Akinori "Aki" Koto

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

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.

Wicks Walker

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

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/

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

Christine Tsai

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

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/

Shogo Kawada

Co-founder of DeNA

Norman Rohr

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

Hiro Maeda

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

Justin Sullivan

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

Justin Waldron

Founder @zynga

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.

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

Eric Kwan

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

Ryota Matsuzaki

Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.

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

Shotaro Tanaka

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

Christopher Wendel

Partner and CFO

Jonathan Levine

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

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.

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.

Ben Lam

Based in Japan

Jun Nakajima

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

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.

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).

Mathias Schilling

Entrepreneurial VC with truly global exposure

FUMIHIKO ISHIMARU

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

Philippe Guelton

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

John Stokes

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

Mike Kofi Okyere

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

Linda Dannenberg

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

Eric Nakagawa

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

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/

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

Daisuke Horie

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

Shinya Okumura

Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.

Hitoshi Kawanabe

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

Gen Miyazawa

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

Yoshinari Yoshikawa

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

James Riney

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

Michael Hoydich

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

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

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

Robert Laing

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

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.

Paul Ford

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

Akinori Shibuya

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

Salil Pradhan

Venture Partner, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners

Shinji Asada

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

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.//

Jin Koh

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

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.

Mike Uesugi

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

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

Masataka Matsumoto

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

Takao Ozawa

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

Sandeep Casi

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

Sunny Tsang

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

Kyohei Teshima

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

Yuya Takegawa

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

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

Bryan Lee

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

Kiyo Kobayashi

Founder and CEO @remotus @nobot

Ryan McGrath

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

Josef Dunne

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

Tokiharu Noto

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

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/

Kensuke (Ken) Murashima

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

Paul Papadimitriou

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

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.

Takuro Wakabayashi

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

Mayel de Borniol

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

Masayuki Sarukawa

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

Mikio Tsukamoto

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

Tomoyuki Kamada

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

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.

Maja Komel

junior developer

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

Akio Tanaka

Satoshi Suzuki

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

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

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.

Rob Pereyda

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

Nao Tokui

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

Yeh Eduardo

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

Satoshi Sugie

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

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.

Mark McFarlane

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

Franky Chung

CTO of @language-cloud

Yusuke Takahashi

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

Clancey Stahr

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

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

Yu Shinohara

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

Lee Smith

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

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.

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

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.

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

Herman Schaaf

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

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.

Aaron Rutledge

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

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.

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

Ricardo Porto

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

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

Shu Uesugi

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

Marina Khonina

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

Batara Eto

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

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

Kenneth Auchenberg

Interface Developer with a passion for user experience

Dmytro Yashkir

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

Shintaro Yamada

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

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

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.

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

tom uemura

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

Akira Kitamura

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

Jeffrey Char

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

Adam Smith

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

Stephanie Ardrey

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

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)

Hiroshige Umino

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

Masashi Kobayashi

Vikram Upadhyaya

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

Shinji Morishita

Joe Chan

Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.

Joel Dietz

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

Gaku Hagiwara

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

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

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/

Hadrien Raffalli

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

Sergio Arcos Sebastián

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

Tomoya Konishi

co-founder of Increments.

Sam Cohan

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

Hilo Iketani

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

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.

Tak Tsuchiya

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

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

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

Dave Jenkins

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

Eddie Palmer

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

Ryuichi Nishida

Former TechCrunch Japan editor.

Yukihiro Ikemi

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

Yusuke Murata

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

Takeshi Hirano

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

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

Mika Takagi

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

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

Kengo Ito

Nicolas Loeillot

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

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

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.

Ted Yamamoto

General partner at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital

Akihiko Yamada

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

Taehwan Kim

Head of Worldwide Corporate and Business Development at @nexon

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

Keisuke Wada

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

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

Ludovic Copéré

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

Takeshi Ebihara

Venture Capitalist in Asia

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/

Vincent Sider

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

Reo Kasai

Associate @ Incubate Fund

David Liebreich

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

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

Elaine Huang Crawford

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

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

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

Sean Bonner

Misanthropologist

Thierry BEZIER-MEMBREY

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

Kohei Ishida

CEO of Tokyo based startup @campfire.

David Cowgill

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

Nao Iizuka

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

Shota Morozumi

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

Maurio Leon Guerrero

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

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.

