Summary
Yasuaki Hasebe is a physician-turned-founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building solutions that improve patient access to innovative medicines, currently leading SmarTrial, a productivity platform streamlining communications and project management across sponsors, CROs, and sites. He combines clinical training and hands-on drug development experience—from PoC to Phase 3—with strategy consulting and commercial leadership at Novartis, bringing rare domain fluency in both medicine and life-science business strategy. As a venture partner supporting biotech/VC and an advisor to Japan’s AMED translational research program, he bridges startup execution, due diligence, and public-sector healthcare priorities. Known for tackling the “root causes” of trial inefficiency, he leads multidisciplinary and global teams to translate clinical complexity into pragmatic software and operational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine, Doctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine at Nagoya University School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Family medicine, Infectious diseases, Doctor of Medicine - MD, Family medicine, Infectious diseases at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Japanese, English