Haruchika Ishii

Business Development Fellow, Toshiba Corporation, Japan

Mr. Haruchika Ishii is a Business Development Fellow at Toshiba Corporation’s Battery Division, where he leads international business development and new market creation for Toshiba’s proprietary lithium-titanate battery technology, SCiB™.

With more than 25 years dedicated to SCiB™ across its full lifecycle, Mr. Ishii served as the lead design engineer of the first-generation SCiB™ cell, and subsequently as the product engineering lead during the commissioning and ramp-up of Toshiba’s Kashiwazaki plant — Toshiba’s flagship mass-production facility purpose-built for SCiB™. He then expanded his career into international business development across China and Asia, and became the inaugural Toshiba representative and executive at TDS Lithium-Ion Battery Gujarat Private Limited (TDSG), the joint venture between Suzuki, Denso, and Toshiba for lithium-ion battery production in India. In recognition of his contributions to the development and commercialization of SCiB™, he was jointly awarded the Technology Award (Tanahashi Award) of the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2014, alongside the SCiB™ core development team at Toshiba.

Building on this end-to-end experience — from cell design and mass manufacturing to international joint ventures and market development — he currently spearheads SCiB™ business expansion across the ASEAN region, including the ongoing next-generation EV bus deployment in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in partnership with Elektromodula Sdn Bhd (EMSB), and the development of lease- and subscription-based battery service models for commercial fleet operators across the region.

Education: Master of Engineering in Polymer Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1999

Awards: Technology Award (Tanahashi Award), The Electrochemical Society of Japan, 2014 (jointly awarded to Toshiba’s SCiB™ development team)