Corporates
We'll help you thrive through cross-border collaboration, investment in innovation and new business creation

We provide hands-on support to help the world's biggest companies future-proof their businesses by developing and executing global expansion, innovation and investment strategies.
Perhaps you're looking to raise your productivity, hit ambitious carbon reduction targets, or increase your sales through the creation of new businesses.
Whatever your goals, our on-the-ground specialists will help you transform your business by collaborating with the most innovative tech startups, universities, investors and other organisations in Europe, North America and Asia.
A vital element of our work in this field is conducted through the Intralink Innovation Network – our members’ group comprising many of the world’s most innovative universities, incubators, accelerators and VCs.
These pioneering organisations play a key role in enabling large corporations to re-engineer their businesses, sustain their levels of international competitiveness, and develop next-generation products and services.
If you're one of them, feel free to sign up.
Our services
We provide a wide range of services designed to help multinationals find new engines of growth, digitise their operations and transform into sustainability leaders.
Insights & intelligence
Through our dedicated, multilingual teams based across Europe, America and Asia, we’ll research and report on your target markets, helping you to assess the latest market trends, competitors, supply chain and regulatory landscapes, and much more.
Sourcing & venturing
We will identify and engage the best international companies for you to collaborate with, manage PoCs and help you achieve real results through local, hands-on support.
Business development
We will help you take your existing products into new markets in Europe, North America and Asia, find new products for your home market, or create brand new businesses through collaboration or acquisition.
Investment support
Whether you want to set up your own offshore venture fund, take an LP position in independent, third-party funds or invest directly into companies, we will help you research, develop and execute the best strategy for you.
Leadership

Huw Thomas
Huw heads up our Corporate Services group and is responsible for the delivery of innovation, investment, business development and market research initiatives for our corporate clients. A fluent Japanese speaker, Huw lived in Japan for 20 years before moving back to the UK in 2015.

Mike Aoki
Based in our Silicon Valley office, Mike leads our corporate development team across the US, Canada and Latin America. Born in Texas, graduating from Tokyo’s Waseda University and studying at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, Mike first worked for an advertising agency in Japan, then Sanyo Trading Co. Ltd, for which he developed its American sales channels. He also brings expertise in telecoms, extended reality (XR), the metaverse, digital health and the circular economy.

James Francis
Originally from London, James joined Intralink Japan in 2011, initially working as part of Intralink's market entry team, specialising in automotive, industrial solutions, SaaS and telecoms. Since 2019, he's been driving business development initiatives in Europe and Japan for Intralink's Corporate Services division. James is currently based in Intralink's London office and is fluent in Japanese.

Jack Porter
Jack joined Intralink in 2017 and is Head of Delivery for our Corporate Services team in Europe. He leads research, innovation, and business development projects for major Asian corporates, supporting their growth and technology strategies. Prior to Intralink, Jack worked in product development at Hitachi Maxell UK and in brand marketing at Hyundai Motor UK. Jack is fluent in Japanese and Korean.

Kris Miller
Kris oversees successful delivery of corporate development projects from our Los Angeles office, having joined Intralink in 2019. He holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His key areas of expertise include advanced computational techniques in neuroscience and medical technology, extending into fields such as healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, medtech, life sciences and insurtech.
Intralink has been indispensable in helping us host our annual Open Innovation contest in 15 cities worldwide. The strength of their sourcing ability is unparalleled.
Client stories
Cashless payment ecosystem
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu appointed us to support their innovation programme to explore new fintech business models and technologies. We were asked to identify and facilitate discussions with some of the top European startups and partner organisations in the space.
We used our extensive network to secure face-to-face meetings for Fujitsu and its partners – over a four-day visit – with 14 organisations in the UK, Germany and Denmark.
At the end of the visit, we organised a panel discussion with UK fintech industry experts. We also facilitated one-on-one workshops to help the client delegation zero-in on consumer trends and opportunity areas in the 'cashless society' in order to refine its innovation strategy further.
Microgrid opportunities
ENEOS, one of Japan's largest and oldest oil companies, appointed Intralink us to investigate the state of innovation in the European and North American microgrid market as part of its ESG strategy overhaul.
Our task was to help ENEOS learn from successful microgrid deployments and to outline short, mid and long-term strategic sustainability recommendations.
Over the course of 16 weeks, our team analysed the overarching trends, the key players and the way the global supply chain works – focusing on hardware, software and new business models. We looked at successful case studies across the UK, Germany, Denmark and the USA and analysed local policies, regulations and pricing. We summarised this in a strategy report, and listed 25 startups with which ENEOS could collaborate.
Innovation Network
Our Innovation Network is our curated ecosystem of leading universities, research institutes, investors, accelerators and incubators across Europe, North America and Asia.
Through the network, we have rapid access to thousands of startups and scaleups across multiple technologies and sectors. We will leverage this network to find the best possible partners for your innovation activities.
Contact our network manager, Takuya Gamboni, to learn more.
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Government organisations
Academic organisations
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Discover what we can do for you.
We’d welcome the chance to discuss your plans and how we could support your business.