Amitt Mahajan

Founder of MyMiniLife/FarmVille; Was CTO of @zynga Japan; Created @zynga's core game framework; Investor in @heyday, @pixelapse, @hipmunk
http://www.amitt.com

Craig Mod

Writer, designer. Previously product designer for @flipboard. Advisor for @medium, @955dreams. Mentor at @500startups & @designer-fund. Investor in @oyster, @editorially, @tokyo-otaku-mode, @timbuktu-labs. 2011 TechFellow. 2012 MacDowell fellow.
http://craigmod.com/journal/

Norman Rohr

Head APAC SMB Acquisition Mktg, @google PAST: Global Finance Lead b2b Mktg, @google Head Finance & Operations, @svox (acquired by Nuance)

Kazuya Minami

Advising early stage startups globally as Trailnavi, Inc. (Founded in April, 2013) Invested in @twitter, @path and etc. when I worked at Digital Garage.

Justin Waldron

Founder @zynga

Christine Tsai

Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
http://christinetsai.co

Justin Sullivan

Internet entrpreneur + Angel. Founded Sublime IP. Managed Australia's first ISP; >20 years Internet experience. @insead-1 MBA. IP Attorney

Joi Ito

Director of the MIT Media Lab, Board Member of Sony, New York TImes, Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Tucows, Mozilla Foundation. Early stage investor.
http://joi.ito.com/

Wicks Walker

Founder of @division-films, @w4, Hydra, Investor in Path, Playsino, Titan Gaming, @evertune, @mp3-com, @net2phone

Shogo Kawada

Co-founder of DeNA

Eric Kwan

Founding engineer at Operator.com • Ex-Facebook, Yahoo • Studied at Stanford, CMU • Specialized in User Acquisition, Internationalization & Growth • Angel

Nobutake Suzuki

Venture Capitalist and Partner at Global Brain Corp.

Tomoya Sasaki

デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab

Ryota Matsuzaki

Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.

Hiro Maeda

Managing Partner of BEENOS - A Tokyo-based investment program. - http://beenos.com
http://hiromaeda.com

Jonathan Matus

CEO @zendrive. Making Driving A Rewarding Experience. Marketing, Product & Strategy @android, @facebook @boston-consulting-group

Daniel Saito

Co-Founder of @rimnet-k-k, @mysql K.K., @redrobot-k-k; Worked at News Corporation, NTT DoCoMo R&D, @mysql and Sun.

Akinori "Aki" Koto

Partner at WiL, a venture capitalist to bridge US and Japan, ex-Digital Garage.

Mathias Schilling

Entrepreneurial VC with truly global exposure

Kaz Terada

CEO of A2O,Inc., President of TiE Japan, Mentor of 500 StartUps, Advisor of Kamiyama Foundation and Ex.Managing Director of ITOCHU Technology Ventures,Inc.

Jonathan Yaffe

CEO @anyroad • Cognitive Neuroscience at @berkeley • Founded KAIS International School in Tokyo. Founder of the Mirai Institute and Midori.so.

Mitch Kitamura

Managing Director at Draper Nexus

Ikuo C. Hiraishi

Startup Accelerator. President & CEO of SunBridge Global Ventures Inc. Co-founder of Interscope Inc.(sold to @yahoo JAPAN), also WebCrew Inc.(listed TSE).

Christopher Wendel

Partner and CFO

Tadaaki Kimura (Tad)

CEO of addlight Inc. / Director of some Japanese start-ups / Angel Investor

Jun Nakajima

Founder & CEO at Archtype(Incubator). Former COO at Inspire Corp. Worked on Dentsu.(Internet business specialist) Mentor of NTT com Open Lab,

Mike Kofi Okyere

Work @issuu Worked @google, @admob, @criteo • Studied at @iu @cal • Investor

Michael Madison

Founded Cocoon Ventures & World TaSCforce. Crossborder VC. Worked at @apple, @tellme-networks. Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-california-berkeley, @university-of-maryland-baltimore-county

John Stokes

Co-Founder of early stage VC, @real-ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.

Linda Dannenberg

Investor in @groupon, @playhaven, Pulse (alphonso Labs), @yume, @angieslist, @kaufda-de, @myfab-com, @experteer, Friendbuy, @xango, @9flats, @sapato, @fastlane, @teamo...

Jonathan Levine

Management Sensei ◦ Infrastructure Samurai ◦ Analytics Otaku ◦ Architecture Ninja. 1st programming job at 14. Effective in teams of 4 to 10,000.

Philippe Guelton

Angel Investor, Advisor, C-level Executive with 20 years of Media experience in print and digital platforms. Currently CEO at SheKnows.com

Solomon Freeman Looi

Serial Entrepreneur. Within 10 years has ventured into Telco, ICT, MLM, FOREX, Hedge Fund, Events, Media Production & Business Consulting for Fortune 500.

FUMIHIKO ISHIMARU

Worked at @open-network-lab, @dg-incubation, Managing director

Shotaro Tanaka

Former tech/media banker at GS,MS in Tokyo, a VC in Hong Kong turned seed,early stage investor based in NYC.

Ben Lam

Based in Japan

James Riney

VC @ DeNA, Founding CEO @ STORYS.JP, Former J.P. Morgan

Paul Ford

VP Product & Marketing @sendgrid Entrepreneur, Technologist, Strategist, Startup Advisor, VC Whisperer, Connector of Dots, Marketer & Creator of Cool Stuff

Robert Laing

CEO and co-Founder of Gengo
http://robertlaing.com

Hitoshi Kawanabe

Specialized in technologies. Investment and incubation, product management, and engineering.

Daisuke Horie

Founder @fullcourt • Worked at @amazon, @yahoo-japan, @peatix, @six-apart • @500startups Mentor
http://angrymoose.org

Dominiek ter Heide

CTO & Co-founder of @bottlenose. Created web products, companies and development teams in Japan, Europe and US. Comp sci background. #machinelearning #bigdata
http://synaptify.com/

Gen Miyazawa

Founder @cirius-technology, @cirius-technologies-usa COO/CFO of the Marketing Solution Company at Yahoo! JAPAN.

Akinori Shibuya

Invest on behalf of Recruit to @translink-capital, DCM, and 500 Startups.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/shby/

Yoshinari Yoshikawa

Founder of @digital-magic-labs(DML), @ip-infusion (an ACCESS Company) and Miselu.

Eric Nakagawa

Co-founder of @simplehoney, shopping simplified. Founder of @icanhascheezburger. Millions of lols.
http://ericnakagawa.com

David Smith

Investment Principal at @dg-incubation, ex- @gree-inc In Tokyo 6 years, on my way back to CA. Excited to help companies looking to change the world!

Salil Pradhan

Venture Partner, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners

Michael Hoydich

Firestarter @ Think Gaming // Previous: co-founder, @squrl, @industrynext

Tom Callaghan

Co-founded M3 (TSE:2413). Created world's most successful pharma-to-physician online marketing channel. Transformed $2M startup capital into $1B market cap.

Shinji Asada

Director, ITOCHU Technology Ventures.
http://www.asada23.com/

Shinya Okumura

Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

Managing Partner at Strive Capital (fka Kii Capital)
http://ngpedro.tumblr.com

Kyoko Uchida

Biz Dev and CVC (KDDI Open Innovation Fund) at @kddi, the biggest Japanese teleco; Worked at Crosslink Capital: Studied at @keio-university and @bates-college

Jin Koh

Founder Original Stitch, @startforce • Worked at @splashtop • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley

Daisuke Osada

Just An Indelible Adopter. ex-Investors of a few early birds. #Angel #i18n #gihyodp #barlog //All activities on the Internet is the responsibility of mine.//

Ryo Chikazawa

Former DeNA full-stack engineer specialized in front-end for successful social games and credited for a popular HTML5 OSS. Co-Founded 2 companies in Tokyo.
http://chikathreesix.com/

Shotaro Asano

Vice President at Recruit Strategic Partners

Tokiharu Noto

Hacker • Founder @wazanova • Worked at @dena, @ntt

Kyohei Teshima

Serial Entrepreneur, Growth Hacker & Rock'n Roll Guitarist
http://www.strikingly.com/3-0inc

Josef Dunne

Co-Founder/CEO of @babelverse. TEDx Organiser. Community Builder. Jungle Survivor. Frequent Traveller & Glomad.
http://babelverse.com/blog

Sunny Tsang

Co-founder of @anyperk. co-founded @goood-company, which was acquired. co-founded AppDorks. Designer.

