Takaaki Kitajima Email & Phone Number

Takao KitajimaRelic Holdings Co Ltd & Relic Co Ltd Representative Director & CEO | FounderBorn in Tokyo in 1986. After spending his childhood moving from place to place across Japan due to his father's work, he settled in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. After graduating from Kawagoe High School in Saitama Prefecture and Keio University in 2008, he worked at an organisational/human resources consulting firm and a management consulting firm specialising in new business, supporting new business development and organisational transformation in a wide range of companies from small and medium-sized ventures to large corporations. He then joined the IT mega-venture DeNA in 2013. He was responsible for new business development, business strategy/business planning, and as a manager of open innovation with large companies, he was responsible for the creation and growth of a number of businesses, which grew to a scale of 10 billion yen.In 2015, he founded Relic Inc. and is currently in his current position, where he has led the company's rapid growth into an industry-leading company with a market share and track record, having supported approximately 4,000 companies and 20,000 new business developments in eight years, while also launching several products with the No. 1 market share in Japan as an IT start-up company. He is active in many fields, including acting as an advisor and mentor in corporate new business creation and acceleration programmes, as well as investing in and providing management support to promising venture and start-up companies.In 2021, Relic was transferred to a holding company structure and he became the representative of Relic Holdings Ltd. Expanded to 10 group companies with 300 employees and continues to actively recruit. Top rankings in Asia-Pacific Fastest Growing Companies Ranking/Nikkei Business Fastest Growing Companies Ranking/ Nippon New Business Creation Award, Entrepreneur Category, etc.Author of the bestselling book New Business Development Management for Reproducibility of Innovation - Strategy, Organisation and Execution to Control Uncertainty (Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing).https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4532323681/

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