Media & Speaking

Interviews and features about Toyo Ushioda, founder of World Finance Edu, startup pitch judging across Japan and Southeast Asia, and talks delivered across Singapore's startup and university ecosystem.

Featured interviews
Executives Diary · USA
Toyoyuki "Toyo" Ushioda: The Power of Never Feeling Finished
A US publication profiling 1,000+ operating executives from 20+ countries. Its editorial team reached out to feature Toyo's story, tracing the path from aspiring musician to global head of corporate planning, and the philosophy behind it.
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Maestro · Australia / Singapore
Meet the Maestro: Toyoyuki
Maestro is a vetted platform for fractional executives and independent consultants with 10+ years of leadership experience. Featured in its expert interview series.
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Ricky Foo · The book "Jobhunting"
Featured in the book "Jobhunting", based on an in-depth interview
Headhunter, leadership advisor and author Ricky Foo interviewed Toyo as a real-world case of navigating a non-linear career. The story based on this interview also appears in his published book "Jobhunting: Navigating Your Career Journey for Professional Fulfilment".
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BizReach · Japan
From aspiring musician to global division head (Japanese)
BizReach, one of Japan's leading career platforms, featured Toyo's comeback career story in its career interview series.
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Startup pitch judging
GRIC2025 · Japan
Pitch judge at GRIC2025 (Growth Industry Conference)
GRIC is one of Japan's largest growth industry conferences, hosted by for Startups, Inc. Toyo served as a judge for GRIC PITCH, held in Shibuya, Tokyo in November 2025 with over 11,000 registrations.
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ATCDS2025 · Malaysia
Pitch judge at the ASEAN Technology Cooperation & Development Summit 2025
An official programme under Malaysia's ASEAN Chairmanship 2025, organised by Intrinsic SEA and held at MITEC in Kuala Lumpur in November 2025, with more than 2,000 onsite delegates from 13 countries. Toyo judged startup pitches alongside venture capital firms including Google, Gobi Partners and Plug and Play.
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Speaking & teaching
Teaching on the Mentogram programme
Program Director and Founding Partner, Mentogram School of Finance. Toyo directs the school's six-month postgraduate programme in global finance and AI, and teaches corporate finance on the Mentogram MBA programme. Qualifications are awarded by Woolf, an accredited higher education institution in Malta operating under the European Qualifications Framework. Visit the School of Finance › · See the faculty list on Woolf ›
Startup valuation workshop at SGInnovate, Singapore
Founder workshop at SGInnovate, Singapore: "Startup Valuation Justification through Financial Projections".
Lecture at National GRIP
Lecturing deep-tech founders on financial projections and investor readiness at National GRIP, Singapore's national venture creation programme run by NUS and NTU.
NUS real estate bidding simulation
Guest session for the NUS Real Estate Fund Management Club: a live land-bidding simulation showing how a 12% target IRR shifts under realistic assumptions.
Guest lecture on communication at SUTD, Singapore
Guest lecture at the Singapore University of Technology and Design on effective communication, using the startup pitch structure as the worked example: each section answers the question the audience naturally asks next.

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