Mr. Junichiro Katayama is a president of Semco Co., Ltd., the leading distributor of professional pest management products. Semco has been concentrating on the innovating an artificial intelligence based pest monitoring system which will potentially change the way of pest management strategy.
He graduated from Kyoto University (BA in Law) in Japan and the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Economics) in UK. he worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan before joining in Semco which his father established 1969. He is an Honorary President of Federation of Asia and Oceania Pest Managers Association (FAOPMA) and served as a Board of Director for more than 10 years. He is also involved in international aid activities as a Vice President of The Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development (NICCO), a prominent Japanese Non-Governmental Organization established in 1979. Together with Japan Pest Control Association, NICCO had conducted the post-Tsunami fly management project in Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.