OFFICER

Concurrent Positions

President & CEO, Japan Digital Asset Trust, Inc.
Director, Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association
Chairman, Japan Cryptoasset Business Association
Representative Director, Japan Digital Decentralized Finance Association
Visiting Researcher, Waseda University Global Scientific Information and Fusion Research Institute

Profile

Fascinated by the potential of the Internet, he has been involved in launching and managing IT startups for many years. In 2012, convinced that cryptoasset technology would evolve into the "Internet of Money," he founded Bitbank, Inc. in 2014.
While driving the development of the domestic market through the cryptoasset exchange business, he established Japan Digital Asset Trust Preparatory Co., Ltd. (JADAT) in 2022 to enter the digital asset trust business for institutional investors and corporations. He is promoting infrastructure development for both trading and custody. Through the management of Bitbank and JADAT, he is leading the creation of a secure and reliable digital asset market and the healthy development of cryptoassets.

Career

April 1991　Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

December 1999　Executive Managing Director, InterQ, Inc. (now GMO Internet Group, Inc.)

May 2006　President & CEO, Gala Inc.

June 2008　Founded Comuca, Inc., President & CEO

November 2014　President & CEO, the Company (current)

May 2022　President & CEO, Japan Digital Asset Trust, Inc. (current)