Representative Director, Chairman, President and CEO

April 1988
Joined the Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)

May 1993
Received MBA from Harvard Business School

February 1996
President & Representative Director (currently Representative Partner) of Crimson Group, Inc. (currently Crimson Group, LLC.) (current position)

February 1997
Founder & President & Representative Director of the Company

February 2001
Chairman, President, & Representative Director of the Company (current position)

March 2004
Chief Executive Officer of the Company (current position)

April 2006
Chairman & Representative Director of Crimson Football Club, Inc. (currently Rakuten Vissel Kobe, Inc.) (current position)

February 2010
Representative Director of Japan e-business Association (currently Japan Association of New Economy) (current position)

October 2011
Chairman of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (current position)

August 2012
Chairman & Representative Director & team owner of Rakuten Baseball, Inc. (current position)

July 2016
Group President of Group Company Division of the Company (current position)

July 2017
Chairman & Representative Director of Rakuten Aspyrian Japan K.K. (currently Rakuten Medical K.K.) (current position)

February 2020
Director of AST & Science, LLC (current position)

March 2022
Representative Director & Chairman of Rakuten Mobile, Inc. (current position)

April 2022
Vice Chairman of the Board & Co-CEO of Rakuten Medical, Inc. (current position)

August 2023
Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Symphony, Inc. (current position)