Kohei Okamoto

Kohei Okamoto is an experienced professional currently serving as Deputy General Manager of Backlight Business Planning at Nichia Corporation since April 2021, after holding the role of Senior Research Scientist in the same division. Prior to joining Nichia, Kohei worked at HOYA Corporation as General Manager of CO/OE Sales in the Optics Section and earlier as Overseas Sales and Marketing Manager for Colored and Opto-Electronics glass. Experience also includes roles at Synaptics Incorporated, where responsibilities included Senior Product Marketing Manager and Senior Program Manager focusing on display driver ICs for VR/AR. Kohei has held various positions at Renesas SP Drivers Inc. and Renesas Electronics Corporation specializing in display driver IC marketing and technical support. Additionally, Kohei’s career began at NEC Electronics, involving application engineering of display driver ICs. Kohei holds a degree from Rikkyo University.