Yoshihiro Akiyama is a Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Affiliate; founder and CEO of Next Process Institute, Ltd.; and Visiting Professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology. He provides PSP Instructor and TSP Coach Training as an SEI TSP Strategic Partner for software organizations and academic institutions in Japan and Southeast Asia and Introduction to CMMI for Development training as a CMMI Partner. After receiving his PhD in participle physics in 1974, he worked as a systems engineer, manager, and senior technical staff member at IBM in Japan and U.S. oversea assignments until 2006. He is a member of PMI, IEEE, ACM, IPSJ, and the Society of Project Management.