CEO, Cynthialy Inc. After completing her graduate studies at Waseda University, she worked in enterprise consulting and business development in the SaaS and AI sectors at SAP and an AI startup. She later founded a company specializing in AI business development support and high-level DX recruitment.
In 2022, she founded Cynthialy Inc., which offers AI Transformation (AIX) services, including generative AI talent development and enterprise-level AI adoption programs.
She is the founder of Women AI Initiative, a community empowering women in AI reskilling, and serves as a guest professor at the Professional University of Information and Management for Innovation. She is also a standing committee member of the Generative AI Utilization and Promotion Association.
She supervised two Amazon bestselling books: The Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT for Business Professionals and The Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT for Creators.

Born in 1993. A graduate of Waseda University’s School of Social Sciences.
He has been active in building startups in the entertainment industry and has served as a producer at Studio ENTRE—a startup studio focused on entertainment—since 2020. There, he helped launch ventures such as Baby jam, an AI-powered artist manager service, and .mura, an NFT music marketplace.
He is also involved in managing the light novel publishing company BookBase, contributing to the development of new ventures in the entertainment domain.
In 2021, he founded the Startup Studio Association of Japan to raise awareness of startup studios, and as of 2024, serves as its Co-Chairperson.

After joining Medley, Inc. in 2015, he held business development leadership roles in healthtech across startups and a major trading group. He earned his Ph.D. in Public Health from Kyoto University in 2019 and founded a company focused on affordable, high-quality contract services for R&D and new business development in the healthcare field—now implemented by over 100 organizations.

Since 2021, he has served as an associate professor, teaching healthcare business and public health. In 2024, alongside his academic role, he rejoined Medley, Inc. to lead minority investments and strategic partnerships under the company’s open innovation initiatives.

Trilingual in Japanese, Chinese, and English, he has studied at 8 universities around the world, including in Shanghai, Victoria (Canada), London, New York, and Tokyo.

He founded two companies from his student years, and produced numerous cross-disciplinary projects across software, events, and media, such as the travel app "JourneyNote," the traditional crafts media platform "Craft Letter," and Japan's first NFT solo exhibition, "Friends of the Shallows."

In 2022, he launched “IVS Crypto,” Japan’s largest blockchain conference. By 2024, as the main event of Japan Blockchain Week, IVS Crypto along with its side events has attracted over 50,000 participants from around the world. Starting in 2025, he was appointed as the Head of IVS Global.

She began her career at Career Design Center in 2002, then joined Google in 2007 as Head of the Recruitment Industry Division. After leading partnership efforts for the “Women Will Project,” she left in 2016 to establish the nonprofit at Will Work.

Following roles at The Money Design and Plug and Play Japan (where she led marketing and PR), she founded the Japan Startup Ecosystem Association in March 2022 and now serves as its Representative Director.

In addition to her core role, she became an Associated Specialist Advisor at A.T. Kearney in November 2024. She also serves on multiple public innovation initiatives, including as a Cabinet Office Startup & Innovation Committee Expert Member, Tokyo Metropolitan Startup Fellow, and SCPN Coordinator.

After starting his career at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance in 2018 supporting mid-sized businesses, he joined Accenture in 2020. At the Strategy & Consulting division, he was involved in corporate strategy, financial analysis, DX initiatives, and PMO operations. He later joined Accenture Ventures to manage accelerator programs and startup collaboration. In 2022, he became part of Incubate Fund, where he now focuses on deal sourcing and supporting portfolio companies as an Associate.

With prior experience at a leading consulting firm and a major audit corporation, I joined EY ShinNihon LLC in 2021. Since then, I have been primarily engaged in IPO advisory services, supporting a diverse portfolio of clients ranging from early-stage startups to publicly listed companies. As a core member of EY Startup Innovation, EY Japan’s dedicated startup support team, I have led numerous initiatives including IPO preparation, large-scale fundraising, and strategic business planning. In 2023, I established EY Startup Lab with the aim of further fostering the growth of Japan’s startup ecosystem.