Team

Yoichiro Shimizu, President

In Summer 2015, Mr. Shimizu founded Hayabusa Energy USA LLC with vision to acquire oil & gas assets in US not typically available to international investors. Since January 2017, he is operating producing assets in north Texas and actively looking for new acquisition.
From early 2006 to late 2013 Mr. Shimizu represented Mitsubishi Petroleum Development Company as residing country manager in Gabonese Republic in West Africa, supervising 5 assets in various stages from lease negotiation, seismic acquisition, exploration drilling, production and P&A, both as an operator and a partner. During his 8 years in Gabon, he directly handled all contracts & legal matters, procurement, imports/exports, budgeting, and government negotiations.
Before Mitsubishi, he was with JODCO, Japan Oil Development Company (now part of INPEX), where he played a seminal role in the economic valuation and asset management of giant Zakum, Umm Shaif and Umm Al-Dalkh fields, offshore Abu Dhabi. Bachelor of Law, Keio University, Tokyo. Born in 1973 in Kamakura, Japan, married with no children.

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Emery D. Goodman

Manager, Resource Assessment at Bureau Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Dr. Goodman began his professional career with Shell in New Orleans as Exploration Geologist in 1980. After earning his doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara, in Geological Sciences, he joined Exxon’s upstream research arm in 1989 where he worked on regional studies, basin analysis and petroleum systems. After the merger with Mobil in 1999, he began a series of management assignments, including Exploration Technology, Gulf of Mexico Exploration, Middle East Production and Angola Operations Technical Manager roles. After retiring from Exxon Mobil in early 2014, he joined VAALCO Energy as VP Business Development and New Ventures, negotiating and closing A&D transactions in Africa and US Lower 48.

Michio Ikeda

Executive vice president, JX Nippon Oil and Energy from 2012 to 2015, and retired from the company in June 2016. Mr. Ikeda joined Mitsubishi Oil Co., Ltd. in 1974, and served in various roles, such as imported products trading and upstream investment. After the company’s merger with Nippon Oil, he became involved in corporate planning, and strategy. In 2005 Mr. Ikeda became executive officer & general manager, and in 2010 director and senior vice president. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, in Sophia University.

Shuichi Tajima

Senior Advisor, Lincoln International Inc. Director of the Board, TX Entrepreneur Partners. Over 35 years of experience in global finance and capital through Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), GE Capital Japan, Lone Star Fund of Texas.
MBA, University of Chicago. Bachelor of Hitotsubashi University.