Seiji Arao runs both the Diamond Cutter Institute Global and the Sedona College of International Management from Sedona, Arizona. He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Holds a Bachelor in Entrepreneurship and Business Management, and a Masters in Environmental Economics. He co-founded a company of below the line marketing, worked as a project manager at several NGO’s for three years, and later on founded a socially responsible company that supports indigenous communities in Mexico. After meeting Geshe Michael Roach in 2011, he started studying the Diamond Cutter Institute System, later on he started working as the Executive Vice-President of DCIG/SCIM & being one of the 10 primary translators of the Diamond Cutter Classics, also known as the mixed nuts.