Career
Gordon has received international recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on cross-border market entry for Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, gEco Holdings, Limited Liability Company, Energy Advisor, and venture capital/Acquisitions boutique - Aja Ventures, Incorporated.
Starting his first venture Energy Advisor - an energy services company - at age 12, earned Tei honorable mentions in the New York Times and United States of America Today newspapers. He has held various other management positions working at his family energy conservation and engineering company. As a trader in the food section of Mitsubishi Corporation and as an Advisor to JETRO (The Japan External Trade Organization).
He is also a guest business-strategy lecturer at Waseda University"s extension campus – the “Nakazawa Academy.”
His interests include history, especially related to (Scotland) and early-Japan (Heian Period).
Tei is currently running the international market-entry consulting and trading company gEco Holdings, Limited Liability Company "gEco." The enterprise is the result of a graduation thesis completed in 2003, while studying an Master of Business Administration at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He is a former independent spokesman to foreign media and Global Communications Advisor to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Communications, where he leveraged governmental, international and venture business experience to support its president and Chief Executive Officer in international activities.
Tei is a family representative for Cock o" the North - Single Malt Scotch Whisky Liqueur - in Japan, as well as agent for over a dozen award-winning wineries and distilleries specializing in Pinot Noir wines from Oregon. Concurrently, Tei is working as conducting marketing and promotion in Japan for (Kona Brewing Company) of Hawaii.
With a longtime associate, Tei is publishing a book through Shinchosha – the largest publisher in Japan.
The book is a non-fiction historical biography about a young Japanese boy named Otokichi that eventually inspired Commodore Perry to open trade relations with Japan in 1854 and dramatically impacted modern Japanese history.
