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.

Tomoya Sasaki

デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab

Nobutake Suzuki

Venture Capitalist and Partner at Global Brain Corp.

Jonathan Matus

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

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 Sullivan

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

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

Norman Rohr

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

Eric Kwan

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

Wicks Walker

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

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

Shogo Kawada

Co-founder of DeNA

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/

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/

Akinori "Aki" Koto

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

Mitch Kitamura

Managing Director at Draper Nexus

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

Mathias Schilling

Entrepreneurial VC with truly global exposure

Ben Lam

Based in Japan

Jonathan Levine

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

Jun Nakajima

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

Tadaaki Kimura (Tad)

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

Jonathan Yaffe

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

Mike Kofi Okyere

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

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).

Philippe Guelton

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

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.

Shotaro Tanaka

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

John Stokes

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

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

Christopher Wendel

Partner and CFO

Linda Dannenberg

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

Gen Miyazawa

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

Shinya Okumura

Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.

Shinji Asada

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

Paul Ford

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

James Riney

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

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!

Hitoshi Kawanabe

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

Yoshinari Yoshikawa

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

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/

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.

Michael Hoydich

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

Robert Laing

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

Akinori Shibuya

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

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

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

Daisuke Horie

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

Eric Nakagawa

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

Salil Pradhan

Venture Partner, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners

Ryan McGrath

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

Sandeep Casi

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

Shotaro Asano

Vice President at Recruit Strategic Partners

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/

Masataka Matsumoto

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

Nicholas Wang

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

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.

Kiyo Kobayashi

Founder and CEO @remotus @nobot

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/

Tokiharu Noto

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

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.

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.

Kyohei Teshima

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

Jin Koh

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

nagata0321

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

Mikio Tsukamoto

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

Kensuke (Ken) Murashima

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

Maja Komel

junior developer

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.

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

Tomoyuki Kamada

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

Akio Tanaka

Takuro Wakabayashi

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

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

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.

Hirokazu Nagano

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

Paul Papadimitriou

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

Mayel de Borniol

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

Satoshi Sugie

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

Franky Chung

CTO of @language-cloud

Yeh Eduardo

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

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

Dr. Serkan Toto

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

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

Gen Isayama

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

Nao Tokui

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

Satoshi Suzuki

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

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.

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.

Mark McFarlane

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

Kentaro Sakakibara

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

Shu Uesugi

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

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.

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

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

Herman Schaaf

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

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

Aaron Rutledge

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

Batara Eto

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

Ricardo Porto

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

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

Kenneth Auchenberg

Interface Developer with a passion for user experience

Hiroki Mita

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

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.

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.

Alexander Wilhelm

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

Takayuki Miyauchi

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

Marina Khonina

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

Eiji Araki

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

Shintaro Yamada

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

Dmytro Yashkir

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

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!

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

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/

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/

Federico Bucchi

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

Akiko Naka

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

Heather R Morgan

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

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.

Casey Grooms

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

tom uemura

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

Joel Dietz

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

Jeffrey Char

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

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

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

Gaku Hagiwara

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

Masashi Kobayashi

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

Stephanie Ardrey

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

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/

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

Shinji Morishita

Dominik Steiner

CEO @marono-media-k-k

Vikram Upadhyaya

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

Joe Chan

Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.

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

Adam Smith

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

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)

Tomoya Konishi

co-founder of Increments.

Dave Jenkins

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

Sergio Arcos Sebastián

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

Sam Cohan

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

Mika Takagi

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

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.

Takeshi Hirano

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

Hilo Iketani

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

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

Yoshihiko Kinoshita

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

Yusuke Murata

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

Tak Tsuchiya

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

Eddie Palmer

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

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

Dmitri Tcherbadji

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

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

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

Yukihiro Ikemi

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

Ryuichi Nishida

Former TechCrunch Japan editor.

Akky Akimoto

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

Michael Reinsch

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

Akihiko Yamada

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

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/

Takeshi Ebihara

Venture Capitalist in Asia

Ludovic Copéré

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

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.

Yoshiki C. Yasui

Founder & CEO @origami-4

Kengo Ito

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

Andrew Smith Lewis

Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Cerego LLC

Michael Song

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

Nicolas Loeillot

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

Keisuke Wada

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

Ted Yamamoto

General partner at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital

Taehwan Kim

Head of Worldwide Corporate and Business Development at @nexon

Kohei Ishida

CEO of Tokyo based startup @campfire.

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.

Reo Kasai

Associate @ Incubate Fund

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.

David Liebreich

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

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

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

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.

