Waichiro Hayashi is a Managing Partner and the founder of Hayashi Partners. As an experienced executive recruiter and senior executive for multinational corporations, he provides consultative support and expertise for firms that believe leadership change and/or counseling will dramatically improve performance. He is a former Partner at Heidrick & Struggles in Tokyo where he focused on senior level assignments for multinational firms undertaking business in Japan and Asia-Pacific in the Industrial and Technology Practices.

At Heidrick & Struggles, he was responsible for the firm’s automobile practice in Asia-Pacific and the firm’s Real Estate Practice in Japan. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, he was Managing Director of United Technologies Research Center in Japan where he was responsible for developing and executing the organization’s programs in Japan and Asia-Pacific. At the Research Center, he managed all collaborative programs with United Technologies’ corporate and academic partners in Asia. He also managed the Research Center’s China ventures by developing collaborative corporate, university and government efforts to design and develop innovative mass housing in China.

He was a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Tokyo. Other career experience includes various senior positions in sales, marketing, product development and strategy at Honeywell, Inc. He also has been a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he participated actively in the Future of Automobile Program and later managed programs at MIT for The Future Workplace and Building Technology.

Mr. Hayashi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, a Master’s of City Planning degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a full graduate fellowship from the US government (HUD), and is a doctoral candidate sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education at the University of Tokyo. Mr. Hayashi was born in Kumamoto, Japan, raised in Boston, Massachusetts and is a naturalized US citizen.