Maiko Kojima

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

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

Evan Grossman

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

Barbara Lippe

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

Asia Fondue

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

Jordan Adams

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

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

Qn. Everlena Brown

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

Calvin Chun-yu Chan

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

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

Ricardo Sousa

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

Yuki Nishijima

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

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

Atsushi Nagase

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

Martin Konrad

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

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

Yusuke Kawasaki

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

Tomoaki Sato

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

Pietro Zuco

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

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.

Yosuke Ishizaki

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

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

Sam Thomas

Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships @ HPC.

Ryutaro Yokoyama

Founder of Etsuri

Kyle DuPont

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

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/

Ryan Roth

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

Russ Ferguson

Interactive Developer Web/Device Developing Second Screen experiences

Christopher Organ

USC Business Administration-Cinematic Arts Graduate

Tatsuhei Asanuma

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

Derek Underwood

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

Lucas Doyle

Chad Iverson

Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group

Katayama

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

Bernadette Castillo

Toshihiko Kamei

Jon Keating

CTO at @frafty

Hide Furutani

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

Neil Rubens

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

Chikara Shimizu

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

Takuya Itamoto

Founder & CEO of Startouts Inc

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.

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.

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.

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

Hajime Nagatomo

Worked at @recruit

David R

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

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.

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/

Bart Riepe

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

Keech Nakamura

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

Julien Cayzac

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

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

Tai Watanabe

CEO of MediaProbe Inc.

Ski Muir Milburn

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

Charles Ovink

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

Yusuke Ohsaki

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

Ruri Eguchi

Yefeng Liu

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

Richard Lam

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

Takafumi Shibasaki

Co-founder of @10sec.

Scott Payne

TBD

Paul Contreras

see my profile in linkedin

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

Oreste Signori

Experienced Early Stage Ventures Manager and Consultant

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

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.

Brittney Herron

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

TT Chu

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

Giles Duke

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/

Dan Boswell

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

Hideyuki Shoda

Co-Founder and CEO of 10SEC

Ryo Kawamura

Software engineer who has speciality in machine learning.

Jimi Jackson

http://blog.jimijackson.com

John Zhuang

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

George Cheng

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

Bart T. Sitek

Founder @securo, @instatrip

Daisuke Fujimura

Mid to expert level Rails programmer.

Isao Matsushima

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

Masahiro Saito

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

Yoshi Iketani

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

Yoki Okawa

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

Shibuya Town

Invested in number of internet startups

Mayu Shimizu

Shimizu Takumi

Founder Combinator. Strong business background(Sansan).

Tomohiro Nakamura

Banker

Akihito Morita

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

Ulas Bardak

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

Erick Mazer Yamashita

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

Yutaka Ichibangase

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

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

Michio Montgomery

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

Pedro FARFAN

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

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.

Nobuyuki Tanaka

Yuichi Kori

Founder of Otsumu Inc.

Ryota Sekine

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

Sorato Ijichi

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

Allen Wang

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

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

Kana Nakako

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

Thomas Tachibana

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

Brian de Heus

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

Yannick Gouez

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

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.

Adam Nguyen

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

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.

Oleg Zuravljov

Ryuji Matsumura

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

Will Glozer

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

Shotaro Tsuda

E.I.R @ beenos.

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.

Kash Faheem

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

John B

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

Gaurav Agarwal

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

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.

Shohei Aoki

Founder Cumiki

Masakazu Ohtsuka

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

C. Demetrakos

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

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.

Umaraliev Islomjon

Takahiro Inoue

Designer,launched 3 apps for Apple store

Yuri Yoshimura

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

Selena Bennett

Bilingual Project Manager

和宏 井口

recruiting, including headhunting, web producer

Taichi Ebitani

yes

André Kenji Horie

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

Minoru Kawamoto

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

Aiu Eo

Founded two companies in Japan

Sabina Yulo

Saya Koyanagi

Keisuke Kojima

Masahiko INADA

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

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/

Yuichi Abe

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

Takamasa Doi

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

Susumu Kato

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

Jeannie Nguyen

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

Etienne Noreau-Hebert

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

Genki Shiozawa

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

Hidenari Aizawa

CEO, Founder

Hiroki Takeuchi Ph.D.

Founder POYNTER

Akiko Takahashi

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

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

Benjamin Sullivan

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

Yusuke Aono

Working at I&G Partners, Inc.

Sagar Ranglani

Carl Magnuson

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

Jérôme Sénaillat

Form/Function. Tokyo/Paris.

