Corporate Leadership
Board of Directors
Noriaki Hirao
President, CEO & Founder
Hirao Noriaki was born in 1983. He has experience in three creations and one liquidation of companies in the entertainment, semiconductor, IoT, and cybersecurity fields...
Seishiro Tsuruho
Managing Director
He became the President of NTT Software Corp in 1997. From 2001 he served as XML Consortium Chairman at Information Processing Society of Japan. In 2003 he started working at Kochi University of Technology...
Masahide Kamachi
Outside Auditor
At PwC Tax Corporation, Masahide engaged in comprehensive accounting and tax consulting services for domestic owner companies, including business succession, M & A reorganization, capital policy, IPO support, corporate revitalization, consolidated accounting, consolidated tax payment, and overseas expansion support.
Core Members
Jaan Priisalu
Chief Scientist
Jaan Priisalu is a world-known authority in the security of infrastructure and information assets. He has more than 15 years of practical experience in...
Raul Allikivi
CRO
Raul Allikivi was born in Estonia in 1979. He graduated from Tartu University in 2002 completing his master's degree at Waseda University in 2005 and started working at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications...
Masakazu Ohtsuka
Executive Officer CTO
Ohtsuka has 15 years of extensive experience in system and business development. Since joining Planetway in 2017, he has supervised engineers both in Japan and...
Shinichi Fujita
Managing Executive Officer COO and CTO
As a director of Benesse Corporation’s IT department, he managed the development of digital education services. Before joining Benesse, he worked as a board of director and CTO of Evolable Asia Co., Ltd. in the establishment of a Vietnamese corporation and sales activities for offshore development.
Jeff Chamberlain
Executive Officer (Planetway Europe CEO)
More than 13 years experience in domestic sales and business development, specially industrial electrical infrastructure systems, factory automation, precision equipment, IoT RF and LPWA signal / sensor equipment (LoRaWAN Alliance). Established a Japanese corporation as representative director for a prominent German electric solutions manufacturer in 2013.
Takahiro Aoki
Executive Officer
He joined Planetway at April in 2019 , works for consulting sales and then became General Manager of Business Promotion Division.
Before joiing Planetway, he worked for various projects for all of industries as IT consultant, Strategic consultant, Sales, New Business Development.
Osamu Iwasawa
Executive Officer (Planetway Europe CIO)
Since joining Planetway at May in 2019, he worked as Director of Product Planning Dept, then assigned Officer for Planetway Japan and CIO for Planetway Europe.
Before joining Planetway, he worked for digitalization of the educational materials as a CDO (Chief Digital Officer) in Benesse Holdings, Inc. which is No1 Educational Company in Japan.
Advisory Board
Partners
Satomi Kiuchi
As a construction engineer in the civil engineering business department of a major construction company, Satomi has long been involved in practical design work and project management in in fields such as factory civil engineering, harbor engineering.
Taku Inoue
Taku Inoue graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Technology in 2007. He graduated the Science Education Program School of Law in the University of Tokyo in 2009. Inoue passed the national bar examination in 2010...
Godo Irukayama
Godo Irukayama developed an automatic stage lighting control system in 1982. In 1983, he joined a chemical company where he developed artificial organs at the company's research institute...
Tsukasa Makino
Born 1958 in Yokohama Tsukasa Graduated from Keio University with a degree in Economics (Department of Econometrics). In 1981 he joined Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. promoting digitalization of the company, and from 2014 to 2018, he concurrently served in three departments: Planning Department, Corporate Planning Department, and the Tokio Marine Research Institute.