Team

Koji Nakano
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Hired by TOTO LTD., Koji Nakano was assigned to be Sales and Marketing Supervisor at TOTO USA Inc. and worked for some companies in North and Central America including ones in New York City and Atlanta Headquarters. With his experience as the Manager of International Operations, he became CEO of TOTO Europe GmbH. In 2014 Nakano left the company and established OQTA.

Kiyohisa Takahashi
Chief Philosophy Officer & Co-Founder
Kiyohisa Takahashi graduated from Nihon University College of Art with a bachelor’s degree in cinema studies. At the age of 29, he founded a firm which edited live broadcast of sports. At the same time, he majored in media studies at the Graduate School of Waseda University and was awarded a Waseda Student Culture Award. Takahashi joined OQTA in 2015.

Masaru Yamamoto
Chief Software Creator
Masaru Yamamoto graduated from Nihon University with a major in industrial technology. After working for an independent software company, he was assigned to be the Director of Now Village Ltd. His work ranged from development and introduction to management of the construction of web system. He joined OQTA in 2015.

Makoto Kawakami
Chief Technology Officer
Makoto Kawakami joined in the construction of MARS 305 provided by JR Group. After that, he worked as a co-founder of Mint Co., Ltd. and Now Village Ltd., and then, he became a board member of the companies. Whether it is a language or a platform, he has a perfect command of computer languages as if they were his native tongues. He joined OQTA in 2015.

Kotobuki Naka
General Manager & Market Development
After she served as a manager of several beauty salons, Naka became a senior leader at a subsidiary of Lawson Group called Best Practice, Inc., where she served as a researcher and analysist. She studied design in general and planning at Tokyo Designplex Institute. She joined OQTA in 2015.

Motoe Haller
Chief Operating Officer
Motoe Haller holds a doctor’s degree in international development from Nagoya University. She was responsible for marketing and branding strategy and PR when she was working at Dentsu Research Inc., TOTO USA Inc., and InSpec Group. Haller is currently responsible for establishing a US headquarters of OQTA.Inc.

Yoshihiro Suwa
Outside Directors
After graduating from Kyoto University with a major in law, Yoshihiro Suwa joined Roland Berger Ltd. and served as a consultant in Japan and Europe. He has worked in strategies of growth, overseas business, marketing, and market penetration (especially to developing companies) for a wide variety of clients. He is currently residing in Jakarta.

Keita Mitsuhashi
Creative Director Design & Technology
Keita Mitsuhashi is currently enrolled in the University of Tokyo, where he majors in engineering. Given business fund by Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., he built a mobile application called “dood” as a director and engineer. After that, with his experiences of serving as an engineer and digital creator for several companies, he founded Queue Inc. He joined OQTA in 2016.

Naoto Shibata
Creative Director Design & Technology
Naoto Shibata is currently enrolled in the University of Tokyo with a major in engineering, where his study is focused on biorobotics and machine learning. He served as a collaborative researcher in Yutaka Matsuo’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo, where he conducted a study on predictive models of Facebook advertisement conversions. After serving as an engineer and data scientist for several companies including building “dood” with Mitsuhashi as an engineer, he founded Queue Inc. He joined OQTA in 2016.

Ren Tsukamoto
Advisor
After graduating from the technical college, Ren Tsukamoto joined Hitachi, Ltd.
After retiring, He entered the University of Tokyo.
Entrepreneurship in Asian countries while studying abroad.
After that, also advanced to the Middle East · Balkans.
Also, as a social activity, public utility companies are also conducting public utilities business. He joined OQTA in 2016.
After retiring, He entered the University of Tokyo.
Entrepreneurship in Asian countries while studying abroad.
After that, also advanced to the Middle East · Balkans.
Also, as a social activity, public utility companies are also conducting public utilities business. He joined OQTA in 2016.
Profile
- Company
- OQTA, Inc.
- Establised
- April 10,2015
- Head office
- BellMaison 1F, 1-14-7, MinamiAoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062 Japan
Google Map - Capital
- 37,900,000 yen
- President
- Koji Nakano
- Employees
- 9
- History
- April,2015 Established START360.inc.
September, 2015 Moved a head office to Yoyogi.
December, 2015 Released AR santa (for iOS & Android).
July, 2016 Registered a US subsidiary of OQTA Inc. in the State of Delaware.
July, 2016 Succeeded in developing a prototype of OQTA.
August, 2016 Applied for an international patent under PCT. Reference number: 5334-4021
September, 2016 Released HANABEE (for iOS & Android).
September, 2016 Changed the company name into OQTA, Inc.
October, 2016 Launched NepalProject
December, 2016 Applied for a trademark and logo