Executive Profile

  • Kotaro Takahashi

    Kotaro Takahashi

    Representative Director/Data Scientist

    Joined AVILEN as a founding member and became President in 2021. Listed AVILEN on the TSE Growth in 2023. Completed graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, where he was engaged in research on instantaneous tsunami height prediction using machine learning. Member of the Standardization Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Financial Data Utilization.

  • Ryo Matsukura

    Ryo Matsukura

    Executive Officer, CEO/Consultant

    Graduated from the University of Tokyo and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Graduate School of Business Administration, majoring in Statistics/Finance. Studied data-driven management and data analysis at graduate school. After working for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and a foreign strategic consulting firm, supported strategy development and new business creation for large companies and start-ups, and DX for local governments. As a WG member of the web3PT WG of the LDP Digital Society Promotion Headquarters, engaged in the drafting of the "web3 White Paper". DX advisor to Kyoto City, and attorney at law.

  • Taku Ota

    Taku Ota

    Executive Officer, CRO/Consultant

    After completing graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, worked as a project leader at BCG and as an executive officer at unilabo (now PRONI) before joining AVILEN Inc. At BCG, worked on strategy development and implementation support for transformation and turnaround in industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, finance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, etc. At unilabo, was in charge of core businesses, overseeing five departments and engaged in business growth. Since joining AVILEN, has been in charge of the build-up business and leading large corporate accounts.

  • Takuo Nishiki

    Takuo Nishiki

    Director, CSO

    Graduated from Waseda University Graduate School. I have a career in investment banking for about 10 years and is well versed in M&A and general financial strategy. Most recently, as the person in charge of the corporate planning department of a listed company, I experienced operations such as capital and business alliances and IR. At AVILEN, I am not only responsible for finance, accounting, general affairs, and human resources, but also manage operations such as alliances with major companies, and have executed capital and business alliances with four listed companies.

  • Hiroaki Takada

    Hiroaki Takada

    Executive Officer, CFO/Certified Public Accountant

    Certified Public Accountant. After graduating from Rikkyo University Faculty of Law, worked in sales at an operating company before joining Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, where worked for about 5 years in auditing and IPO preparation support for clients in growth markets such as FinTech before joining AVILEN. Joined AVILEN in July 2024 and became Executive Officer in July 2024.

  • Takefumi Yoshikawa

    Takefumi Yoshikawa

    Chief technical officer/Data Scientist

    Graduated from the University of Tokyo. I have a history of winning awards such as passing the University of Tokyo Science Class 2 highest score, the Japan Biology Olympic Gold Prize in the final round, and the iGEM Gold Prize in the world competition of synthetic biology. AVILEN has a wide range of development projects such as image recognition, time series data analysis, and language processing. At the same time, I am in charge of supervising and teaching courses such as E qualification courses by making use of my abundant practical experience.

  • Masafumi Yokobori

    Masafumi Yokobori

    Executive Officer, General Manager of Build-up Strategy/Sales

    Graduated from Gakushuin University in 2011. Since I graduated, I have consistently worked in the field of Sales & Marketing. After working atThe Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited and Recruit Co., Ltd., I was responsible for growth from the launch of the business and organization as the SaaS business manager of a sports healthcare startup company. After that, I was enrolled at Kaizen Platform, Inc. before and after the IPO, supporting DX consulting, PJT promotion, and UX improvement for about 30 companies, mainly major companies.

  • Shengfu Hsiao

    Shengfu Hsiao

    Executive Officer CTO

    Graduated from National United University of Taiwan, Department of Architecture, and studied at Curtin University in Australia. 2008 came to Japan and engaged in development as an engineer in various business categories such as SaaS, EC site, game, and Sl. After that, I worked as CTO and general manager for about 8 years, leading IT strategy formulation, development organization construction, and QA supervision.

  • Kakeru Mitsuno

    Kakeru Mitsuno

    Executive Officer, D&A Solutions Manager/Data Scientist

    Graduate of Hiroshima University. Data scientist specializing in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, with a track record of peer-reviewed papers accepted for publication in several international conferences. Joined AVILEN in 2021, and as the youngest manager of the AI solution business, led the expansion of the business including IPO, and the launch and growth of the SaaS business. Provides support to companies in a wide range of industries to restructure their business models and fundamentally change their business processes based on data, AI, and digital.

  • Taneki Ono

    Taneki Ono

    Outside Director, Foreign Lawyer

    Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, LL.M, Cornell University Law School, USA, Cornell Business School M.B.A. Since 1988, I have been a US attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. From 1997 to 2010 I worked at Goldman Sachs. I will serve as partner managing director for four years. After that, I served as Executive Officer of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Managing Director of SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. From 2017 to June 2022, I will serve as Senior Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd., and from 2021 to June 2022, I will also serve as Senior Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. Registered Foreign Lawyer (New York Law)

  • Yasuko Kodama

    Yasuko Kodama

    Full-time Auditor/Certified Public Accountant

    In 2012, as a certified public accountant, engaged in audit work at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC for about 7 years. Established independently in 2019, engaged in consolidated financial settlement support for listed companies, IPO support, etc. In 2022, I joined AVILEN as a full-time auditor with the desire to be involved in the governance of a growing company.

  • Hiroyuki Yaji

    Hiroyuki Yaji

    Auditor/Certified Public Accountant

    Graduated from Waseda University School of Commerce. After 23 years of career experience at Chuo Audit Corporation (Chuo Aoyama Audit Corporation), I moved to Shin Nihon Audit Corporation (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC) in 2007. I am mainly in charge of supporting and auditing companies preparing for listing. I have been involved in 17 IPOs as a partner. I have also been involved in business development activities and have been in charge of many publications and seminar lecturers. After retiring from Ernst & Young ShinNihon in 2022, I became an advisor to Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation. Since 2023, I have been an AVILEN auditor.

  • Tsubasa Yamamoto

    Tsubasa Yamamoto

    Auditor/Lawyer

    Since becoming a lawyer, I have consistently worked on supporting startups' intellectual property strategies, and in March 2020, published "Startup's Intellectual Property Strategy". In the same month, I received an Encouragement Award from the Patent Office as a start-up IP expert. In 2022, I won first place in the Intellectual Property Division of Weekly Toyo Keizai's "Ranking of Lawyers Chosen by Legal Department Members". From 2023, I established the law firm amaneku and became the representative lawyer of the firm.