Ryan McGrath

Self-taught developer, designer, and author; consulted with companies across the world, always looking for new and interesting technology.
http://venodesigns.net/

Mike Uesugi

Co-Founder & CTO: @social-rewards, Inc., Screen Rewards Founder & CEO: Global Micro Solutions, Inc. Founder & Chairman: GMS Japan, Inc.

Yuya Takegawa

Venture Capitalist at CyberAgent Ventures, Inc.
http://www.venturising.com/

Sandeep Casi

Virtual Reality @general-motors , Led System Group @industrial-light-magic, Research Scientist @Fuji Xerox PAL, DCinema @fujifilm, Founder @cinemacraft

Masataka Matsumoto

CIO at @yahoo Japan. Advisory at Softbank mobile. Founder & President at P.I.M. (Acquired by YahooJP in 2000)

Emi Takemura

Co-founder and Asia Lead of @peatix. Marketing and business development are primary strengths. 15+ yr in B2C and B2B internet space in Japan.

Bryan Lee

Cofounder @intraix. Graduated @national-university-of-singapore. Self taught @ios-developer. Worked at @yahoo
http://bosslee.co/

Takao Ozawa

Angel,entrepreneur in Japan.Founded @bizseek(acquired by @rakuten for 20M$),@crocos,@nanapi,@starfestival. Invested in over 10 companies.

Nicholas Wang

Co-founder at @100village Driven to solve big social problems. Co-founded @makible, product managed LEGO.@cuusoo-com. Ex @yahoo, @microsoft.
http://cloneofsnake.posterous.com

Kiyo Kobayashi

Founder and CEO @remotus @nobot

Soon Hin Khor

Ph.D (Univ. of Tokyo), M. Sc (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), B.Eng (Nat. Univ. of Singapore). Worked at IBM Singapore, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, NICT Japan, Gengo.com.

Nobuhiro Seki

CEO of @six-apart. Founder and investor of @connectfree-k-k, @ikumore. Investor of @say-media. Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @university-of-tokyo

Tomoyuki Kamada

Experienced Program/Project Manager of WW Professional Service with global team members/partners/customers. Worked at Rovi, Adobe/Macromedia, @openwave, @ntt.

Paul Papadimitriou

Innovation strategy. Advisor to startups and programs in emerging markets.
http://papadimitriou.co

Jack O'Holleran

Co-Founder, VP of Sales and BD at Aktana. Sales/Biz Dev/Product Mngt specialist. Big data, analytics, and mobile expertise. Former D-1 College Football Player.

Masayuki Sarukawa

Principal at DGIncubation. I do early stage investment on behalf of Digital Garage.

nagata0321

Co-founder at Denno-tai (Mobile Search Engine, Acquired by YahooJP) Senior Planner at Dentsu. Founder & CEO at Distant Drums inc.

Benjamin Trotter

CEO Founder of @storefront-social. Creator of SushiGuru, @storefront-social, @spekkle and many more. Global Marketing, International experience, fluent Japanese.
http://globetrotter.us

Hirokazu Nagano

President of KLab Ventures
http://koukokuno.tumblr.com/

Takuro Wakabayashi

Investor @cinemacraft, @technostar • Studied at @insead-1

Akio Tanaka

Mayel de Borniol

@babelverse Co-Founder. Glomad. Ideator. Hacker. Maker. Winner @ LeWeb, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt. Alumni @500startups, @startupchile, @startupweekend
http://blog.deborniol.com/

Mikio Tsukamoto

I.T. Bureau Chief at Fuji Television (Japanese Biggest TV station)

Maja Komel

junior developer

Kensuke (Ken) Murashima

An angel investor with a business development and investment banking background in the US and Japan.

Alejandro Wainzinger

UCSC Comp Sci B.S., web (backend mostly, Ruby, Python, PHP), desktop development (Qt/C++). Loves music, natural languages, traveling. Working in Tokyo.

Masahiko Honma

Founder and general partner of @incubate-fund. Managing 50MM USD fund and actively investing into seed stage startups of mobile, media, gaming in Asia pacific.
http://www.corepeople.jp

Mark McFarlane

Founder @vinetrade • Worked at @marono-media-k-k, @peatix • Studied at @university-of-sussex, @university-of-brighton
http://www.tacchistudios.com

Heather Russell

Rinkya MFCEO, entrepreneur, resident nerd, techie, otaku, pimp, Ironman Born & raised in Brooklyn, lived in Tokyo for 11 years, just moved to London.

Yu Shinohara

Co-Founder and CEO @amazinglife, Japan Country manager @dropmysite, Previous Founder and CEO @everconnect.
http://shinoha.la

Gen Isayama

Early stage venture capital. Focus in consumer media, mobile and EC. Expert in US-Japan cross border biz dev and investments.

Dr. Serkan Toto

Tokyo-based consultant focused on Japan's web, mobile and social gaming industries, Japan contributor for TechCrunch
http://www.serkantoto.com

Oscar Noriega

Co-founder & CEO of @unda. Serial entrepreneur, hustler. Founded my first company at age 17. Technologist and web pioneer in Latin America.
http://neotokyo.vg

Satoshi Suzuki

Co-Founder and CEO of @wondershake, Evangelist, Hustler and a Dreamer.

Satoshi Sugie

Co-Founder & CEO @whill , @smile-park, @500startups • Worked at @nissan-motors • Studied at @ritsumeikan-asia-pacific-university, @nanjing University（China）

Clancey Stahr

Principal at ZenShin Capital, MS&E at @stanford-university 2015, @stanford-university BASES

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

Secretary-General of the French National Digital Council, essayist and journalist, former CLO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Lawyer, Business Angel, Entrepreneur

Yeh Eduardo

Co-founder/CEO at @selvz. Co-Founder/CEO @iPing/MrWakeup (acquired by eCal); Investor/Advisor @Conatus Energia (Brazil)
http://mrwakeup.tumblr.com/

Rob Pereyda

Otaku, gamer, media executive, business developer, ex-chemist, producer-director, Japanese speaker, world traveler, recipe-maker, hot dog.

Yusuke Takahashi

Working on @appsocially. Cycle Road Racer. Writer @GrowthHackerjp @jpTechCrunch @StartupDating @Shimizukobundo
http://growthhacker.jp

Lee Smith

Co-Founder & CTO of: Exco Financial Services, including Paidy.com, Aqush.com and MyCredit.jp. Wavecell, Global SMS aggregator. Nozara, research & investment.

Franky Chung

CTO of @language-cloud

Nao Tokui

Co-Founder and CTO of @unda. Studied at Tokyo University. Devoted surfer and PhD of Engineering.
http://www.sonasphere.com/

Herman Schaaf

Full Stack Generalist, developer at Gengo
http://herman.asia

Ricardo Porto

Investor @30k • Investor @airhelp • Investor @trekbooking.com •Studied at @rutgers-university-newark, @iscte-lisboa

Paul Oswald

First visited Japan in 2005. Founded MakeLeaps in 2010 to focus my 12+ years of software experience in startups and enterprise on the Japanese SME space.

Marina Khonina

A seasoned linguist passionate about data
http://www.proz.com/profile/13290

Chao Zhang

Co-Founder | President | CTO of ubi interactive inc. / @ubi-interactive / Human Computer Interaction, ex-Vodafone, ex-Siemens, ex-Philips, CDTM, TUM Alumnus
http://chaozhang.com

Keizo Tsutsui

Angel and Int'l BizDev at NEXT. Joined Rakuten in 1999 when sales was $6 million, grew it to $1.2 billion in 2005. Then joined a VC, helped 2 startups thru IPO.

