Principal (Japan)
Visionnaire Ventures, Inc.
Kenta has 10 years’ experience in corporate investing, including working in the global corporate development and investing groups at RECRUIT, and M&A advisory at KPMG.
He previously led corporate strategy and M&A at Digital Garage and has start-up experience as COO at LASO Co. (Acquired by Farfetch) and leads investment into technology-oriented startups and start-up ecosystem development at Mistletoe, Japan.
Managing Partner (Japan)
Visionnaire Ventures, Inc.
Fuyuki has 20 years’ experience in venture investment/incubation, private equity, and management consulting.
He is CIO/COO at Mistletoe and COO at MOVIDA (Taizo’s investment/incubation arms).
He was previously a consultant at Bain & Company and Roland Berger in TMT/manufacturing/M&A and Founding Member and Partner at Growth Capital.
Managing Partner
Susan has over 25 years experience in Tech investment, cross-border deals, operations and startups across Yahoo!, DLJdirect, and NHN and angel investing in San Francisco while advising SoftBank/Sprint in new media efforts. Susan was CEO and founder of a start-up, Outspark that was sold to Axl Springer.
Her previous roles include executive positions in New York at Merrill Lynch TMT Private Equity Research, DLJ Global Corporate Development and American Express Interactive Services Group Business Planning, a group spun out of American Express Strategic Planning.
Advisor
Atsushi has 30 years’ experience in tech industry working closely with Masa Son to support global business investments, JV formation/operation and startups in India, resulting in 10X+ business performance.
He previously held various executive roles at SoftBank SVP Global Business, Bharti SoftBank India CEO, MySpace Japan CEO, InMobi Board, SingTel JV Board, Yahoo! Japan CMO, DoCoMo AOL Corp Dev/CMO and Accenture.
Chairman (Japan)
Visionnaire Ventures, Inc.
Taizo is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in investing and incubating IT related venture companies in Asia. He is the Founder & CEO of Mistletoe Inc., as well as board member and advisor to various IT companies around the globe.
He founded Gungho Online which is one of the most successful online gaming companies in Japan in 2002, which had its IPO in 2005.
With a vision to create Silicon Valley-like venture eco-system in East Asia by year 2030, Taizo founded MOVIDA JAPAN in 2009. Then he founded Mistletoe, Inc. in 2013 in order to commence comprehensive entrepreneurs support and startup ecosystem development activities. He strongly believes the World could be transformed into better place by nurturing entrepreneurs which would lead the creation of next generation.