TEAM

Pascal Hamonic

Co-founder and CEO

 

Born and raised in France. After graduating from one of the Grandes Ecoles, ENSEA in 2003, enrolled at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science (Furui Lab) and got a Master of Science in 2006,  in speech recognition and natural language processing. Upon graduation, joined a British financial securities firm for a few months. Left in 2007 and co-founded Descartes Search, LLC with his fraternal twin brother, Julien. In 2009, he co-founded again with his brother a venture support technical consulting firm, BunkerSofa, LLC.

 

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Jim Maricondo

Partner

 

Jim focuses on international tech recruiting & blockchain/emerging tech business development and evangelism, especially US-Japan. At ConsenSys, he created and executed plans for the Tokyo office, sourced opportunities and partnerships with Japanese and US enterprises, evangelized Ethereum and decentralization, and participated in the due diligence team for the in-house venture capital investment platform, Coven. Previously, he also served as VP of Strategic Alliances at ISI-Dentsu, the IT systems integrator group company of Dentsu, and worked in business development for LiDAR sensors used in autonomous vehicles.

BSCS and MSCS degrees from Stanford University.

 

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Takako Endo

Director

 
Experienced in consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
Business acceleration. New business development, innovation support.
Expertise: retail, branding, food, agricultural products, marketing, SNS marketing.
 

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Mitsuhiko Iikura

Marketing partner

 

In charge of marketing and PR.
Chief editor of our own media, HRmedia (in Japanese).
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Julien Yuki Hamonic

Co-founder

 

Born and raised in France. After graduating from one of the Grandes Ecoles, ENSEA in 2003, enrolled at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science (Furui Lab) and got a Master of Science in 2006,  in AI and natural language processing. 

Upon graduation in 2006, joined a leading French electrical company and was in charge of the sales of ultrasonic sensors as a sales engineer. Left in 2007 and co-founded Descartes Search, LLC, with his fraternal twin brother, Pascal. In 2009, he co-founded again with his brother a venture support technical consulting firm, BunkerSofa, LLC.

Very sadly, he passed away from this world in November 2019 but he is always in our hearts and minds, and overseeing the operations of the company in a different way.

 

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