Tushar Khandelwal

Helping travelers discover unique experiences @voyagin. Indian tech geek / entrepreneur from Japan, @columbia-university Eng grad, previously @producteev, @social-bicycles
http://www.tushark.com

Batara Eto

Co-founder mixi • Co-founder @east-ventures

Aaron Rutledge

Founder @little-arrows & @valet-1, previously founder @poke-new-york and @winedirect.
http://aaronrutledge.com/#/blog

Sascha Konietzke

Mobile, web & cloud enthusiast. Webmaster at VC-funded startup with 15. Former IT Consulting + Web Ops at HP. Previous mobile startup experience. iOS developer.
http://funkfeuer.net

Shu Uesugi

Hacker @edsurge
http://medium.com/@chibicode

Jason Winder

Business Co-Founder of MakeLeaps, a B2B SaaS Invoicing platform. 13 years in Japan, 10+ years running a business here. Fluent in Japanese.

Kenneth Auchenberg

Interface Developer with a passion for user experience

Takayuki Miyauchi

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer and Engineer of @sassor. He has been working on Interaction designer.

Hiroki Mita

Invested DENNOO, MONOCO
http://ameblo.jp/mta045

Kentaro Sakakibara

Investor in @nobot, @share0, @bukupe, @anydoor, @social-recruting, @fanbook, @whyteboard, @i-c-cruise, @nagisa, @rei-frontier, @miew, @trippieace, @bluenote, @frybridge...

Alexander Wilhelm

Manager - Client Engineering @cinemacraft, Partner and CTO at BluSoft Inc., Strong background in UI/UX & Backend design and implementation. Never sleeps.

Federico Bucchi

My studies and strong interest in information and communications technology, computer science, social networking and the web have become my career.
http://www.bucchi.me

Akira Kitamura

Representative of Japan venture research Partner of Sun Bridge Global Ventures Angel activity salesforce.comJapan founding president Sun Bridge founders

Yuhki Kusuda

Investor, KLab Ventures.

Eiji Araki

#4 employee and Board member of GREE, founder and SVP of its US branch, GREE International. Product leader having Engineering background.

Casey Grooms

Co-Founder @pocketmath, • Studied Economics/Math at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Nobby Yoshida

Former entrepreneur and capitalist himself, currently advises enterprises and mentors startups worldwide. Also teaches at SBI Graduate School of Business.
http://nobuya-yoshida.sblo.jp/

Dmytro Yashkir

Currently Nodejs, Rails, iOS. Love coding, making things, running and rockclimbing
http://dyashkir.com

Aileen Gemma Smith

CEO Vizalytics Technology • Content janitor. Worked at @razorfish, @FinancialTimes @newsweek • Studied at @city-university-of-new-york, Former IBCLC with private practice.
http://cuppagemma.com/

Heather R Morgan

Economist, Writer & Globetrotter. Cold emails are my superpower. @500startups
http://hongkongandbeyond.com

Shintaro Yamada

Founded Unoh Inc. (sold to Zynga), then founded Mercari, Inc.

Mikaal Abdulla

I am the co founder & CEO of 8 Securities. My journey has taken me through Silicon Valley, New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and now Tokyo.
http://www.siliconyuan.com

tom uemura

Branding consultant as well as investment advisor (US-based strategic micro fund and others). Also entrepreneur of two startups as well.

Akiko Naka

Founder @wantedly • Worked at @facebook, @goldman-sachs • Studied at @kyoto-university

I-Freek

Established in 2000. A listed company. Focus on providing mobile contents to consumer, apps, email decoration, e-commerce. Offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Singapore.

Kristopher Tate

Hi there, I'm kristopher. I create experiences wherever I go and right now, I'm in Kyoto. CEO at connectFree k.k., founder of @zooomr -- remember to say hello!

Federico Bucchi

Front End Engineer, UXD
http://www.bucchi.me

Gerhard Fasol

Cambridge Univ/Cavendish Laboratory PhD in Physics. Entrepreneur/Founder in Tokyo/Japan worked with 100s of high-tech companies on business development and strategy in Japan
http://www.eurotechnology.com/

Masashi Kobayashi

Stephanie Ardrey

Founder @iVentLABS Business Accelerator, @ArdreyGroup LLC • Partner at @K5 Launch Alliance @maverick Angels

Vikram Upadhyaya

Serial Entrepreneur,Changemaker, Go-to-market strategist.

Takamitsu Mizutori

Working on @unda as Android developer. Have made more than 30 apps for iOS and Android devices. Founder of @goldrush-computing (Tokyo based app dev company)

Hadrien Raffalli

Founder @cottontracks • Worked at @demand-media • Studied at @hec-paris, @telecom-paristech

Hiroshige Umino

CEO of Increments, the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch. Worked at @google, @hatena.
http://yaotti.hatenablog.com

Joe Chan

Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.

Craig Carapelho

Founder and CEO of @3d-travel, a travel-tech startup that raised $3.5MM. Founder and CEO of @team-vision, a successful interactive agency for over 15 years.
http://3dhawaii.com/blog

Dominik Steiner

CEO @marono-media-k-k

Ian Wilson

Japan Market Entry Manager and Senior AI Developer at Skimlinks (User Intent and Text understanding), Founder of @expressi (emotional relevance), @emotion-ai. Co Founded @zukool (machine learning / recommendation). BSc Artificial Intelligence.
http://expressi.mewww.emotionai.comwww.attentionai.comwww.neon.aiwww.zukool.com

Joel Dietz

Codes. Dreams. @Penn @Brown @salesforce MVP. Founder @swarm
http://www.fractastical.com

Bora Savas

Investment partner at Netprice.com, serial entrepreneur. EIR at Beenos.com My previous startup (cloudshop.jp) is acquired by Aucfan.com which is Japan's largest product-price data analysis company.
http://beenos.com

Adam Smith

C#.NET, MSSQL Web & Desktop Developer / Consultant

Gaku Hagiwara

Founder @wantedly • Worked at @goldman-sachs • Studied at @kyoto-university

Tetsuya "Terry" Hayashiguchi

Seed incubator. Achieves 80% of portfolios' next round funding. Helps concept making, strategy development and execution, alliance & funding. Ex-BCG consultant.
http://www.rising-asia.com

Shinji Morishita

Jeffrey Char

Serial entrepreneur. CEO at J-Seed Ventures and Chief Mentor at @venture-generation, a Tokyo-based venture community.

Yoshihiko Kinoshita

I invest in 5-10 startups @ $30K a year.
http://ougonnokane.com

Takeshi Hirano

Co-Founder for bootupAsia Inc. and @startupdating. Writer of TechCrunch Japan

Eswar Mani

Investor&Fundraiser @masdar, Banker @credit-suisse-first-boston-csfb & Techie @merrill-lynch; MIT Sloan MBA '08, Undergrad LSE '01; born, raised & from Tokyo

Yokoi Takanori

COO of Increments,the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch.Open Network Lab is one of the most famous incubation in japan.Worked at Rakuten.

Dmitri Tcherbadji

Artist, Founder @artsocket @eureka-1 @hechnr-business-engines-inc-1
http://knowledgeandanticipation.tumblr.com

Yusuke Murata

General partner & Co-founder of @incubate-fund, social and mobile apps- focused venture fund in Japan.

Ryuichi Nishida

Former TechCrunch Japan editor.

Eddie Palmer

Creator of Dynamic Paper. Energy efficient display technology for e-readers identical to paper. Background in product development of unique display tech.

Sergio Arcos Sebastián

Researcher, Security Auditor, Developer, Software Architect, Enterpreteneur, ...

Shelley Lau - シェリーロウ

Investor: @pinterest, @500startups , @ahalife, @viber ; Founder:; Advisor: @adaptics; Investment/biz role at R Group, @credit-suisse, @ibm; MBA/MS at MIT

Tomoya Konishi

co-founder of Increments.

Vili Lehdonvirta

Leading scholar and consultant on virtual economies and digital labor. Splitting my time between London School of Economics and a startup. Ex-game developer

Tak Tsuchiya

Co-founder of Remotus and currently in charge of business development.

Dave Jenkins

VP Marketing @endpoint.com, Fluent Japanese, founder @mediabang-com • Worked @backcountry-com, @red-hat @shoes.com
http://www.davejenkins.com

Yukihiro Ikemi

Founder @garbs, @grooves
http://www.social-recruiting.jp/

Hilo Iketani

CEO at E-Fi Entreprenuer. Independent Marketing Consultant and CMO for start-ups. Strong Business Background. Looking for a job.

