Masatoshi Honda

Masatoshi is co-founder and chief rainmaker of GRA&GREEN Inc, an agricultural biotechnology startup, which uses the cross-family grafting technology with tobacco plant to combine different species and apply cutting-edge genome editing to wide range of plants. This includes disease and drought-resistant rootstock for vegetable seedlings to help deal with desertification. After his study in Biomaterials Engineering at University of Tokyo, where he earned Dean’s Award, he worked for McKinsey & Company. Masatoshi was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018. He has previously served also in the public sector, as an advisor to Governor of Tokyo and Osaka.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.