Hiroaki Ohta is a General Partner at WASEDA University Ventures (WUV), CTO and Co-founder of Blue Laser Fusion Inc., and Advisor in the Office of the President at WASEDA University. He also serves as a board director for Nanofiber Quantum Technologies, Power Diamond Systems, and Quanmatic. Previously, he was President and CEO of ACSL, a drone-related startup, from 2016, leading to its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in 2018. He joined McKinsey & Company in 2010 and worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2008 to 2010. In 2008, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. He also conducted research at Rohm from 2004 to 2007. He holds a Ph.D. from Kyoto University.