Steve Shipley

Steve Shipley has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Steve began their career as an English Language Teacher in the Japan Exchange & Teaching Programme with the Sendai City Board of Education in 1999. After that, they worked as a Programme Coordinator at the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations from 2003 to 2005. In 2006, they joined Intralink Limited as a General Manager before transitioning to Ubiquisys as a Japan BD in the same year. In 2009, they became the President at Intralink KK for a year. Steve then served as the Japan Country Manager/Managing Director and VP Sales Asia-PAC at Ubiquisys - Now Part of Cisco from 2010 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, they worked as the APJ Regional Sales Manager - Small Cells at Cisco. In 2014, they joined FUNimation (A Group 1200 Media Company) and held the position of VP Global Business Development and Japan Representative Director until 2018. Steve then moved to Airspan Networks and assumed the role of VP Sales - East Asia. Currently, they are the Managing Director at Airspan Japan.

Steve Shipley completed their B.A. degree in Government, Economics, and Japanese at The University of Texas at Austin from 1997 to 1999. Later, they pursued an MBA degree in Global Business Strategy at The University of Texas at Dallas from 2003 to 2005.