University of Tokyo (2001), an M.S. from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo (2003), and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles (2013). Masashi is recognized as a “QZSS Evangelist” by the Cabinet Office of Japan and serves as a committee member of the “Committee of Next-gen Geosynchronous Meteorological Satellite” at the Japan Meteorological Agency.
