At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Japan based COO’ operating in the Financial Services space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Seth Melamed
Chief Operating Officer of Liquid Global
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About Liquid Global: Liquid Global is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to provide liquidity to the crypto economy.
Takefumi Uda
COO of Gojo & Company
Takefumi Uda is the COO of Gojo and Company.
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About Gojo & Company: Gojo extends financial inclusion to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
Takefumi Uda
COO of Gojo & Company
Takefumi Uda is the COO of Gojo and Company.
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About Gojo & Company: Gojo extends financial inclusion to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
Kazuyoshi Mishima
COO and founder of keychain
Kazuyoshi Mishima is the COO and founder at Keychain.
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About keychain: Keychain is the decentralized authentication blockchain platform for finance, IoT, and enterprise.
Osone Kazuhiko
Director COO of AlpacaJapan
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About AlpacaJapan: Building cutting-edge capital markets AI technology working with number of financial institutions
renfield kuroda
Asia Markets COO of National Australia Bank (NAB)
In Japan since 1994. Linguistically and culturally bilingual in Japanese and English. A specialist in the management of complex businesses, with experience in securities & banking and internet technologies, with a strong technical foundation from an early career as a software developer.
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About Mizuho Americas, National Australia Bank (NAB): NAB provides banking financial solutions such as internet banking, credit cards, accounts, insurance, as well as home and personal loans.
Ogata Masayuki
Director COO of Freee
Ogata Masayuki is the Director Chief Operating Officer of Freee.
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About Freee: Freee is online accounting software that syncs with bank accounts and automatically categorizes entries to create financial reports.
Toshihiko Katsuya
Managing Director/ COO of Monex Group
Toshihiko Katsuya’s career started at The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd. in 1989. Since joining the Company in 2006, he served as Representative Director & President of Monex FX since Oct. 2010, then has taken directorship positions at Monex, Inc. since June 2013. He was Representative Director and President of Monex. Inc. from Nov. 2015 to Oct. 2017. Katsuya was appointed Executive Officer in April 2016, then appointed Managing Director and Executive Officer in June 2017 and serves as Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer since April 2018.
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About Monex Group: Monex Group is a financial services to individual investors as an integrated online financial services broker.
Naoki Furukawa
Co-founder and COO of Emerada
Naoki is a Co-founder and COO at Emerada. Before co-founding Emerada, Naoki has served as financial planning analyst at General Electrics and equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Sachs, Naoki had covered large cap retailing companies as well as small to mid cap companies. Naoki received his B.A. in Economics from Waseda University. He was elected as a representative of Japan of Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations in 2006.
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About Emerada: Emerada is a bank account aggregation and cashflow analytics platform for SMEs and banks for enhancing lending activity in Japan.
Yabe Kota
Representative Director and COO of WED
Yabe Kota is the Representative Director and COO of WED.
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About WED: WED is an information technology based company.
Masakatsu Yamada
Chief Operating Officer of Japannext
Masakatsu Yamada is Chief Operating Officer at SBI Japannext.
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About Japannext: Japan’s oldest and largest Proprietary Trading System (PTS)