BOARD MEMBERS

SATOSHI YAMAWAKI

CEO
Born in Japan. Studied PR in Baruch college (NY). After worked for media industry in US, founded IT companies.

YASUO KAWABATA

After graduated from the University of Tokyo, worked for major ad and telco companies, as well as a subsidiary of foreign startup.

YOKOGAWA KIMIYOSHI

After graduating from Osaka Kyoiku University with a Bachelor's degree in Education and completing a Master's degree at Osaka Kyoiku University Graduate School, he joined Castalia Co. He holds a special license for information science at high school. At university, he conducted research on programming education. He also develops, supervises, and creates curriculum for programming education content, and teaches workshops for children, instructor training seminars, and programming seminars.

AUDITOR

HIROYUKI WAKAMATSU

Graduated from the University of Tokyo. Running an accounting firm.

CORPORATE ADVISER

ICHIYA NAKAMURA

After graduating from Kyoto University, the Kyoto native started his career at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications). After being involved in Japan's governmental IT policies for 14 years, he became the visiting professor at MIT's Media Lab. In September 2002, he was appointed Director of Stanford Japan Center-Research. Today he is one of the key persons who bridges industry, academia, and government, participating in numerous work groups and governmental organisations.

TARO MATSUMURA

Journalist, Researcher of KEIO Research Institute at SFC and lecturer. Main area: Mobile communication and social learning.