Thierry BEZIER-MEMBREY

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

Vincent Sider

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

Shota Morozumi

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

Elaine Huang Crawford

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

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 Cowgill

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

Sean Bonner

Misanthropologist

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

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

Barbara Lippe

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

Fon Tran

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

Atsushi Nagase

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

Yusuke Kawasaki

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

Evan Grossman

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

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

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/

Ricardo Sousa

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

Calvin Chun-yu Chan

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

Martin Konrad

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

Asia Fondue

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

Marcus Tonndorf

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

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

Kyle DuPont

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

Lucas Doyle

Yosuke Ishizaki

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

Sam Thomas

Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships @ HPC.

Esteban Miyashiro

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

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/

Derek Underwood

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

Pietro Zuco

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

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

Tatsuhei Asanuma

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

Tomoaki Sato

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

Russ Ferguson

Interactive Developer Web/Device Developing Second Screen experiences

Christopher Organ

USC Business Administration-Cinematic Arts Graduate

Ryutaro Yokoyama

Founder of Etsuri

Ryan Roth

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

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.

Justin Clune

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

Takara Bullock

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

Takuro Kasahara

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

Takuya Itamoto

Founder & CEO of Startouts Inc

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.

Toshihiko Kamei

Jon Keating

CTO at @frafty

Neil Rubens

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

Pierre Gaulis

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

Chad Iverson

Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group

Nino Popa

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

Yushi Ohmori

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

Bernadette Castillo

Katayama

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

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.

Hide Furutani

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

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

Ski Muir Milburn

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

Hajime Nagatomo

Worked at @recruit

Keech Nakamura

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

Bart Riepe

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

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/

Yusuke Ohsaki

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

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

Richard Lam

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

Julien Cayzac

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

Charles Ovink

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

Paul Contreras

see my profile in linkedin

Giles Duke

TT Chu

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

Dan Boswell

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

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.

John Zhuang

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

Jimi Jackson

http://blog.jimijackson.com

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

Hideyuki Shoda

Co-Founder and CEO 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

Scott Payne

TBD

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/

Takafumi Shibasaki

Co-founder of @10sec.

Ryo Kawamura

Software engineer who has speciality in machine learning.

Oreste Signori

Experienced Early Stage Ventures Manager and Consultant

Brittney Herron

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

Mayu Shimizu

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

Shimizu Takumi

Founder Combinator. Strong business background(Sansan).

Bart T. Sitek

Founder @securo, @instatrip

Isao Matsushima

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

Erick Mazer Yamashita

George Cheng

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

Yoshi Iketani

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

Tomohiro Nakamura

Banker

Steven Yuen

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

Ulas Bardak

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

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/

Yoki Okawa

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

Daisuke Fujimura

Mid to expert level Rails programmer.

Akihito Morita

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

Ryota Sekine

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

Yutaka Ichibangase

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

Rishabh Mahajan

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

Michio Montgomery

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

Kana Nakako

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

Allen Wang

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

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

Yuichi Kori

Founder of Otsumu Inc.

Sorato Ijichi

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

Pedro FARFAN

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

Satoshi Taniguchi

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

Dave Seyb

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

Nobuyuki Tanaka

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.

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.

Shotaro Tsuda

E.I.R @ beenos.

Thomas Tachibana

Wesleyan Bioinformatics, [email protected] Groupe Japan, Analtytically Driven PM
https://m.giltcity.jp

Yannick Gouez

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

Adam Nguyen

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

John B

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

Oleg Zuravljov

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.

Kash Faheem

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

Brian de Heus

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

Gaurav Agarwal

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

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.

Will Glozer

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

Ryuji Matsumura

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

和宏 井口

recruiting, including headhunting, web producer

Sabina Yulo

Masahiko INADA

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

André Kenji Horie

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

Takahiro Inoue

Designer,launched 3 apps for Apple store

Keisuke Kojima

Saya Koyanagi

Selena Bennett

Bilingual Project Manager

Shohei Aoki

Founder Cumiki

Aiu Eo

Founded two companies in Japan

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.

Masakazu Ohtsuka

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

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.

Taichi Ebitani

yes

Umaraliev Islomjon

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.

Yuri Yoshimura

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

Hiroki Takeuchi Ph.D.

Founder POYNTER

Susumu Kato

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

Genki Shiozawa

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

Jérôme Sénaillat

Form/Function. Tokyo/Paris.

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

Takamasa Doi

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

Hidenari Aizawa

CEO, Founder

Etienne Noreau-Hebert

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

Akiko Takahashi

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

Benjamin Sullivan

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

Carl Magnuson

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

Yusuke Aono

Working at I&G Partners, Inc.

