James Higa is a venture capital investor at Offline Ventures who reported directly to Steve Jobs as Senior Director in the Office of the CEO at Apple, was a member of the original Macintosh team, and personally negotiated and launched iTunes before becoming an investor. Born in the U.S. but raised in Okinawa with education at Stanford, he has built his career spanning Okinawa, Japan, and Silicon Valley, helping launch Apple Japan and NeXT Japan while now serving on the Silicon Valley Japan Platform committee and U.S.-Japan Council. James Higa is a venture capital investor at Offline Ventures who reported directly to Steve Jobs as Senior Director in the Office of the CEO at Apple, was a member of the original Macintosh team, and personally negotiated and launched iTunes before becoming an investor. Born in the U.S. but raised in Okinawa with education at Stanford, he has built his career spanning Okinawa, Japan, and Silicon Valley, helping launch Apple Japan and NeXT Japan while now serving on the Silicon Valley Japan Platform committee and U.S.-Japan Council.