Sam Cohan

Berkeley MFE, Waterloo Comp Eng, International Experience Designing and Developing World Class Software Systems, Working with Large Data Sets

Russel Cheng

Co-founder @readerie; Co-founder XM Asia, acq by WPP Group; Founded Organic Asia, IPO in 2000; Worked at @microsoft, Beacon Communications/Leo Burnett Japan.
http://startuphui.com

Mika Takagi

Stanford MBA, has extensive network of creators, designers and people in the media industry in Japan

Michael Song

Founder @YSK MEIDA • Worked at @samsung corporation,Investor in @nimbuzz, @ucanfunding, @onoffmix,@lawncompany,@heybread,@xlush

Andrew Smith Lewis

Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Cerego LLC

Alex Polyakov

Founder of @locomizer, a B2B geo-behavioral targeting engine to help companies monetize on targeted recommendations and advertising.
http://www.locomizer.com/blog/

Akihiko Yamada

Founder @j-grab-inc • Worked at @ebay, @yahoo-japan
http://www.facebook.com/jgraben

Brandon Woo

Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.

Kengo Ito

Taehwan Kim

Head of Worldwide Corporate and Business Development at @nexon

Michael Reinsch

Co-Founder of Doorkeeper. Enthusiastic Web Developer (10+ years) and Entrepreneur. Startup Weekend Facilitator.

Takeshi Ebihara

Venture Capitalist in Asia

Ted Yamamoto

General partner at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital

Ludovic Copéré

Enabling Innovation @sony, Fueling Growth among new Ventures and emerging Intellectual Property

Keisuke Wada

General Partner & Co-Founder of IncubateFund. Focus on Asia/Japan/Mobile. Woked at CyberAgent,Inc

Jay Zimmermann

Was in on the ground floor @the-orchard, @digital-rights-agency, @electronic-arts, @digital-music-group-inc, @red-melon-records • Cognitive Science at @university-of-california-san-diego

Yoshiki C. Yasui

Founder & CEO @origami-4

Nicolas Loeillot

CEO of LM3LABS • Technology management roles @accenture, @nortel-networks @gartner • Engineering + MBA education.

Akky Akimoto

Founder of @asiajin.com, English blog media on Japanese web/IT.
http://asiajin.com/blog/

Masa Nakatsu

Co-Founder, CEO of CoinPass. Ex Director, Regional Head of APAC, Global RTB Team, at Criteo, BD Manager at Groupon, also Co-Founder of Musavy

Reo Kasai

Associate @ Incubate Fund

James Hollow

CEO at Profero Tokyo, Founder Growth Hacking Japan, 500 Startups Mentor. Japan-focused brand strategist & growth hacker, bilingual, WPP Fellow, OxfordUni MPhys
http://jameshollow.com

David Liebreich

Founded @imobile-inc, @ehealthcare-inc. Owner @imobile, President @ehealthcare, Brand Manager @procter-gamble

Maurio Leon Guerrero

Product Design. UI. Director of Product Design @zendesk
https://www.vizify.com/maurio

Maiko Kojima

Design and programming expert of apps. Launched 2 iPhone/ 2 Android apps, master of Asian market.

Kohei Ishida

CEO of Tokyo based startup @campfire.

Sean Bonner

Misanthropologist

Hiroaki Taira

CEO of GOOPA Inc. Lived in Silicon Valley for 8.5 years. Animation major at Tokyo Polytechnic University. Worked at amana inc. as newly graduate.

Ash Eldritch

Software engineer with 14 years’ experience as a technology leader, architect and entrepreneur in enterprise & high-volume web. Building a Google Glass startup.
http://www.superhumanlabs.com/blog

Nao Iizuka

A jack-of-all-trades developer who code both front-end and back-end with 10 years of experience.

Thierry BEZIER-MEMBREY

Founder @everyone @recipay-com-1
https://medium.com/@thierrybezier

David Cowgill

Founded AppThemes. Seasoned entrepreneur with strong expertise in Online Marketing and Web Development. Early employee at Salesforce.com.

Elaine Huang Crawford

CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard

Shota Morozumi

Work at @samurai-incubate-1 which is a seed-Investor. Director/Event Organizer/
http://www.entrepreneursmind.net/

Vincent Sider

Founder @nipponterest, @aviationfanclub • Worked at @bbc-worldwide, @bt-group • Studied at @ecole-des-mines-de-paris

Denny Britz

Builds stuff. CS @berkeley and @stanford-university. Likes Machine Learning, Big Data, UX Design, Lean Startups. Lived in US, Germany, Japan, Thailand.
http://dennybritz.com

Calvin Chun-yu Chan

Designer, UI Engineer, UX Advocate, Digital Illustrator, Sketchnoter.
http://www.calvin-c.com

Atsushi Nagase

Owner, Software engineer of @LittleApps Inc.
http://ngsdev.org/

Silver Hage

Serial entrepreneur. Co-Founder at @basaar & @siison. Studied marketing and finance at the University of Tartu and Waseda University in Tokyo.
http://silverhage.com

Martin Konrad

Founder at @design Royale (acquired dec'12). Founder at @drumo

Ricardo Sousa

Founder Vitanect • Worked at @medtronic, @eli-lilly, @arthur-andersen • Studied at @insead-1, @universidade-nova-de-lisboa

Atsu Wada

Founder @j-grab-inc • Worked at @ebay, @ctc-enterprises • Studied at American University from Pennsylvania and Master degree in Japan Social Science.
http://www.facebook.com/jgraben

Toby Hoenisch

StudyPact Founder. MSc in Big Data. Deep passion for behavioral design. Entrepreneur & full-stack dev since age 10. I get things done.
http://www.hoenisch.at

Natalie Shiori Fleming

Born in Vancouver, Canada but Tokyo is home now. Fintech & Japan market expert, over 8 years experience building new businesses and services in finance & EC

Asia Fondue

Planner at @digital-garage, Tokyo. Project Management related to incubation of mobile and web applications in the Japanese market. PR, marketing expertize.

Evan Grossman

Worked at @canon, @samurai-international • Studied at @university-of-california-irvine

Marcus Tonndorf

Swedish Entrepreneur and currently founder of Primal Shield. 5 Countries, 5 companies, 5 Languages and 5 areas of expertise.

Fon Tran

Founder @yoketown, Sence • Worked at @goldman-sachs, @morgan-stanley • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-waterloo
https://medium.com/@fon_tran

Yusuke Kawasaki

Chief Architect at Recruit Co., Ltd
http://kawanet.blogspot.com/

Barbara Lippe

Founder. Art Director. Launched mobile app Area Now. Game industry conference planner. Worked @ startups in Tokyo & Vienna. Speaker @ MIT, GDC, Gamescom. PhD.

Yuki Nishijima

Ruby on Rails contributor, Kaminari maintainer(watched by +2600 on Github). experience in programming for +10 years.
http://yukinishijima.net

Qn. Everlena Brown

Media Mogul behind #QEBLLC @QEBVLogTV #PublishingQEB #QEBStudios & #QEBFoundation. NEWS TIPS #4045329232

Jordan Adams

Creative, independent professional with experience working abroad in hospitality, travel and trip planning and online editorial content management.
http://glimpsesfromthestreet.com/

Russ Ferguson

Interactive Developer Web/Device Developing Second Screen experiences

Yosuke Ishizaki

Worked at @hatena • Studied at @hosei-university
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yosuke/

Tomoaki Sato

Founder islamap Studying Waseda University I'm now in MOVIDA School by Taizo Son. Graduated Kaisei High&Middle Hish School.

Cl. Alex. Chien

Inventor, "Med-Surg Onshoring" (pat. pend.). Project leader $50MM ILEC COs. Leading Wall St. analyst Cable-Modem 1.0. MBA, UNC-Chapel Hill. U-Mich. award.

Esteban Miyashiro

Startups and large corporations work experience in management positions. MBA holder. Technical background & business experience. Trilingual (Japanese, English and Spanish)

Pietro Zuco

Mobile Developer, Photographer, Blogger.
http://zuco.org

Kyle DuPont

CFO/BizDev @matrixvision • Studied at @georgia-institute-of-technology • Worked at MUFJ @morgan-stanley in Tokyo.

