AMATEN
Amaten will lead the application of blockchain technology to the gift card industry and develop a self-sustaining blockchain based ecosystem for tokenized gift cards.
Amaten is currently the leading Japanese secondary marketplace for gift cards.
Amaten is committed to providing liquidity to this traditionally illiquid market.
Amaten has since then generated incredible results with an exceptionally great service for all participants in the Japanese gift card market.
Amaten will disrupt the existing gift card industry and force the current paradigm into redundancy.
The Amaten Team combines a passion for information technology expertise; a proven record in the Japanese market , business development, marketing and finance.
Chairman
Very motivated IT entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
Tom, at the age of 20 during the early days of the Japanese IT and Internet, founded one of the first mobile content provider startup in Japan in 1996.
Again in 2007, with Mizuho Capital as an investor, Tom founded the first photo sharing content startup in Japan, which was later acquired by Jangle Corp.
A couple of years later, in 2010 joined IT VC firm ‘Net Age’ as managing partner.
Finally, started the Amaten exchange in 2012.
Chief Executive Officer
Certified public accountant and licensed tax accountant.
Joined Asahi auditing firm in 1999.
Started own business after becoming a certified public accountant.
Head of beyond General Accounting Office which has business with more than 400 companies in Japan and abroad, a senior partner of Saiwa Audit LLC, CEO of Henri & M.C, a solution company, CEO of amaten inc., a business company, and outside director of more than 30 client companies.
Lecturer at MOT since April 2011.
Has been noted for business scheme development to maximize clients' needs as a specialist, a consultant, an entrepreneur, and a businessperson.
Chief Operating Officer
Graduated from Teikyo University in 2001 with a major in Science and Engineering, as a Programmer.
Joined an Technology component manufacturer company where he was responsible for verifying the operation of semiconductor using EDA tools.
Kazuyoshi developed and designed the automated flow for testing and quality verification.
Later in 2007, he joined and IT company as a senior Programmer and developer.
He oversaw business development content, search services, picture sharing services, animation, and also social games.
Head hunted to join Amaten in 2014, he was assigned to be the Chief Operation Officer.
Kazuyoshi drove the rapid atomization of the exchange as well as the development of the proprietary plasorm.
He was promoted to Managing Director at the end of 2016.
Chief Marketing Officer
After graduating from school in the United States, Minoru joined IT venture firm SEO where he was assigned to assist on marketing and website development and affiliate business in 2008.
Minoru then joined a project for giant telecommunication firm Softbank in 2013 and worked to maximize their revenue per advertising campaign and develop new service promotions.
Head hunted by Tom, he eventually joined Amaten in 2015 as the Chief Marketing officer, taking care of all marketing assignments and customer service.
Minoru played an important role in the tremendous growth of the business by multiplying the number of users, product offerings, and improving Amaten service and website organization.
Global Manager
A1er Graduating with a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the US, Nasser established in 2010 a distribution food commodity within his family Group in the MENA region.
He increased the selection of products as well gegng rid of nonperforming product lines.
Took over in 2013 the commercial real-estate side of the business and restructured it to beXer perform.
Having a big passion for Japan and seeing a big potential.
He le1 the Family business to start consulting financial firm in 2015, to beXer bridge the gap between Dubai (the middle east) and Japan.
At Tom’s request in 2017, he joined to lead the development of the whole Amaten future group.
Nasser speaks French, Arabic, English and Japanese fluently.
China Area Manager
Lucas is a Global Communications Expert with experience leading corporate communications for multinational corporations in Greater China regions, UAE and UK..
He was the global branding and PR manager for Okex, the second largest crypto exchange in China.
He is focused on driving positive visibility and results for brands, people and products.
Lucas has also an incredible proven track record serving global ICT and telecom companies (Huawei Technologies) and tier one mainstream Chinese mass media (CCTV–Hubei TV & Radio).
Lucas used incredible creativity, relationships, and team work to create memorable, award-winning communications programs internationally.
Chief Technology Officer - AIRS
Earlier Upon graduation in 2000, Masakuni established a retail system development and e-commerce consulting solution business.
Seeing the business grow rapidly he established Airs in 2003 as a software programming and development service provider.
In 2006, he developed and released the very popular Blog search service "TagClick”.
