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Before striking out on his own in 2011, Shintaro Hara worked as an executive in several system development companies, where he was engaged in new business development and management of the development department. He did contract development work for PaaS utilization projects which Google joined as a technical adviser, as well as for of online services making use of IaaS and the like, for numerous Japanese clients and public institutions. He believes that the active use of advanced technology is key to the evolution of society and the self-actualization of engineers, and has also done extensive work introducing machine learning, natural language and image processing, and geographic information systems. He has been an engineer for over 15 years. He was the technical supervisor of the Japanese-language version of The Definitive Guide to Plone. As he was pondering the problem of the increasing difficulty of cloud computing provision and exploring ways to distribute open designs, Yuki Ikeda—who had been quick to recognize the potential of the blockchain—reached out to Hara, who realized that they should join forces to work on their ideas. They brought in Toshihisa Nakamizu, who excels at project implementation, and began work on reindeer.

Yuki Ikeda is a graduate of the University of Tokyo. While in university, he majored in the study of material design and used data science, including databases of physical properties, first-principle calculations, and neural networks, to study what would be the strongest metallic compositions for use in nuclear reactors. He grew aware of the potential of open access and open data as public goods. In 2011, he joined Recruit Co., Ltd., where he was first an engineer on, then responsible for development direction of projects such as hotpepperBeauty, car sensors, and Rikunabi NEXT. Independently of this work, he also founded an offshore development company in Vietnam. Thinking that he could use the blockchain to visualize the value of information such as human knowledge and wisdom, create new economic spheres, and solve social problems, he reached out to Hara and started this project.

After graduating from university, Toshihisa Nakamizu worked on large-scale projects at a software company in the role of systems engineer. He also did project management at KAYAC Inc. He gained experience on many projects, most of them related to online promotion for Japanese clients. After he left KAYAC Inc., he started COMPASS Co., Ltd. 'I want to make small inconveniences more convenient, even just a little.' That was Nakamizu’s motivation for developing apps to make all kinds of things in life a bit more convenient, from restaurants and kindergartens to retirement homes and the neighborhood greengrocer. At the same time, he joined LIG to help with team building. He was in charge of bringing the production team together via team building and organization building. After two years with LIG, he returned to his company and worked as project manager on a variety of small and large projects.

After dropping out of Waseda University, Shogo Tsuruda became a designer at a company that mainly engaged in creating and operating e-commerce sites. He then moved on to IMJ Corporation, where he created numerous websites for domestic clients. In 2016, he struck out on his own and established the LCC Staraxia. He worked as a web and UI designer for a wide variety of clients, from domestic clients to startups.

Graduate, Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics
Attorney at law, Grow-will International Law Firm
Director, Mirai Challenge, Inc.
CEO, SAMURAI INNOVATION PTE. Ltd. (Singaporean corporation)
During his university years he gained experience in starting up systems development and web service businesses, eventually putting those skills to use in his work as a lawyer specializing in the IT industry. He is one of the few Japanese lawyers well-versed in virtual currency laws.

CMO at Bient Technologies and have worked with over 75 ICO's, consulted them and holds the position of Marketing Advisor in several of these projects. Every customer should be provide with autonomy of valuable choice and I try to ensure value for all my clients. With the experience of working with many clients, he aspire to change the ideology that exists towards sales. A person with entrepreneurial skill set, he is looking forward to evolve various business processes.