Hiro Fukami

ex-Co-founder of @fluxflex. Network/Infra Engineer, @amazon EC2/AutoScaling, iPhone Apps Dev, Internet Backbone Operation(BGP). Worked at NTT, IRI, transcosmos
http://hirofukami.tumblr.com

Ryan Roth

Founded Roth Management, Founding board member of the Catalina Film Festival.
http://www.ryan-roth.com

Sam Thomas

Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships @ HPC.

Derek Underwood

Carnegie Mellon Engineering undergrad and MBA. Business management generalist with a bent toward strategy and development.

Christopher Organ

USC Business Administration-Cinematic Arts Graduate

Justin Clune

MS from Todai, BS from Berkeley. Studied IT management and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Pirate be me native tongue.

Lucas Doyle

Tatsuhei Asanuma

Executive Officer at GREE,Inc. Worked at @linkshare, @Livedoor.com • Studied at @sophia University

Ryutaro Yokoyama

Founder of Etsuri

Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko

EPITECH CS, full-stack web nerd with a focus on front-end development and UI/UX design. Co-founded LocalRepublic.
http://roadtocairns.com/

Chikara Shimizu

VC at @nvcc • Investor @flutterscape, @spline-network

Jordan Scott

Founder and CEO of @godigex. Strong international business background (operations at ConAgra Foods, marketing at Brambles). MBA @georgia-institute-of-technology 2009 - Batts Fellow.

Jon Keating

CTO at @frafty

Neil Rubens

Assistant Professor (Machine Learning) @university-of-electro-communications Tokyo, Japan

Hide Furutani

Technology-oriented business development expert specializing in Mobile, Internet and ICT with international experience and local expertise in Japan and Asia

Pierre Gaulis

Entrepreneur based in Tokyo and CEO at Cream - Mobile Marketing Lab.

Hirokazu Morita

CEO of Origoh (Current). Rocket Engineer in JAXA, Public Officer in Japan, Statistian, Chicago Booth MBA 2013 (Sponsored by Government) and Art lover.

Takara Bullock

Founder of @hitch-d. Mother of two. Web Designer and Fulbright Fellow. Former Tech Recruiter in Tokyo.

Katayama

An ex-director of mixi Inc. that is one of popular Japanese socia network service.

Takuya Itamoto

Founder & CEO of Startouts Inc

Chad Iverson

Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group

Takuro Kasahara

Former Principal of Japanese VC firm. Strong and unique background in venture financing and software engineering.

Nino Popa

Software Developer, Engineer, Founder. Worked at @business-objects. Worked in Japan, Canada, Romania, India.

Bernadette Castillo

Yushi Ohmori

Venture Investment Associate @BEENOS Beenos (Tokyo) | Beenos Partners (US) | Beenos Asia (Singapore) http://beenos.com/en

Toshihiko Kamei

Richard Lam

Studied @monash-university University. Electrical engineering background. Focused on process-oriented innovations.

Bart Riepe

Webdeveloper, Nerd and Idealist
http://www.serial-experiments.com

Keech Nakamura

Founder Soundforge.Inc • Worked at @baycurrent-consulting • Studied at @waseda University

Tai Watanabe

CEO of MediaProbe Inc.

Yefeng Liu

Founder @diggerlab • Worked at @microsoft-research, @tokyo-institute-of-technology-1 • Studied at @waseda, @chalmers-institute-of-technology

David Luhman

Undergrads and MBA from Colorado Univ. IRS Enrolled Agent. Experience in Japan and Silicon Valley. Now working with US-AU-CN-JP-EU (especially "mundane") SMBs.

Ruri Eguchi

Julien Cayzac

(complete later)
http://blog.julien.cayzac.name/

Koichiro Sumi

I gave a lot of iPhone apps. I was ranked in the category of App Store rankings of America. I made ​​a reward media in CyberAgent. It was a great success.
http://blog.sumyapp.com/

Ski Muir Milburn

Serial cleantech entrepreneur with successful startup, IPO, secondary, turn-around and MBO experience. Currently CEO of VAIREX air systems.

Yusuke Ohsaki

Founder @bulqy • Worked at @deloitte-consulting, @sap

Charles Ovink

Lead on @pelikan-projects, United Nations international project management system

David R

Creative problem solver. Founded, ran and sold online travel startup. Strong online background from @expedia and @mckinsey-company

Cindy Lin

Co-Founder/COO/General Counsel of Global EduGate • Worked as IP lawyer at @the-coca-cola-company • Studied at @georgetown-university, @university-of-maryland-college-park
http://careeradviceforasians.wordpress.com

Hajime Nagatomo

Worked at @recruit

Dan Boswell

5 years realtime trading systems in C++, 3 years development platforms and algorithmic trading in Python. Excellent communicator, enthusiastic learner.

Scott Payne

TBD

Brittney Herron

Teach for America Alumni, Princeton '11, UC Denver '13

Keiji Ono

CEO of @net8. I met the internet in 1995 at the first. In that time i worked for JustNet that was ISP of Justsytem corp. Then found own company in 1999.

Hideyuki Shoda

Co-Founder and CEO of 10SEC

TT Chu

Worked at @morgan-stanley @pwc @credit-suisse @bnp-paribas • Studied at @london-school-of-economics • Member of MENSA • Speaks four different languages

Paul Contreras

see my profile in linkedin

Oreste Signori

Experienced Early Stage Ventures Manager and Consultant

Giles Duke

John Zhuang

Corporate Lawyer, Government Relations Consultant, and Business Development Specialist with deep working knowledge of the tech sectors in US, Europe, and Asia.

Tyler Breton

Founder & CEO @makemoji, Co-Founder @quickfra-me, Investor RealVu, Founder Saving Power (RIP); @bentley-university University BS 2009
https://www.facebook.com/tylercolebreton

Kei Nishiyama

Co-founder & Chairman of Ticketstreet, online marketplace of Sports/Concert/Thertre tickets in Japan. Serial entrepreneur, Angel investor.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/taro_akebono/

Ryo Kawamura

Software engineer who has speciality in machine learning.

Jimi Jackson

http://blog.jimijackson.com

Takafumi Shibasaki

Co-founder of @10sec.

Kelvin Tay

NUS School of Computing, Interface Redesign @ TripAdvisor, Best Project (E-Business Capstone), human language maestro, failed first startup @ 20
http://db.tt/HTl8G7gK

Isao Matsushima

Founder @fishbonn, FishBonn • Worked at @j-drive-communications • Studied at @boston-university

Erick Mazer Yamashita

Akihito Morita

Consultant of iOS and Android App Tracking. Knowledge of Japanese mobile market and culture.

Mayu Shimizu

Daisuke Fujimura

Mid to expert level Rails programmer.

Yoshi Iketani

Owner & CIO of @skyavy, INC.
http://iketani.skyavy.com

George Cheng

Worked at @goldman-sachs • Studied at University of Pennsylvania

Steven Yuen

Economics student at Emory University; Prior experiences in real estate, and accounting in a non-profit company.

Ryo Suzuki

Founder and developer of Cumiki. Ph.D student at University of Tokyo department of Economics. I'm a developer of Node, Rails, and iOS.
http://ryooopan.tumblr.com

Tomohiro Nakamura

Banker

Shimizu Takumi

Founder Combinator. Strong business background(Sansan).

Shibuya Town

Invested in number of internet startups

Masahiro Saito

Developer of Increments, ex-Kamado CTO(acquired by mixi)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/camelmasa/

Bart T. Sitek

Founder @securo, @instatrip

Yoki Okawa

Statistician/Data mining specialist with Ph.D. in econometrics and computational macroeconomics. Also, full stack Rails developer.

Ulas Bardak

Founder @coffeebreak • Worked at @stumbleupon, @microsoft • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university

Dave Seyb

Founder NZBCX • Worked at @hsbc, @nomura • Studied at @victoria-university-of-wellington, @deakin-university

Satoshi Taniguchi

Founder Mystar-Japan Business Solutions • Studied at @keio-university
http://satoshitaniguchi.com

Rishabh Mahajan

Worked at @rakuten, @metaps • Studied at @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
http://blog.rishabhmhjn.me

Ranjit Patel

I am an extremely energetic person who wants more and more out of life. I love my work, my family & my friends and also like meeting new people.

