Kei Shimada is a space executive and award-winning innovation leader with a track record of creating world-first, region-first, and industry-first products and services. He is the Founder and CEO of Narravity, where he is helping suborbital rocket companies achieve operational excellence to increase launch cadence, improve payload integration, and unlock new revenue opportunities.

He also serves as Chief Business Officer of Innovative Space Carrier (ISC), leading global business strategy for the company’s mission to make space universal by 2040 through the development of a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle capable of enabling point-to-point travel anywhere on Earth in under 60 minutes. Previously, he was Global Innovation Director of Dentsu, and Lab Leader at IBM Japan.