Motoki Gotanda
Motoki Gotanda
Chairman, Escola 101 Inc. (高第瓏股份有限公司)
Born in 1977 in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, and raised near Tokyo. Graduated from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. MBA, ESADE Business School, Spain.
He joined Cisco Systems as one of its first graduate hires in Japan, then moved to Taiwan after an international marriage, working at semiconductor and telecommunications equipment makers in the Hsinchu Science Park. He later studied for an MBA in Barcelona, Spain, as the only Japanese student, learning alongside future leaders from around the world and developing an international perspective. After graduating, the global financial crisis prompted his return to Japan, where he worked in business development at global companies such as Huawei and Salesforce. At WingArc1st, he drove overseas and new businesses.
In 2017, he moved to Taiwan for the second time. He served as head of corporate planning at a Japanese company and as department head of management strategy and overseas business at a major Taiwanese restaurant group. He participated in launching a Taiwan joint venture of a company listed on the TSE Prime Market and, as General Manager, achieved the group's only profitable overseas business.
In response to growing public–private collaboration between Japan and Taiwan, he founded Escola 101 Inc. in 2024, providing global management, operational agency, and investment support to companies in both countries.

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