Michael Carrier

About Michael Carrier

Global Business Leader | 25+ Years Launching and Growing Technology & Entertainment Businesses in the US and Japan. I have a passion for starting new businesses, service lines and products, figuring out how to convert the seed of an original idea into a scalable operation and ultimately a sustainable business model. I love working with partners to align competencies and combine creative and technology capabilities into entirely new and different problem-solving approaches. It gives me great joy identifying, developing and arranging the building blocks of an organization - including mission, values, brand talent, processes, tools - into a high performance team.In my experience, nothing is more professionally fulfilling than achieving and exceeding ambitious goals as a collaborative team - especially against the so-called wisdom of pundits.Over the last 25+ years, I have had the good fortune of living and working in 20+ countries, making my second home in Japan. From that, I\'ve learned how to effectively bridge business customs, cultures and languages, combining the best that both have to offer.Ultimately, I believe in what my father taught me, serendipity: If you work hard and do the right thing all the time, good luck will happen to you. I.e, you create your own good luck.

Experience

1. Advisor

   Etc - Entertainment Technology Center Usc

   Jan 2026 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Unified Hybrid AI Production

Education

• UCLA Anderson School of Management

  Executive MBA

  2006 — 2008

• Sophia University

  Summer Program (Tokyo, Japan), Business

  1989 — 1989

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Certificate Program, Generative AI

• Harvard Business School

  Certificate Program, Strategic Marketing Management

  1999 — 1999

• Nagoya University

  Research Scholar (Nagoya, Japan), Graduate School of Economics

  1991 — 1992

• Loyola Marymount University

  BA, Film and Asian Studies

  1986 — 1990