Yuske Taguchi

Earning a Ph.D. in Astronomy at Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Technology, Taguchi started his professional career joining Hitachi Solutions where he was engaged in systems engineering and then to international sales of Interactive Whiteboards for the Oceania region. After working at Dell in sales for the government of Japan and YSI/Nanotech as a sales engineer for water quality instruments and doppler flow meters, he came back to the space industry and joined JAMSS to become an instructor for Astronaut and Flight Controller training, and the JAXA representative for inter-agency coordination of scheduling astronaut training. He later was transferred to JAXA to provide training support for the JAXA Astronauts, especially Norishige Kanai, in preparation for his mission on board the International Space Station (Exp 54/55). Taguchi decided it was time for him to return to the private sector, and after working at Astroscale for Sales & Marketing, next at Space BD for business development in North America and Oceania, and then GITAI Japan as the first sales representative, he joined Axiom Space in November 2022 as the APAC Sales Manager. Currently also the Director for Space at ISIC Japan, and Mentor for Space at XPonential Technology Partners.