Michio Montgomery

Representative Director & CEO of White Knight Capital and Global Educational Partners

安田一斗 (Kazuto Yasuda)

神奈川生まれ・US育ち/一橋大学経済学部/音楽雑食家/ギター弾き/SydneyMarathon2010完走(4h34m)/road bike(Anchor RNC3)で九州1周1,000kmの旅/Shoot Boxing

Allen Wang

Founder Skimtoon and LVC Investment, Specialize in Financial analysis and operations Studied at @university-of-waterloo

Nobuyuki Tanaka

Yuichi Kori

Founder of Otsumu Inc.

Kana Nakako

Sport marketing planner at ad agency. Strong relationship with Japanese Olympic Committee, and other national federations.

Sorato Ijichi

Founder of @olio.me. Founder @skyavy, Inc (US). Founder @skyavy Group, co.ltd (Japan). Founder @jmarket-com (sold).
http://sorato.me

Ryota Sekine

Co-founder at FitnessCubed. UChicago alum. ChicagoBooth MBA admit. Health, Energy, Art.

Pedro FARFAN

Chicago Booth MBA, Monterrey Tech Computer Engineer, work experience in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Yutaka Ichibangase

CTO of Postmore. Lifelong programmer. Dev experience from teamLab inc. (4 years). Studied at Kyushu Institute of Technology(2007).

Oleg Zuravljov

Will Glozer

14 years of programming experience in many languages, on many platforms, from mobile apps to scalable backend systems. Significant infrastructure & sysops exp.

Yannick Gouez

Founder @unltd-fm • @startupbus Europe '13 • Worked at @ez-systems • Studied at @efrei

Hiroya Chiba

Expert software engineer who is also good at designing high-end yet simple clean easy-to-use software. Worked in Silicon Valley and Japan.

Shotaro Tsuda

E.I.R @ beenos.

Kash Faheem

Los Angeles / Tokyo • Startup and Big Data Enthusiast • Quant Analyst & Engineer @raytheon • Previously @nasa-jpl • BS, MBA, MSBA

Thomas Tachibana

Wesleyan Bioinformatics, PM@Gilt Groupe Japan, Analtytically Driven PM
https://m.giltcity.jp

Brian de Heus

Founder @tabego • Worked at @gree-international-inc, @wizcorp

Kei Oka

Internship at startup in Japan. I do HTML, CSS, jQuery, and PHP. I am major in international business. Looking for a job in San francisco.

Ryuji Matsumura

Working on @appsocially. Love Arc.
http://mgiken.com/blog

Momoko Nakamura

Co-Founder of @porter-sail. Ideated and executed global digital strategies for brands like Food Network and Masterchef. Barnard College graduate in Economics.

Adam Nguyen

Harvard Econ, Business Analyst at Rakuten's ecommerce unit with posts in business planning, marketing analysis, and business intelligence.

Gaurav Agarwal

Creator@[vivify-it, medibeep, IdeaAte, JFDI ] •Worked at @barclays-capital •Studied at @iit •published researcher •imaginative, good with tech, word & design

John B

Significant Experience in IT Ops, LiveOPS, IT Support, and Customer Support.

Minoru Kawamoto

A full-stack software engineer, currently located in Tokyo.

C. Demetrakos

Japan. Two decades, marketing, strategy, m&a, deals in b. Actually knows what "wa" means. Rode the 9.0 no hands.

Selena Bennett

Bilingual Project Manager

Masato Otake

iOS Developer for 2 years. I made 1 game app on AppStore. Now making 1 Parse connected app. Keio univ. CS B3 in Japan. Worked at tekunodo inc. for 1 year.

Shohei Aoki

Founder Cumiki

Yuri Yoshimura

Working in a one of the top mystery shopping company as Project manager( International PM, PM Japan, Premium Brands Relation Manager).

Nikola Pavesic

project manager and system analyst based in Japan. Running projects on a short deadline. Passionate about the strong feedback culture and UX. Enjoys innovating.

André Kenji Horie

PhD student at University of Tokyo; Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Worked at IBM and Portugal Telecom

Umaraliev Islomjon

Takahiro Inoue

Designer,launched 3 apps for Apple store

Aiu Eo

Founded two companies in Japan

Sabina Yulo

Keisuke Kojima

Masahiko INADA

Masahiko Inada is a Founder & CEO at kabuku Inc., a leading startup relating making things in Japan.

和宏 井口

recruiting, including headhunting, web producer

Taichi Ebitani

yes

Masakazu Ohtsuka

iOS + node.js/golang + Ops, launched http://getirkit.com/ http://jsdo.it/ http://photobag.in/
http://maaash.jp/

Saya Koyanagi

Eleftherios Karapetsas

Awarded the Monbukagakusho scholarship issued by the Japanese government for research in Japan. Received a master degree in Engineer form Tokyo unviersity.
http://realintelligence.net

Susumu Kato

Worked at @recruit, @recruit Holdings • Studied at @keio-university

Benjamin Sullivan

Founder/Engineer @tadaku • Studied at @university-of-massachusetts-amherst • Bostonian abroad

Jeannie Nguyen

Self-motivated, strategically-focused Marketing and Product Management Professional with over ten years of financial sector experience.

Akiko Takahashi

Artist, programmer, columnist, translator etc. Worked at @ibm, @sun-microsystems • Studied at @kyoto-university
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/akipponn3

Jérôme Sénaillat

Form/Function. Tokyo/Paris.

Genki Shiozawa

Founder @kyoto-u-com • Worked at @recruit, @bebit • Studied at Kyoto

Carl Magnuson

Designer turned entrepreneur turned angel investor. Co-founder of LELO (sold), co-founder of Dreamler, founder of Criterion Investments.

Hidenari Aizawa

CEO, Founder

Hiroki Takeuchi Ph.D.

Founder POYNTER

Yusuke Aono

Working at I&G Partners, Inc.

Sagar Ranglani

Yuichi Abe

Founder sen-ya, @man-ya • Studied at @berklee-college-of-music

Etienne Noreau-Hebert

Founder and CTO of @liine • Worked at @vantrix • Studied at @university-of-montreal • Maker of things

Takamasa Doi

Worked at @aiesec, @nidec-corporation • Studied at @tokyo-university
http://tkmsd0821.blogspot.com/

Yuki Hamada

Founder of @cybridge, @cybridge Mobile. Investor in @axion, @fan-appli, @soratobu, @predge, @pa-corp. Team member of @cybridge.
http://yuki.blog.cybridge.jp/

Cain Lu

Founder @tier5 • Worked at @google, @microsoft • B.S./M.S @johns-hopkins-university

Kazunobu Seto

Founder @makamaka
http://blogs.bizmakoto.jp/kazunobuseto/

Takeaki Kubota

Launched 4 successful Android apps and 3 successful iOS apps. Worked at aitia.

Gary Rickert

Visionary, Entrepreneur and Investor

Victoria Lopez Clemente

Founder @mystar-japan-business-solutions-1 • Worked at @gembiosoft • Studied at @universidad-politecnica-de-valencia

Bradley Ford

Kharisma Nitiputra

Production engineer for high-performance sportscars. Strong mechanical and industrial engineering background. Passionate about cars and driving.

Ryo Tamaki

Worked at @samurai-incubate-1

Aaron Lovelace

Co-Founder @beestripe. Analytics Consultant for @microsoft, T-Mobile, Home Depot, Alaska Air. Founded Speekit which serves language learners in 176 countries.

Yoichiro Hara

Co-founder COO of Molcure, Co-founder CEO of Mashroom, Founder of iDEFIX

Barry Lachapelle

Designer with 12 years experience currently at IDEO Tokyo. Love to chat about ideas.
http://www.barrylachapelle.com

Victoria Healey

Canadian English teacher in Japan and foreign culture correspondent, promotor of Japanese culture amongst foreigners.

Ian Argyle

Project Development and Execution Wizard

Shawn Smith

Software engineer with experience writing Python, Node.js, and Go as well as functional programming languages such as Racket.
http://shawnps.net

Evgeny Lazarenko

PhD in Robotics (Tokyo Tech). Startup geek.
http://startuplife.asia

Karan Kalwani

Assistant Director now at GDK International Company Limited. Deans list of Northeastern University in Economics/Business Administration.

