Jun Nakajima(CEO)

Jun Nakajima is the founder and CEO of Archetype. He has been deeply engaged in Internet businesses for years, designing business strategies and services for more than 100 projects. Previously, he served as COO at Inspire Corp. Before joining Inspire, he was an Internet business specialist at Dentsu Inc. Nakajima also serves as Director of Koozyt, targeting, Original, Archetype Communications, Datasection and kamado. He is Vice-President & Co-founder of Access Analysis Initiative and a mentor at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and NTT Communications Open Lab. He graduated Hitotsubashi University in 1989.

Osamu Higuchi(Director & Partner)

Osamu Higuchi is the Co-founder and Director of Archetype. He previously held positions at TEAC Corp., most recently serving as Managing Director of the company. Prior to that, he was Director of @IT Corp. (ITMedia). Also, he co-founded Infoseek Corp. He worked for Sony Corp. and then Lotus Corp. (IBM), supervising the marketing of Lotus Notes. Currently, Higuchi is Advisor of Six Apart, Director of targeting, glucose and Infoteria, and Auditor of ITmedia Corp. He graduated Kyushu University in 1985.

Hirotaka Fukuoka(Director&Partner)

Hirotaka Fukuoka has served as Director of Archetype since April 2009. Previously, he served as Director of SEPTENI CO.LTD and OPT Inc. He held positions at Ergo-Brains Inc., most recently serving as President&COO of the company. He also listed Ergo-Brains shares on NASDAQ JAPAN. He worked for Japan Life Design Systems. Prior to that, he worked for Mitsubishi Corp. and was engaged in Energy Business Group. Fukuoka also serves as Director of Unimedia and BrainPad. BrainPad went public in September 2011. He graduated Nagoya University in 1994.

Hiroyuki Fushitani (Non-executive Director)

Mr. Fushitani serves as a member of the Board of Directors. He is the founder and President of ORIGINAL Inc. In 2009, he launched Time Out Tokyo Inc., serving as CEO of the company. Previously, he served as President&CEO of Napster Japan Inc. Prior to that, he was President&CEO of Tower Records Japan Inc. He also founded NMNL LTD and served as President&CEO of the company. While working at Tower Records Japan, Mr. Fushitani launched the very first EC site in Japanese music business. He graduated Kansai Gaidai University in 1991.

Toshio Iwasaki (Non-executive Director)

Toshio Iwasaki has been a non-executive director of Archetype since September 2010. Currently, he is also outside director at Anicom Holdings and CellFree Sciences. Previously, he worked for the Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd. and was appointed as Senior Managing Director at Diamond Capital, a venture capital invested by the Mitsubishi group, in 1999. He has a deep insight into incubation since then. He was Outside Director at IC-Vec (England), Quark Biotech (Israel) and CellFree Sciences (Japan). He was graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1970.

Tatsuhiko Kanno (Operating Officer)

Tatsuhiko Kanno has been an Operating Officer of Archetype since November 2010. Previously, he served as CEO at Naked Technology Inc. Before joining Naked Technology, he was a business development specialist at Recruit CO.,LTD, being in charge of the free magazine "R25". He was Director of Inspire Corp. Prior to that, he worked for Dentsu Inc. and was engaged in internet ad business. He graduated from Waseda University in 1993.