Founder and Former Executive Director

Izumi Kobayashi Founder Former Executive Director Current Positions: Member of the Board of Director, OMRON Corporation Independent Director, Fujitsu Limited Izumi Kobayashi is currently a Member of the Board, OMRON Corporation and an Independent Director, Fujitsu Limited. After graduating from university, she joined Mitsubishi Kasei Kogyo (now Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation). From 2001 to 2008, she…

Executive Director and Founder

Sachiko Kuno Executive Director and Founder Dr. Sachiko Kuno is the co-founder and Chair Emeritus of Halcyon, a nonprofit dedicated to the power of human creativity. Kuno also serves as CEO of S&R Evermay (formerly S&R Foundation), a 501(c)(3) she co-founded in 2000 to support talented individuals with great potential and high aspirations in the…

CEO and Founder

Yukiko Hashitera CEO and Founder MBA, Master of Public Health. After graduating of college of pharmacy, Yukiko Hashitera joined pharmaceutical industry and she was involved the development of glaucoma and chronic idiopathic constipation medicine as a researcher. In 2008 she succeeded the listing of R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. in Heracles Market (currently JASDAQ) as a CEO.…

Oki Matsumoto Founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Monex Group, Inc. Japan Representative Director & President, Monex, Inc. Japan Born in 1963. BA in Law from the University of Tokyo (1987). Began his career at Salomon Brothers and joined Goldman Sachs in 1990. He was the head of their fixed income and currency business in…

Tomy Kamada Founder Dr. Kamada is co-founder of ACCESS Co. Ltd. (listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), 
a global software company for mobile and beyond-PC markets. Dr. Kamada received a Doctorate in 
Computer Science from the University of Tokyo. He is also renowned as the inventor of “Compact HTML” 
for mobile phones, enabling successful mobile…