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/

Sagar Ranglani

Yuichi Abe

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

Jeannie Nguyen

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

Cain Lu

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

Ryo Tamaki

Worked at @samurai-incubate-1

Toshiyuki Oka

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

Aaron Lovelace

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

Kharisma Nitiputra

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

Karan Kalwani

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

Victoria Healey

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

Victoria Lopez Clemente

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

Gary Rickert

Visionary, Entrepreneur and Investor

Yoichiro Hara

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

Kevin Dias

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

Evgeny Lazarenko

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

Shawn Smith

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

MATT MILLER

Bradley Ford

Barry Lachapelle

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

Ian Argyle

Project Development and Execution Wizard

Kazunobu Seto

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

Takeaki Kubota

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

Ronald Bell

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

Atsuhiko Kimura

CEO & Co-Founder at co-meeing Inc.

Eko Nonoyama

Worked at @re-al-sandbox

Atsuyoshi Shimazu

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.

Jesse

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

Buddy Brown

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

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!

Kenryu Sato

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

Hajime Kuwayama

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

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.

Jon Clemons

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

Zeng Pengcheng

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

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

Guillaume Catella

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

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.

William Teo

Damion Witten

personal investor. early investor in guardtime

Yo Okubo

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

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.

Casey Wahl

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

Dewayne Debbs

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

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.

Catherine Huntington

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

Shaun Harkness

Asia-based marketing and product management consultant.

Aya Ota

Worked at KPMG as an audit associate.

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.’

Marius Giese

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

Kevin Adu-Sarkodie

Shinya Mimura

Liz Herber

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

Hiroshi Shimo

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

Nishant Rodrigues

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

Michael Hellwig

Ecommerce & Business Analyst

Investor

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

Amar Akshat

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

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/

João Orui

Worked at @mixi-inc

Kenji Endo

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

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).

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/

Minae Miko Ito

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

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)

Kenichi Takano

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

Bruno Toshio Sugano

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

Satoru K

COO,CFO of @cafeworx-inc

Alexandre Balon-Perin

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

Graham Bowkett

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

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

Gavin Thomas

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

Kazuki Otsuka

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

Ved Kamat

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

Naoki Kato

UI/UX designer @sttir-inc

Andreas Hofmann

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

Nguyen Minh Tuan

Interested in business in VietNam

Gauthier Ginisty

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

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.

Scott Lambert

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

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

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Gavin Smith

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

Eric Hamilton

Investor in @recman.

Trent McBride

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

Fab

Project Manager and Computer Engineer

OKAMOTO Nau

Studied at @tsukuba-university

Kensuke Oikawa

Chef Paul Simeon

Worked at @regal-farms-llc-1

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

ricardo

Maroun Baydoun

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

Damien Bigot

Mobile Developer at Step-In with strong designer background

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.

Wada Masataka

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

Paulus Ery Wasito Adhi

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

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.

Shugo Numano

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

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

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi

Founder Byus

Eric Sato

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

Thomas Pilicer

Founder @miklr

Elpe Sosiawan Tholkhah

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

Dmytro Kovalov

Skilled infra engineer and architect. UNIX and web development.

Sonia S

Smart city and social innovation consultant in Asia

Ryotaro Nakayama(Naka)

CyberAgent Crowd Funding, inc.

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

Kensuke Nagae

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

Ying Huang

Kyoto-U CS Master degree. Works at GS.

Noboru Iwayama

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

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

Yuina Okubo

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

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

Francois BERENGER

research software engineer and system administrator

Go Uetsuhara

Simon Barducci

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

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.

Yusuke Mito

ChangYub Je

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

Ryo Mikami

Cristian Yamashita

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

Kenichi Muto

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

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.

Sean Flanagan

Tokyo-based Project Manager at major internet company

Pramendra Gupta

Software Engineer

Hirokuni Kawasaki

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

Ayumi Fukaya

Social Media Rock Star

Anu Zachariah

Worked at Capgemini

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/

Massimo Marolda

Takumi Miyazawa

Katsushi Hioki

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

Soshi Hanamura

Hiroshi Sotome

Alberto Farnetti

Toda Yasuhiro

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

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

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'.

Minikomi

JS, go, Clojure

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

Colin Magne

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

Yuichi Akimoto

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

Dean Rainey

Founder @tabego

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

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/

Le Son Tung

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/

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

Joshua S Lundquist

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

Joseph Zammit

Digital Front End Designer/Developer with over 8 years experience

George Buffett

Business angel

Hiroki Sato

Developer / UX Designer.

ibrahim güvendikler

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

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.

Sounosuke Kita

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

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

Hiroyuki Fujihara

New Business Creator

Yusuke Ohsaki

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

Daisaku Yamamoto

Founder @lelele

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.

Kengo Nakamura

Founder @localgraph • Worked at @recruit

Takeshi Yanagiuchi

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...

rifki fauzi

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

KUWATA Naonori

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.

Lars Kelley

Investor in @vanten-holdings.

Tomo Mizuno

tech vs design

Swim Wims

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

Xiang Wu

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