Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Osaka University

Founder of Feelyou

Tokyo, Japan

COSMOS Global Network

Strategic Advisor

We have two products currently1) Feelyou, mood trackingSharing your daily mood for boosting your well-beingWelcome to Feelyou: a social mood tracker with sharing and connecting people who care of each other. Activities for well-being while contributing social issues directly.2) bajjiOur product named bajji is SNS that uses blockchain technology to visualize trusting relationships. Through bajji, users can record "encounter with people" and "trust for others" in blockchain. Based on bajji original algorithm, active people can get reward from bajji community. bajji will be released next month. **bajji is not related cryptocurrency, token, ICO and STO. Not any speculative product.

bajji, Inc.

Founder and CEO

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WAVE Co-working space in Bali

Contributor

Noritaka is also an associate professor at Business Breakthrough University. The university is full-online education and is authorized by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, "MEXT". Since most of the students are entrepreneur in the univ., one can see it is very unique and exciting place. Its president is Ken'ichi Ohmae who is economist guru.He is now teaching two classed which are "IT and management" and "Introduction to Social business" and "Blockchain business strategies"

Business Breakthrough University

Associate Professor / 准教授

LastRoots provide cryptocurrency called c0ban is the world’s first crypto currency tied up with entertainment and advertisement services from the beginning. Its application will be released on App store and Google play on January 2017. It aims at destruction and creation of advertisement market by taking advantage of micro payment feature of blockchain. The paper describes initial introduction of c0ban, its business model and update information from version 0.12 released on September 2016 [1]. Regarding to blockchain, Bitcoin technologies are applied on c0ban because of its stable performance. Enhancement has been done to fit c0ban business model.LastRoots succeeded to fundraise 6 million USD on crowdfunding (ICO:initial coin offering) from July 2016 to July 2017.The market cap of c0ban is around USD 200 million to 300 million which is ranked #50 in the world.c0ban is the following first case- the first ICO in Japan (July 2016)- the first product released from Japan ICO ( Dec 2016)- the first exchange coin from Japan ICO (Mar 2017)- the no.1 market cap coin from Japan ICO (around ranked #50 to 60).LastRoots received IBM blue hub awards at Fintech Summit 2016 from 700 candidates start-ups from the world. The summit was organized by FSA (Financial Service Agency, Japan government) and Nikkei Inc.

LastRoots Co., Ltd

Founder

HOKKAIDO. It is the most beautiful and delicious place in the world. Especially, Tokachi area, south of Hokkaido is the greatest place to producing variety of food.Plot producing to importing such great food to Singapore. Noritaka is now taking action to deliver such delicious and amazing food for people in Singapore.

Plot Asia and Pasific

Managing Director

Butahage has more than 80 years history in Hokkaido, Japan. They provide a traditional pork rice bowl. In 2015, they will open new shop in Singapore by joint venture with Singapore major F&B company. Noritaka has supported to enter Singapore market and now work as director.

Butahage Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Director

Butahage is a restaurant from Hokkaido. They serve authentic grilled pork rice bowl. It is the first outlet outside Japan. One of the first project comes out from CrowdSekai services. The restaurant is JV between Butahage Japan and Fish&co. Before starting, Noritaka main role was negotiation of JV, designing shops, project management. After starting shops, his role is business development, accountant, HR, promotion, and process stantardization.

Butahage Singapore

One of the biggest crowdsourcing services for companies who are trying to expand business to outside of Japan. Simultaneously, providing best match via crowdsourcing to non-Japanese companies who are trying to enter Japan market.

CrowdSekai

2nd Start-upHeadquartered in Singapore, Yourwifi Pte. Ltd. has been at the forefront of providing innovative wireless communications services for travelers abroad under XCom Global brand. Since demands for travelers abroad to stay connected increase with the expansion of smartphones penetration, Yourwifi focuses on meeting such customers’ demand across Asia.Since he sees such future trends, he decided to set up Yourwifi. He will provide ideal environment of data connection to travelers in Asia.Yourwifi was ranked #292 of all Asia pacific Technology fast 500 from Deloitte. Yourwifi was also ranked no.3 position of all Singapore <a href="http://start-ups.https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Technology-Media-Telecommunications/2017-tech-fast500-apac-ranking-report.pdf">start-ups.https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Technology-Media-Telecommunications/2017-tech-fast500-apac-ranking-report.pdf</a>

Yourwifi Pte. Ltd.

