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Drove business development for North American startups and scale-ups seeking expansion into Asia. Specialized in emerging tech sectors including Fintech, AI, Cybersecurity, and Web3. Conducted 200+ strategic meetings to assess readiness and support smooth market entry into Asia. Bridged North American founders and Asian stakeholders with insights on local business, markets, and regulations. Served as both connector and strategic advisor, helping refine expansion plans and secure partners, investors, and customers.

Managed global sales of Digital Payment Solutions & Tokenization solutions to clients in North America, Southeast Asia, Middle East & Australia. Created go to Market & business development plans ensuring excellent Japanese and English communications fintech solutions accountable for Term Sheet, deeply technical RFQs, RFPs and contracts with MNCS & local companies. My role as a bilingual member of cross functional teams was essential in successfully managing technical integration, deployment & maintenance of customers, including System Integrators, Visa, Mastercard, JCB, NAPAS. Strong written & verbal communication & relationships with C-Suite of both parties drove revenue & strong relationships with all parties. Integral member of the team that enabled multiple multi-million dollar investments in to Sequent by a major Japanese MNC.

Managed the multimillion investment by a Japanese company in a fintech mobile payment wallet tailored to Japanese largest Bank’s mobile wallet in conjunction with MC, Visa and JCB. Communication among US tech company, the Japanese investor & other parties used my bilingual communication across all levels of the parties on detailed technology & business operations.

Selected by TIS investment group to relocate to Silicon Valley to identify emerging technology opportunities. Researched & analyzed local tech companies that would have strategic value TIS Executive Management in conjunction with market analysis of the latest technology trends in the U.S. Introduced the potential PoC / alliance candidates of U.S. companies to potential TIS customers. Integral to relationship management between Japanese companies and U.S. companies.

As part of the TIS investment team, launched & led the first fintech mobile wallet Service using Tokenization in Japan cooperating with U.S. Startup as the project leader. Negotiated to closure the alliance agreements/reseller agreements between TIS & US companies. Accountable for formulating & executing business plans, investment ROI & revenue growth associated with the fintech product as Project leader.

Accountable for research & formulation of the criteria of governance organization evaluation & budget for TIS HQ & subsidiaries in Japan & abroad, closely working with C Suite including the CEO & Chairman. Executed PDCA cycle of the above criteria & budget.