Haruka Ikegami
Japan
Haruka Ikegami is a Threat Intelligence Analyst at KELA, an Israeli threat intelligence company based in Tel Aviv, and with offices in Tokyo. Haruka handles accounts for KELA’s Japanese clients, and is passionate about sourcing Israeli cyber intelligence solutions for Japan.
Prior to moving to Israel, Haruka worked as a business consultant to companies in the financial and manufacturing industries through her role as a Senior Associate at PwC Japan. Haruka has a rich experience in project management
and developing business strategies, overseeing various project sizes with global resources across PwC in US, Europe and Asia.
Among her consulting roles at PwC, she provided advisory services to top tier Japanese and global financial institutions in areas of operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and system implementation management. In addition, she served as the team lead for industry leading Japanese manufacturing companies, helping them expand their growth and product sales in Japan and overseas.
Haruka also served as team leader of the Diversity & Inclusion team while at PwC, where she coordinated workshops to raise cultural and gender diversity awareness.
Haruka’s other experience also includes interning at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, where she conducted a research project on micro-finance as part of her studies in Development Economics at the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.