Ben Lam

Based in Japan

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/

Norman Rohr

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

Shotaro Tanaka

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

Tomoya Sasaki

デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab

Jonathan Yaffe

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

Justin Sullivan

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

Tadaaki Kimura (Tad)

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

Jonathan Matus

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

Wicks Walker

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

Eric Kwan

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

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

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.

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.

Ryota Matsuzaki

Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.

Shogo Kawada

Co-founder of DeNA

Christopher Wendel

Partner and CFO

Justin Waldron

Founder @zynga

Kensuke (Ken) Murashima

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

Kiyo Kobayashi

Founder and CEO @remotus @nobot

Mikio Tsukamoto

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

nagata0321

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

Lee Smith

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

Mike Uesugi

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

Robert Laing

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

Masataka Matsumoto

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

Batara Eto

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

Gen Miyazawa

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

Jonathan Levine

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

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.

Shinya Okumura

Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.

Philippe Guelton

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

Keizo Tsutsui

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

Jin Koh

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

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

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.//

Dominik Steiner

CEO @marono-media-k-k

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.

Nicolas Loeillot

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

Akky Akimoto

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

Joe Chan

Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.

David Liebreich

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

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/

Eiji Araki

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

Ricardo Porto

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

Martin Konrad

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

tom uemura

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

Shintaro Yamada

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

Vikram Upadhyaya

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

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

Akira Kitamura

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

Elaine Huang Crawford

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

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.

Toda Yasuhiro

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

Katsushi Hioki

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

Eric Hamilton

Investor in @recman.

Damion Witten

personal investor. early investor in guardtime

Casey Wahl

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

Carl Magnuson

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

Swim Wims

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

Chad Iverson

Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group

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/

Investor

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

George Buffett

Business angel

Tomo Mizuno

tech vs design

Oleg Zuravljov

Kenji Endo

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

Shibuya Town

Invested in number of internet startups

Lars Kelley

Investor in @vanten-holdings.

Mayu Shimizu