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

Cain Lu

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

Toshiyuki Oka

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

Kharisma Nitiputra

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

Victoria Lopez Clemente

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

Evgeny Lazarenko

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

Kevin Dias

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

Gary Rickert

Visionary, Entrepreneur and Investor

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

Kazunobu Seto

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

Victoria Healey

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

Karan Kalwani

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

Ryo Tamaki

Worked at @samurai-incubate-1

Takeaki Kubota

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

Yoichiro Hara

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

Aaron Lovelace

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

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.

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.

Buddy Brown

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

Zeng Pengcheng

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

Jesse

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

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.

Ronald Bell

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

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!

Hajime Kuwayama

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

Kenryu Sato

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

Atsuyoshi Shimazu

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

Jon Clemons

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

Atsuhiko Kimura

CEO & Co-Founder at co-meeing Inc.

Michael Hellwig

Ecommerce & Business Analyst

Kevin Adu-Sarkodie

Shaun Harkness

Asia-based marketing and product management consultant.

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.

William Teo

Shinya Mimura

Marius Giese

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

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.’

Damion Witten

personal investor. early investor in guardtime

Catherine Huntington

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

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.

Hiroshi Shimo

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

Casey Wahl

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

Aya Ota

Worked at KPMG as an audit associate.

Nishant Rodrigues

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

Investor

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

Liz Herber

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

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.

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).

Kenichi Takano

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

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/

Satoru K

COO,CFO of @cafeworx-inc

João Orui

Worked at @mixi-inc

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)

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/

Amar Akshat

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

Minae Miko Ito

Kenji Endo

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

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!

Bruno Toshio Sugano

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

Gauthier Ginisty

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

Graham Bowkett

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

Kazuki Otsuka

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

Gavin Thomas

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

Ved Kamat

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

Naoki Kato

UI/UX designer @sttir-inc

Scott Lambert

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

Yuichi Ohori

Web Designer, Illustrator

Daisuke Ishikawa

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Nguyen Minh Tuan

Interested in business in VietNam

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

Sho Mitsuya

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

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

Andreas Hofmann

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

OKAMOTO Nau

Studied at @tsukuba-university

Fab

Project Manager and Computer Engineer

Paulus Ery Wasito Adhi

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

Chef Paul Simeon

Worked at @regal-farms-llc-1

ricardo

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.

Kiana Danial

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

Kensuke Oikawa

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.

Trent McBride

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

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

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

Wada Masataka

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

Eric Hamilton

Investor in @recman.

Gavin Smith

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

Thomas Pilicer

Founder @miklr

Eric Sato

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

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

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.

Arkadiusz Wójcik

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

Sonia S

Smart city and social innovation consultant in Asia

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi

Founder Byus

Carl Patrick Zam Zam

Godof

Ryotaro Nakayama(Naka)

CyberAgent Crowd Funding, inc.

Shugo Numano

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

Kensuke Nagae

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

ChangYub Je

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

Ryotaro Chikushi

Founder MoreTrax

Cristian Yamashita

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

Carlos Sainz

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

Ryo Mikami

Go Uetsuhara

Yusuke Mito

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.

Kenichi Muto

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

Noboru Iwayama

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

Simon Barducci

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

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

Francois BERENGER

research software engineer and system administrator

Yuina Okubo

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

Ying Huang

Kyoto-U CS Master degree. Works at GS.

Massimo Marolda

Soshi Hanamura

Takumi Miyazawa

Toda Yasuhiro

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

Sean Flanagan

Tokyo-based Project Manager at major internet company

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

Pramendra Gupta

Software Engineer

Anu Zachariah

Worked at Capgemini

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.

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'.

Katsushi Hioki

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

Hirokuni Kawasaki

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

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/

Ayumi Fukaya

Social Media Rock Star

Joseph Zammit

Digital Front End Designer/Developer with over 8 years experience

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/

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

Minikomi

JS, go, Clojure

Yuichi Akimoto

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

Colin Magne

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

George Buffett

Business angel

Dean Rainey

Founder @tabego

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

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/

Le Son Tung

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

Joshua S Lundquist

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

Hiroki Sato

Developer / UX Designer.

Koji Wada

Worked at @nec-biglobe

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

Yusuke Ohsaki

Daichi Sakota

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

Hiroyuki Fujihara

New Business Creator

Sounosuke Kita

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

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.

ibrahim güvendikler

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

Swim Wims

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

Xiang Wu

Nothing

Takeshi Yanagiuchi

Lars Kelley

Investor in @vanten-holdings.

rifki fauzi

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

David Hagege

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

Tomo Mizuno

tech vs design

KUWATA Naonori

Kengo Nakamura

Founder @localgraph • Worked at @recruit

Ebihara Hideyuki

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...

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.