Chairman

He is currently providing advisory to Resinaa. Resinaa is Singapore-based company and provides mobile marketing especially retail shops like fashion, food, etc.

Resinaa Pte Ltd

Advisory

1st start-upNoritaka is leading five project at Diixi currently. One of projects is educating youth generation for getting survival skill anywhere in the world. He is trying to make one million such youth in 20 years.Second project is setting up Ohagi cafe. Ohagi is one of the most popular traditional sweets which are made of rice cake and beans.One can say that Japanese food is very healthy. But few people realize that sweets of Japanese food is healthy as well. He is trying to export such great features of Japanese sweet to the world now.

Diixi Pte.Ltd.

Noritaka is in charge of the following four missions. Firstly, setting up GREE Singapore, Secondly setting up alliance with key players in each country of Asia, covering whole Asia other than China, Korea, and Japan. Currently, he is targeting 9 countries, including Asean, India, AUZ. Thirdly, setting up development studio here in APAC. Any options like set up from scratch and acquiring developers is open. Lastly, exploring developers who create games, publish them to GREE's platform. Consultation services for such developers are given by him.He lead a project to set up exclusive alliance with SingTel. He succeeded it on November 2012 as shown on the below <a href="http://links.http://www.techinasia.com/gree-partners-singtel-mobile-games-promotion-billing-singapore/http://www.techinasia.com/escaping-apple-google-gree-games-html5/">links.http://www.techinasia.com/gree-partners-singtel-mobile-games-promotion-billing-singapore/http://www.techinasia.com/escaping-apple-google-gree-games-html5/</a>

GREE Singapore

VP, Business Development Department

Noritaka is in charge of developing and executing business development strategy of GREE in the APAC and India. He is covering whole Asia market other than China, Korea and Japan.

GREE, Inc.

Head of APAC/India business development

Gaia village project in India.This project provide not only Solar Lantern but also various electric appliance at non-electrification villages.He conducted market survey and communication with NGOs who supporting the project from India.

NPO Gaia Initiative

Producer

This committee is promoting a project to donate children in Africa by one million people's 100JPY donation.He organized donation event which was held in Bloomfontein, South Affica on 13rd June, 2010. The date is exact one day before Japanese national team match against Cameroon.On the donation events, more than 800 primary school students came and Freestate governor, City chief of Bloomfonein, and Ambassador of South Africa.He succeeded 4 million donation from individuals and companies to provide soccer balls, pens, and notebook etc.

CKSC

Chief of Global Strategic Unit

Noritaka was a senior Consultant at Nomura Research Institute, which is the biggest management consulting firm in Japan. He had 9 years of management consulting experience. His specialities of industries are mobile communication, web business, system integrator, home appliance, electronics, and peripherals.Thema of expertises are executing new business, expanding business to the world, business management, executing structural reform, designing organization, and design thinking.In terms of expanding business to the world, he covers not only Asia, including China, Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thai, Philippines, but also other region, US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Africa.He has experience in capital investment and M&A deals from US$1 million to US$20 billion inside Japan as well as cross over. Both buy and sell side and fairness opinion are in his career.He has specialized knowledge from wealthier categories to base of the economic pyramid. He published the book "BOP(base of the economic pyramid), how to tackle this huge market" from Nikkei publishing Inc., on January 2011.In terms of Design thinking, he produced the event of Design thinking for a transformation of a society, called "ITと新社会デザインフォーラム (Design forum for IT and new society)" (ref. <a href="http://www.shin-shakai.com/">http://www.shin-shakai.com/</a>) He was chief producer and designer till June, 2011.

NOMURA Research Institute

Senior consultant/ 上級コンサルタント

Noritaka is leading computer engineering class at Setsunan university as an Assistant professor for two years.

Noritaka Kobayashi

Noritaka Kobayashi