Yumi Yamamoto

Yumi has more than 15 years of experience in project management across many fields. She attended university in the United States in San Francisco, where she studied psychology. After graduation, Yumi moved back to Tokyo where she began her career as a legal assistant at a patent law office for eight years, focusing on problem-solving and coordination of in-bound patent projects in the technical field of biology and chemistry. 

After a period of time working  in the real estate industry, where she worked as a sales agent, Yumi joined the founding team of a medical device startup developing an 8K resolution laparoscopy system. In this capacity, she was involved in day-to-day operations of many aspects including R&D, intellectual property administration, market launch planning, sales/marketing and post-acquisition integration of internal processes. Yumi joined MCRA Japan in 2020 and she uses her skills to develop best practices for project management and client engagement. She currently manages business development and oversees the project management aspect of our services.