Shigeo Taniuchi

Shigeo Taniuchi is a Japanese entrepreneur and executive with more than 25 years of experience operating across global pharmaceutical, biotech, and sustainability markets. A native Japanese speaker with professional fluency in English and Chinese, he built his career in the life sciences industry, holding senior roles at organisations including Santen Pharmaceutical in Osaka and Sales-Link, where he developed expertise in global commercial strategy, corporate strategy execution, business development, and international market expansion across Japan, China, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States. He holds a master's degree from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

In the early 2020s, Taniuchi made a deliberate career pivot toward climate technology, relocating to Singapore to launch a new venture. He co-founded LEVELUP Climate Tech, a carbon accounting startup, before orchestrating a strategic merger that created the company now known as Zevero. The merger combined LEVELUP's platform and expertise with those of an existing UK-based carbon accounting team — George Wade and Ben Richardson — who had been building sustainability solutions for growing businesses since 2021. Under the merged entity, Taniuchi assumed the role of Co-Founder and Global CEO, with the combined team positioned to serve clients across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States.

As CEO of Zevero, Taniuchi has built the company into a platform operating across more than 20 countries, working with major clients including Asahi Group, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Menicon, and waterdrop. His leadership has been particularly instrumental in Zevero's expansion into Japan and wider Asia-Pacific, where regulatory frameworks such as the SSBJ Standards and growing corporate sustainability mandates are creating strong demand for enterprise-grade carbon management tools. He has spoken at events including the Global Eco-Innovation Forum hosted by the Korean government in conjunction with the Regional APEC SME Conference.

Zevero raised a $7 million seed round in September 2024 led by Spiral Capital, and in March 2026 closed a further $7 million funding round — backed by Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital, and Deep 30 — bringing total capital raised to $14 million. Taniuchi has positioned Zevero as a company that helps businesses treat sustainability the way they treat finance: as a continuous, data-driven discipline rather than an annual reporting exercise.