Kevin Dias

Experienced Ruby on Rails programmer. Business, analytics and finance background. Previously worked at @pnc-capital-markets.
http://www.diasks2.com

Toshiyuki Oka

Rails programmer, Sales, New bussiness developer, Launched 2 facebook app

MATT MILLER

Eko Nonoyama

Worked at @re-al-sandbox

Thomas Prost

Studied and worked in France, England and USA. Worked for different startups in San Francisco,London and Lyon.Now willing to discover the working world of Tokyo

Atsuyoshi Shimazu

Hajime Kuwayama

Founder of ZenClerk. We help e-commerce websites to close sales. Wanna surprise the world!

Caylon Neely

Intrigued by all aspects of marketing and promotion. Loving events and spreading a message. Currently exploring the world to absorb as much as I can in it.

Jesse

Account Manager at Vision Consulting Vision Consulting Services K.K. primarily supports multinational IT firms with Japan offices.

Simon Dennett

Product Designer @ Cerego Japan. Soup to nuts product guy. Strategy to deploy. Team leader, user experience architect, front end dev, visual designer, nice guy!

Guillaume Catella

Business development manager for Pacific Asia region • Founder of French web magazine • Self starter and challenger

Kenichi Kurosaki

CEO of @beartail. Student at @tsukuba-university university. Worked at big computer magazine companies as a technical writer and founded smartphone news web media.

Kenryu Sato

Founder of Ednity. Ednity is a collaborative learning platform for classrooms.
http://hackinsight.com/

Ronald Bell

Entrepreneur & software developer. Founded Bell Standard, Inc. Created over 750 apps for the iTunes Store.

Birkir A. Barkarson

Veteran software engineer with a BS in Physics. Experience with building and managing teams of engineers, setting up efficient workflows and processes.

Atsuhiko Kimura

CEO & Co-Founder at co-meeing Inc.

Zeng Pengcheng

Master student at SJTU; now research intern of NII, Japan.
http://engcube.com

Buddy Brown

Supported Overseas Launches of 3 Japan Technology SME's through executive coaching, technical communication and business strategy

Jon Clemons

Tokyo, Japan-based marketer, entrepreneur, tea aficionado and outdoorsman.
http://jonclemons.com/blog

Nishant Rodrigues

Developed a distributed telephony/voice-trading platform at IFS. Strong C++ and linux background.
http://nishantjr.github.io

William Teo

Shinya Mimura

Michael Hellwig

Ecommerce & Business Analyst

Aya Ota

Worked at KPMG as an audit associate.

Marius Giese

Digital Marketing Lead @ Reach7. Responsible for growth across all digital channels. SEO/SEM, Social, Content Marketing, Lead Generation

Kevin Adu-Sarkodie

Catherine Huntington

Business and Japanese Studies graduate with international start-up content management experience.

Casey Wahl

Red Brick Ventures is an incubation and acceleration platform dedicated to unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of Japan.

Charles Pribyl

Charles' Pribyl's research, the first ever to use fMRI to map the brain of consumers, was featured in the NY Times, and in the bestseller ‘Human Sigma.’

Liz Herber

Sales Operations. Startup obsessed. ScrumMaster in training. Currently @GiltGroupeJapan

Investor

Investor in @marono-media-k-k, @myfdb.

Hiroshi Shimo

Web Developer ex-startup founder & CEO: AHO Corporation(former @netaten-inc

Dewayne Debbs

Web developer extraordinaire, Scrum master, Telecommute consultant (US Citizen)

Yo Okubo

Working experiences in various jobs such as import/export, marketing, licensing, foods, translator, negotiator and etc.

Shun Sakurai

Co-founder/COO of Oarket Inc. in Japan. We are planning to move our office to CA, USA. Studied at University of Tokyo.

Shaun Harkness

Asia-based marketing and product management consultant.

Damion Witten

personal investor. early investor in guardtime

Garrett Albright

PHP/Drupal web developer; 7+ years professional experience from California to Tokyo; currently in Boise. ObjC/Ruby too. Looking for additional contract work.

Hiroyuki Haga

Founder of Placie. Worked at GREE, Autodesk, Alias|wavefront. Developer and Product Manager. GLOBIS MBA. Computer Science BS at University of Aizu.
http://hiroyukihaga.blogspot.jp/

Kenichi Takano

Team member of @marketgeek.
http://keketter.tumblr.com/

João Orui

Worked at @mixi-inc

Minae Miko Ito

Amar Akshat

Full stack enthusiast, with experiences into low level Kernel hacking and efficient API development, motivated to lead Startups to success.

Lance Quejada

I am a User Interface Designer and a hybrid one, a sweeper, who knows how to craft pixels and enjoy cranking codes at the same time.
http://voidnothings.com

Alexandre Balon-Perin

MS in Computer engineering, launched a webapp called Goodmoove, published in an international journal, looking for a challenge!

Tatsuo Sato

Co-Founder, CEO of @shiroube - The marketplace linking travelers with local residents to enable users to freely seek micro local guides. - http://shiroube.com/

Takafumi Haseda

Co-founder/CEO of Oarket Inc. Planning to move office to CA, USA. Studied at @tokyo Metropolitan. International retail background (Tribox Inc., a puzzle shop)

Sedol Lee

Director of @entsure. Pro Go player. World Rank #1. Won 35 Championships (15 major int'l titles). Over 40 million fans in Asia (China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan).

Satoru K

COO,CFO of @cafeworx-inc

Bruno Toshio Sugano

Software engineer, Founder of Init, Lover of puzzles and challenges.

Kenji Endo

Founded GaiaX (IPOed at 2006), then joined Pixta.

Gauthier Ginisty

French EMLyon business school student. Interested in the ways businesses emerge, connect with people and make things that matter.

Lang Thang

I graduated from Hanoi University Of Technology for a year. I am working as server side developer in a game development company. I am looking for a chance to work and touch with new and high technology with more challenge

Daisuke Ishikawa

‹\(´ㅂ` )/››‹‹\( 　´)/›› ‹‹\( ´ㅂ`)/››

Nguyen Minh Tuan

Interested in business in VietNam

Scott Lambert

Founder The Manx Entertainment Group, @conceptuous • Studied at @southern-cross-university

Kazuki Otsuka

Founder of @thinkx-inc
http://kazukiotsuka.wordpress.com/

Yuichi Ohori

Web Designer, Illustrator

Sho Mitsuya

Studied International Economics and currently working as an International Exhibition Organizer at Reed Exhibition; good at project planning and excution.

Ved Kamat

Multilingual, MBA graduate, Innovation and new business development consultant, emerging markets strategy

Kevin Aleman

Founder Tokyo Incubator @luxstack; sold 1st startup to @monster-worldwide; platform & app lead for Softbank, @yahoo-japan, @fujitsu; enterprise R&D for @adidas

Naoki Kato

UI/UX designer @sttir-inc

Gavin Thomas

A Software Engineering professional with 15 years experience of both Software Engineering teams, and customer-facing Consultancy Services

Andreas Hofmann

Project Manager and Marketing Associate at @marono-media-k-k University of Bern MBA 2008

Graham Bowkett

Established Graphic Designer with a strong multimedia background and a varied portfolio.

Laurence Bowen

worked with some of the biggest companys in Australia ANZ, MYOB to name a few and designed 5 apps in the app store and 3 non-customer facing apps lanched.

Paulus Ery Wasito Adhi

Generalist; Has passion on R&D; Mix creative and engineering skills;

Gavin Smith

Internationally minded and experienced Sales, Marketing, HR and creative thinker with bundles of energy and positivity.

ricardo

Trent McBride

Founder of Tadaku. Australian designer based in Tokyo, working globally.

Chef Paul Simeon

Worked at @regal-farms-llc-1

Fab

Project Manager and Computer Engineer

Wada Masataka

CEO of @miracoro. Master of pharmacy. worked at parexel international, dispensing pharmacy.

Jonathan Hewitt

UK origins, Physics / Electronics, BSc & FCA, 20+ years in Japan. Founding member $1bn+ sporting goods business. On board with LUXSTACK, its what retail needs

Kensuke Oikawa

Damien Bigot

Mobile Developer at Step-In with strong designer background

OKAMOTO Nau

Studied at @tsukuba-university

Maroun Baydoun

Software Engineer, advanced knowledge in Java and various web technologies, also competent in front-end development
http://www.marounbaydoun.com/

Kiana Danial

CEO @invest-diva
http://forexdiva.com/

MD. MIZANUR RAHMAN

BS in CSE, Generalist with back-end as main, Launch 5 online social game including one iOS/Android Native app, Work at GREE Japan.