The search engine was later in 2008 sold to large digital marketing provider Irep Co.
In 2014, he was assigned as chief engineer project manager for the development of the proprietary software of the Amaten Exchange.
Masakuni and his team were able to develop a very efficient and automatic matching platform specific to Gift cards that is able to handle thousands of transactions a day and unique APIs that connect to the 7 major Japanese banks.
In parallel, Airs grew to be a web so1ware provider for major Japanese blog services.
It also specializes in SaaS system for e-commerce business, iPad application for musical instrument, and photo sharing apps.
Senior Developer - AIRS
Yusuke was an engineer at the Japanese Self-defense Force: Central Air Force command until the age of 25, when he then embarked to work as a freelance so1ware developer.
He developed different so1wares for clients using Sound Authorizing Tools, CAD, CAM so1ware development, and FPD inspection apparatus so1ware.
In 2006, he was assigned to be the project manager for the development and implementation for optimization of engine vehicle design using AutoCAD plugin applications.
Yusuke joined AIRS in 2009, and has since been specialized in the development of SaaS Web system for e-commerce, Android or apple iOS apps, prevention and disaster information system, and EC Social network affiliate apps.
In 2015, he was assigned as the lead engineer and project manager for the Amaten digital exchange.
Yusuke is currently working on TCP/UDP Sockets, WebSocket and mDNS developments.
Chief Technology Officer - Tokyo Gateway
Ken is a so1ware engineer developer that is also a best seller author in Japan.
He wrote several books on the subject of crypto currency and Ripple’s XRP.
He was number one on Amazon’s list for 12 weeks in a row.
He is nicknamed “Mr. Ripple” for being the first Japanese that represented and promoted XRP in Japan.
He also manages 7 full XRP matching servers.
Ken worked for the Softbank Group before segng up his own so1ware developing firm.
In 2014, he launched the first Japanese multi crypto currency exchange, which was the second exchange ever launched in Japan.
Ken has also developed its own niche Wallet specific technology that has over 40 000 users in Japan.
Ken also specializes in smart contract development, smartphone OS user interface, exchange plasorm matching engines, electronic payment encryption, and terminal authentication systems.
He has been chosen to be Amaten’s main technology partner for the development of Amaten’s blockchain’s protocol and the gi1 card’s exchange plasorm.
Engineer Project Manager - Tokyo Gateway
Hitoshi has been programming since the age of 3, when his father gave him his first Casio board computer.
In junior high school, a1er learning coding on his own, he developed his own e-learning project.
Later, he graduated from the University with a Major in control system engineering for automated robots.
Hitoshi worked for a robotic manufacturer firm and then later on joined another IT firm he developed social online multiplayer games.
He was head hunted by Ken to join Tokyo Gateway in 2015.
Since, Hitoshi has already developed several blockchain projects, in addition to plasorm matching engines and smart contracts.
He has also been chosen by the local government of Tokyo to help to create “neighborhood” local crypto currencies to promote local cities.
COO of aelf blockchain
Zhuling Chen is the COO of aelf blockchain, which they have been pushing technological innovation in blockchain space since 2017.
Prior to aelf, he has spent years as an consultant in financial services and TMT to government and large organisations across Asia.
He holds a Master in Engineering from MIT.
Alphabit Fund
Liam is one of the largest individual and corporate traders of Cryptocurrencies in Europe and the Middle East.
A certified investment manager in the UK, he established one of the world’s first regulated Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds in 2016.
As founder and CEO of Alphabit Limited, Liam now advises a number of funds, family offices and ground-breaking Blockchain enterprise.
CGS group
Jason is an internet entrepreneur , business executive , cryptocurrency enthusiast, and asset manager and formerly a high school teacher.
He also the co-creator of the cryptocurrency FLASH.
Currently he is a Managing Partner at CGS Group.
Prior to that Jason was Managing Director at Binary Financial and Assistant Fund Manager & Head of Game Assets at Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.
As a serial cryptocurrency & blockchain technology investor since 2010, Jason invested on behalf of world-class crypto hedge funds in projects like Metalpay and Aelf, generating over 10x-50x ROI during a 2 year plus career involved in cryptocurrencies & blockchain technology investments.
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