Primary Job Title Founder, President, and CEO Primary Organization Minkabu the Infonoid
Location Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male Also Known As 瓜生憲
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Born in 1974. Ken graduated from the Boston University School of Management. After NTT DOCOMO was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1998, he undertook IR operations as a founding member of the company’s IR team. From 2000, he was a senior analyst at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, primarily in entertainment, the media and the Internet, and won
top positions in many analyst rankings. After retiring from the analyst position in 2005, he primarily supported Investment Banking Division as an advisor to Goldman Sachs. Alongside this post, he became a project leader for the establishment of a disaster information society system at the Foundation for Multimedia Communications, an organization associated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) in Japan. He became a member of the secretariat of the Research Group for the Establishment of the Disaster Information Society System jointly with MIC, and participated in a broad range of initiatives for the establishment of the social system as a key member. He has been in his current position since the foundation of MINKABU THE INFONOID, Inc. (https://minkabu.co.jp/) in 2006. In 2007, he acquired patents in Japan as the sole inventor of “ oint Calculation Method, Forecast Evaluation System and Computer Program.” In 2012, he was selected for a Next-Generation High-Level IT Human Resources Model areer in the Next-Generation High-Level IT Human Resources Model Career Development lanning roject Report of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan.
