SOCIALGOOD - Key Persons
As a member of the Amazon Japan management team during their major growth period, he led the expansion of several key businesses.
Naoki Yokoyama
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Former Managing Director at Nikko Securities Inc. (now SMBC Nikko Securities) and CEO of a SBI Group asset company. Served as a member of the Business Accounting Council, the Financial System Research Council, and the Commodity Exchange Council. He graduated from the University of Tokyo.
・Professor at the Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research. His research focuses on innovation. After a chance encounter with the founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, he became a Grameen special advisor in Japan. He provides advice about social entrepreneurship.
・He earned his PhD from GSAS at Harvard University.
A Japanese serial entrepreneur with 23 years of experience in the fintech field, he began his career at Mitsui & Co., one of the most massive global enterprises based in Japan. He then left to start his own fintech company which rose to the top under his leadership, gaining over $1B total in investment advisory contracts, the highest of any investment advisory firm in Japan for individual investors. He has also authored two publications about finance.
In 2018, he founded SocialGood, Inc. based on multiple inventions related to cryptocurrency.
He graduated from Tokyo University and completed the Stanford Executive Program.
As an engineer at IBM Japan, he was involved in large-scale global development and obtained six patents. As a data scientist at DeNA, he led the economical design and data analysis of well-known games. He graduated from the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University.