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James H. Nakagawa
CEO & Chief Care Architect | Mobile Healthcare Inc.,
In 2003, Canadian-born James Nakagawa began imagining a new kind of society where patients could be empowered using mobile technology to take their health issues, literally, into their own hands, monitoring their daily medication, nutritional intake via food photos and other key health indicators. In 2011, Mobile Healthcare Inc’s flagship product, lifewatcher, is on its way to becoming the global cloud platform for remote patient self-care in the arena of diabetes, obesity and other lifestyle related illnesses.
Mr. Nakagawa is a 2009 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award Winner in Healthcare and later that year was named as an “Asia Pacific New Leader” in the Generation 21 Dialogue in Jakarta, hosted by the President of Indonesia and Mckinsey & Co. In September 2007 he won the Red Herring 100 Asia Award in Hong Kong and Mobile Healthcare Inc., was placed as a Top 6 Finalist for the Asian Wall Street Journal Innovation@Entrepolis Awards that were held in Singapore in November. Following this, In December 2007, his lifewatcher solution became a Red Herring 100 Global Award Winner in Seattle, described as one of the most promising private technology ventures in the world.
From 1993 to 2003, prior to founding Mobile Healthcare Inc, Nakagawa was President of TWI Ltd, helping senior management in financial institutions tailor and develop web-centric solutions for delivering online trading services.
Together with his wife Megumi, they developed and operated Japan’s first comprehensive cancer patient support site as a philanthropic endeavor, dedicated to his late father’s battle with cancer.
Nakagawa was educated at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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