Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business

Georgia Southwestern State University

Meiji University

President of Amon Corporation specializing in cross-border strategic alliance and market entry in Japan

Amon Corporation is helping ventures and conglomerates in the Southeast Asia to develop successful strategic business alliances and capital tie-up with Japanese partners, supporting their corporate goals for growth in their home grounds and even ambitions to penetrate Japan market. Amon Corporation has sound networks with venture capitals, digital marketing and online advertising agencies and private education business in Japan.

-Rendered both corporate finance advisory service onto transfer of stocks, joint venture establishment, private placement and acquisition at a cross-border basis for Japanese companies and sales/marketing agent service to find out local importers or franchisees for Japanese companies in animation, education(online English & ESL school), food & beverage service, cosmetics, medical supply, auto aftermarket and system integration industry which aim to enter into Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and India. 
-Provided various services of sales/marketing agent, fund raising or market-entry support for non-Japanese companies which plan to find out Japanese distributors or importers or raise funds from Japanese strategic and financial investors. 
-Sold booths and sponsorship programs of cosmetics, auto aftermarket and medical equipment  exhibitions held in the Southeast Asia to Japanese companies by utilizing Internet-based marketing as well as established approach such as postal mails, cold calls and direct meetings.

Amon Corporation

President

m-up, Inc. is one of leading entertainment and music content providers, distributing ringtunes, ringback tones, full track music, decoration mails of mobile downloads as well as operator of paid-fan club sites for famous artists and actors with predominant Internet service providers and carriers in Internet and mobile phone network, accordingly. In addition, m-up, Inc. runs Internet-and mobile-based e-commerce business through its various sites targeting youngsters to sell fashion brands, accessories of artists, DVDs and Blu-rays. m-up, Inc. was listed in Mothers (market of the high-growth and emerging stocks) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in March, 2012.

-Had responsibility to be provision of oversight on management of that company after an initial public offering at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2012. 
-Established corporate information flow in order to conduct analysis onto monthly financial closing based upon difference between budgeting and actual sales & expenditure and reported the analysis to the board of meeting prior to the initial public offering. 
-Introduced in-house corporate regulations & manuals, corporate governance system including the J-Sox rule which is the requirements for public company in Japan and similar to Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 302 and Section 404 in the United States to employees and the company, accordingly.

m-up, Inc.

External Director

RF Co, Ltd. is a broadcasting equipment and medical device manufacturer of small wireless CCD cameras combining radio frequency technology with a digital CCD imaging sensor in Nagano, Japan.

-Organized a board of meeting every month and general & special shareholder meeting while preparing agenda for those meetings to meet objectives to be listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
-Set up a Tokyo office near JR Tokyo Station equipped with a showroom targeting to dentists and veterinarians who live in Tokyo or frequently visit Tokyo for attending academic conferences and alumni reunion.

RF Co, Ltd.

Corporate & Business Development Manager

Aplix Corporation is an embedded software developer for mobile phones in Tokyo, Japan. The embedded software works as middle ware and enables Java-based applications such as game to    work onto various operating systems of different mobile phone manufacture smoothly. Aplix Corporation was listed in Mothers (market of the high-growth and emerging stocks) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2003. Effective from April 1st, 2011, "Aplix Corporation" is a subsidiary of a holding company Aplix IP Holdings Corporation.

-Wrote prospectus and other applications to take both an underwriting examination for the initial public offering and an listing examination of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
-Finalized private placements while negotiating stock price and number of shares issued with new and existing financial investors. 
-Communicated sell-side analysts, fund managers and individual investors daily via meetings or callings to contribute to the company's stock achieving fair valuation and increase trading volume  after the initial public offering in 2003.

Aplix Corporation

Manager of Finance

Interlink Corporation is an independent and boutique M&A advisory firm. Interlink Corporation assists owners of closely-held corporations to design a successful exit plan, find candidates of buyers, evaluate corporate value and close the deal.

-Identified both a potential seller and a prospective buyers in wholesaler industry of architectural products and supported them to close a stock acquisition agreement and execute transaction of seller’s ownership to buyer.

Interlink Corporation

M&A Analyst

Hasegawa Research Institute, Inc. was a holding company which invested in and manages a food manufacturing company, a Japanese style pub "Izakaya" operator, an octopus ball "Takoyaki" fast food fast operator and nursery homes.

-Implemented investor-relation activities for both a chilled food manufacture KB Co., Ltd. (public company) and a Japanese-style pub operator Kitanokazoku Co., Ltd. (public company) under that holding company : small meeting preparation, annual report writing and correspondence between analysts and management of those companies.
-Analyzed acquisition’s offerings proposed by outside M&A advisers and reported the results of assigned due diligence to CEO of KB Co., Ltd.

Hasegawa Research Institute, Inc.

Manager of Group Business Development

Fuji-Keizai Co., Ltd. is one of leading, full-service marketing research and consulting firms in Japan. It provides one-stop solutions to meet various market intelligence needs and requirements through self-sponsored research studies, business intelligence library, periodicals and single-client customized market research projects as well as comprehensive business consulting utilizing market entry, new business development, competitive analysis.

-Conducted a feasibility study for a Japanese personal computer manufacture to establish an international procurement offices in Taiwan while benchmarking competitors' procurement strategies. Presented a new purchasing policy and sharpened procurement functions for introducing low-price PCs to domestic market and recommended focusing on lap-top PC business with a break-even-point analysis. etc

Noboru Yoshifuji