Babson Magazine

Spring 2014

News, Notes + Nods

Graduate

Kei Mashimo, MBA’93

The Babson Alumni Club of Japan held its annual meeting on Nov. 19 in Tokyo. Among the event’s 48 attendees were (from left) Seiichi Sato, MBA’85, club vice chairman; Motoya Okada, MBA’79, club vice chairman; Junichi Murata, MBA’60, H’92, club chairman; and Akio Toyoda, MBA’82, club vice chairman. The meeting was held at Intersect by Lexus, a collaborative space with cars, retail shops, a restaurant, and a coffee bar. Club member Kei Mashimo emails, “It was exciting to talk face to face at the meeting with the superstar CEOs of Toyota, retail company Aeon, and more.”