Leadership

Founded a game development company while studying at Kyoto University and has since built several businesses in entertainment and digital content. Having seen as a game creator how creators struggle with high fees, he founded Wick, Corp. in 2024 to change that.

He launched Wick, a social-media-integrated platform with no sales commission and around 1.5 million users, and leads the company as Representative Director and CEO. He also developed the patented “mini-window ad”, which shows advertisements while people use other apps and lets them spend the points they earn on manga and on supporting their favorite creators.

In 2026, meeting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus led him into social business. At Grameen Wick he oversees the business as CEO and, in partnership with the Grameen Group, works to turn corporate advertising money into a force that supports people’s food, learning and healthcare, aiming for a society in which the circumstances you are born into do not determine your future.

Spent about 25 years in global finance and asset management at J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and other firms before becoming independent in 2022. She currently serves as a corporate strategy adviser, as a member of government committees including the Financial Services Agency’s Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, and as an outside director of several companies.

As Representative Director of a non-profit organization, the Initiative for Future Creation through Science and Finance, she takes on the challenge of updating society by putting research knowledge into practice and creating economic and social value. Her publications include Connecting Sustainable Corporate Management and Sustainable Finance (World Scientific, 2026).

At Grameen Wick, as COO she is mainly responsible for the governance framework, stakeholder relations, business strategy formulation and impact management. Drawing on her experience as an institutional investor and executive and her global perspective, she aims to build a society in which everyone’s potential can grow, through social business in Bangladesh.

Executive Director of the Yunus Centre. From 2024 to 2026 she served as Principal Coordinator for SDG Affairs at the Chief Adviser’s Office of Bangladesh. Managing Director of Grameen Healthcare Trust and a director of several Grameen companies. A graduate of the London School of Economics.

Holds a PhD from Tohoku University. Designed next-generation communications at the former Bell Labs and NTT. Associate Professor at Kyushu University and founder and CTO of SocialTech Japan. Recipient of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award.

Managing Director of Grameen Communications, specializing in technology strategy and business development. Former Country Manager of Microsoft for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.