Susumu Akatsu is a global business executive in the medical device and in vitro diagnostics field with over 25 years of solid success. He has a strong corporate finance acumen and has successfully started up a brand-new company from the ground up. Akatsu is a multicultural and multilingual individual who is fluent in Japanese, Spanish, and English. He was educated in Japan and at top US universities like Michigan Econ and Texas McCombs MBA. He has lived in Mexico and worked with more than 50 countries. As a marketing leader, Akatsu has had multiple new product launches in the US and international markets. He has also led direct sales management in the US and internationally, including GPO contract strategy. Akatsu has a strong international business development drive, and his leadership characteristics include vision, excitement, empowerment, trust, execution, sharing, acceleration, and energized team building.

Akatsu's past roles include senior manager of transcatheter pacing commercial marketing at Medtronic, director of marketing at C.R. BARD, Inc., general manager at U.S ARKRAY, vice president of marketing at U.S ARKRAY, director of marketing at Smiths Medical (Diabetes and Vascular Access), and strategic marketing manager at Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur.