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Long Beach, Ca, Us

Carson, Ca, Us

Tippsy launched in November 2019 and quickly became the largest online retailer for Japanese SAKE in US, rebuilding the culture and community around this foreign alcohol drink to make it a fun and casual experience for everyone in the US, providing 200+ products for under-served consumers along with a subscription sake box for new drinkers to cultivate a market. -Identified an untapped market and designed a business based on consumer survey-Built a strong team of professionals with marketing, creative, operations expertise-Grew revenue 5x in 2019 and 6x in 2020-Closed Pre-seed and Seed financial rounds

San Francisco, California, Us

A Technology startup based in Long Beach CA and Tokyo that develops A.I. solutions to increase operational efficiency for our clients. Our solutions include recommendation engines, anomaly detection, pricing optimization, image recognition and so forth. We raised a $1MM seed round financing from a corporate venture capital in Japan.

Santa Fe Springs, Ca, Us

Wismettac Asian Foods Inc (formerly called Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd.) is one of the largest importers and distributors of Asian food products for food service and grocery retailers in North America with +$1B revenue. With its own nation-wide distribution system, Wismettac is the industry leader in serving the procurement needs for the largest food service operators and grocery stores.• Lead initiatives for data-driven decision making and managed projects on pricing, operations and inventory management by liaising between HQ management and branch managers• Managed lean product portfolio by collaborating with vendor management and sales teams and achieved to cut 5% SKU• Designed sales KPIs and created interactive dashboards on Tableau for sales teams to promote data-driven business decisions based on advanced data analyses• Built an innovative approach to manage wholesale pricing across regions by implementing statistical analysis on big data• Lead research initiatives and worked with web-scraping experts to list prospective customers and calculated current market share by states and cities• Addressed issues in operational processes, identified the route cause by data analytics and worked cross-functionally for improvements• Created machine-learning models using JMP software to build lists of target customers for effective new product promotions

Santa Fe Springs, Ca, Us

Provide effective purchasing management to increase profits with team of 4 associate buyers in Japan and China for $100M category. Develop new products by closely monitoring sales activities of 16 US & Canada locations and researching to grasp accurate customer responses on existing product lines or competing items. Reduce costs by negotiating with multiple suppliers and providing best logistic strategies for domestic and international distribution.-responsible for purchasing and sourcing food products for 32 global locations• Analyze market situation by product category and design new products or improve existing products in terms of taste quality, size, packaging and pricing for both foodservice and retail customers to increase share and profitability. • Provided effective purchasing management to increase profits with team of 4 associate buyers in Japan and China for $100M agricultural product category. • Reduced costs by negotiating with multiple suppliers and providing best logistic strategies for domestic and international distribution, saving $500K annually.

Santa Fe Springs, Ca, Us

• Responsible for developing new clients in new business segments nationwide, such as non-Japanese wholesalers, distributors and chain restaurants, using skills for networking and market-research to find new clients while seeking new suppliers for new business oppotunities. building relationships with existing clients to increase sales at the same time.• Responsible for cultivating new sales channels and building relationships with Liquor wholesalers• Marketing SAKE/SHOCHU with partnering American wine/liquor distributors nationwide• Planing, budgeting and executing exhibitions at trade shows, negotiating support from and involving overseas suppliers

Santa Fe Springs, Ca, Us

• Streamlined promotional approaches for clients and led branch sales volume by accounting for 15% of total revenue on team of 15 sales representatives. Cultivated ties with top grocery clients in Hawaii, responsible for over $5M revenue with 10% increase each year.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Marketing Certificate

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

• Provided staffing services for clients in consumer and service industries. Consulted client companies for staffing needs and found candidates most suitable for new positions. Supported candidates with interviews by clarifying career objectives and eliciting stories from past experience. Awarded for volume of new business development in the division of 46 sales reps.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor, Business Administration