Eric Hamilton

Investor in @recman.

Elpe Sosiawan Tholkhah

Exploring posibilities and looking forward to be a part of a tech startup in Tokyo

Taichi Ebitani

株式会社ヒューマンダイン。『AirIntern（エア・インターン）』をつくっています。Tiny punk. Dance like Jagger. Sing like Lennon. Work like dog. Founded Humandyne inc. Crafted http://t.co/TCYwQfsJvC

Ryotaro Nakayama(Naka)

CyberAgent Crowd Funding, inc.

Shugo Numano

Working at IDC Frontier as Engineer.
http://nushu123.blogspot.jp/

Thomas Pilicer

Founder @miklr

Carl Patrick Zam Zam

Godof

Arkadiusz Wójcik

New Business Development Manager specialized in Asian markets • Worked at @ernst-and-young • Studied at @university-of-hyogo

Dmytro Kovalov

Skilled infra engineer and architect. UNIX and web development.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi

Founder Byus

Sonia S

Smart city and social innovation consultant in Asia

Eric Sato

10 Year Expatriate - Bilingual Digital Marketing Professional. Natural leader. SEO SEM CMS Data-Driven, Innovator, User/Customer-first mentality.

Go Uetsuhara

Cristian Yamashita

More 14 years of experience developing solutions in telephony and web.

Yuina Okubo

Students at Padjadjaran University, Nanza University. In learning about technologies and mobile development environment.

Kensuke Nagae

Ruby Developer at @quipper, worked at @paperboy-co and @livedoor-com.
http://blog.kyanny.me/

Ryo Mikami

Simon Barducci

MBA with Information Systems, Project Development, created a small organisation

Francois BERENGER

research software engineer and system administrator

Kenichi Muto

Owner of MUTO CORPORATION in Tokyo Japan. We have been exporting various Japanese products to the company and individuals around the world.

Chang Yub Je

I want to work with "Start Up Company" because I am eager to challenge. Please contact me! You can download my resume from here ( http://tinyurl.com/ocy48ob )
http://jeyum2.blogspot.com

ChangYub Je

I want to work with "Start Up Company" because I am eager to challenge. Please contact me!

Yusuke Mito

Ying Huang

Kyoto-U CS Master degree. Works at GS.

George Arriola

Founder, President & COO @monohm. Global UX & Product Design for @sony on PlayStation 4 / Xperia / 4K. @apple led OSX / iOS UX frameworks for HTML5. Autodidact.

Noboru Iwayama

Business development/strategic partnership manager for Skype and BlackBerry; Seasoned product manager; Excellent technology sales/spokesperson

Carlos Sainz

Senior Java developer. 2 Msc. IT degrees. Spring certified developer. Worked across multiple industries; Proficient with DBs and HTML5 & CSS3.

Ryotaro Chikushi

Founder MoreTrax

Pramendra Gupta

Software Engineer

Hiroshi Sotome

Eddie Mehong

Cft Gobelins, i worked at marathon media, tms, neomis, satelight,bones, madhouse, a1pictures and as cofounder at ankama japan. Actually i founded my own company:Yapiko-animation

Koji Hirayama

5 new start up at Japan from scratch. 2 re-built Japan office and business development. 2 own businesses creation. 1 pure start up at US.

Katsushi Hioki

ex-Partner at Accenture. ex-Partner at Heidrick&Struggles.

Hirokuni Kawasaki

Launched 2 android applications, made Linux Device Driver at Sony Mobile.

Toda Yasuhiro

Retired after experienced in investment bank, insurance and accounting firm.

Thomas Nathan Torchia

Experience with range of technologies. Proficient in C++, PHP, SQL, Shell, JavaScript, Python and quick to learn. Creator of Linux distribution 'noop linux'.

Sean Flanagan

Tokyo-based Project Manager at major internet company

Takumi Miyazawa

Massimo Marolda

Soshi Hanamura

Ayumi Fukaya

Social Media Rock Star

Alberto Farnetti

Masaru Suzuki

Enthusiast, passionate about new tech and wearable devices. Founder @mmt-and-co, @syncbiz-pte-ltd • Worked at @77hz-ltd
http://masarusuzuki.tumblr.com/

Anu Zachariah

Worked at Capgemini

Andrew Cameron

Owner Muchacho Clothing. Founded 2007. Worked at Macquarie Bank, JP Morgan, Citco Fund Services. We are a swim and streetwear brand based in Sydney, Australia

Karl Caldeira

A Managing Partner of TMC Japan, Karl Caldeira focuses on developing the firm’s and search and recruitment techniques.
http://karlcaldeira.tumblr.com/

Yuichi Akimoto

lead front-end engineer. I launched 7 seccessfull social games.

Darren Evans

World class engineer with 20 years of experience. Worked at CERN, UBS, Walt Disney, Colt, Agency.com amongst others.
https://dazdaztech.wordpress.com/

Ferran Epifanio

Highly motivated Systems Administrator who worked on the Telecommunications industry since 2001 for Starmedia Network and France Telecom defining, installing, administering and troubleshooting *nix systems and the services running on top of them. Addition

George Buffett

Business angel

Yoshi

Yoshihide Takeda 9-4-701 Sanbancho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan 102-0075 Phone +81 3 5226 5752 [email protected] Age: 43 Nationality: American CAREER SUMMARY 10+ years managerial experience in IT industry - PMP Cerified Project Manager with prove

Joshua S Lundquist

Hope to start a digital music music (DTP) & graphic / web design school for kids in Tokyo
http://www.anincrediblewasteoftime.com

Minikomi

JS, go, Clojure

Le Son Tung

Dean Rainey

Founder @tabego

Joseph Zammit

Digital Front End Designer/Developer with over 8 years experience

Colin Magne

General manager and R&D engineer at SiliconStudio, Tokyo, Japan. Worked at a Startup in the Silicon Valley now bought by Microsoft.

Daisaku Yamamoto

Founder @lelele

Toru Tokikawa

Presidet & CEO at @rivertime-entertainment Inc. Creative at @dentsu Inc. Film Director with @radical.media

Paul Franz

Web designer since middle school, primarily work on independent gaming sites
http://retrylevel.com

Sounosuke Kita

Founder of IGL-Art Inc. Film Producer, Director, Writer. Mainly make samurai movies.

Yusuke Ohsaki

ibrahim güvendikler

industrial designer I offer innovation product designs and ideas by creativity that is changeable to profit based on "new".

Hiroyuki Fujihara

New Business Creator

Hiroki Sato

Developer / UX Designer.

Koji Wada

Worked at @nec-biglobe

Daichi Sakota

Freelance user experience designer / user interface designer. Worked at Yahoo Japan (2008-2012)
http://blog.daichisakota.com

Takanori Yokoi

COO of Increments,the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch.Open Network Lab is one of the most famous incubation in japan.Worked at Rakuten.

Swim Wims

Snowboarding at Zao, Hakuba, Kagura. Love iPhone, Android, Tokyo Tower, Kobe, Izu, Stockholm, swimming, Chopin, Bunin, Paris vu par....

Lars Kelley

Investor in @vanten-holdings.

Takaya Tokunaga

Founder, CEO, Hobby Fisherman Founded first paid Internet content site in Japan. Built core software for Namco, Nifty, AOL, Sonet, BIglobe, Visa, VeriSIgn...

KUWATA Naonori

Tomo Mizuno

tech vs design

Konno Motoi

Co founder of @mashroom-fm. @mashroom-fm help people playing instruments at home and participate in virtual jam session and practice with others.

Ebihara Hideyuki

David Hagege

Founder of @myndpage. Fond of programming, linguistics and neurology. 1st freelance programming job at 18 for @novonordisk Laboratories. Graduated from Epitech.

rifki fauzi

Freelance Ruby on rails developer. worked at Domikado, Kiranatama
http://rifkifauzi.wordpress.com

Takeshi Yanagiuchi

Xiang Wu

Nothing

Kengo Nakamura

Founder @localgraph • Worked at @recruit