Ron Kato Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

Overseeing US operations for Pococha, Japan's top social live streaming platform. Heading up creator acquisition, user acquisition, business development, marketing, and business operations (KPI calculation & monitoring and OKR management)

Minato, Tokyo, Jp

Cambridge Technology Partners is a Tokyo based management consulting firm that specializes in facilitation & leveraging technology to implement strategic and operational change. - Built US presence from zero- P&L owner for North America- Created business plan and executed GTM strategy- Speaker at seminars on global digital transformation- Client Partner responsible for all projects in North AmericaSome projects we delivered:- New business creation for a global insurance company- Organizational restructuring for a manufacturer- AI & Machine Learning training for a manufacturer- Business plan creation for a new REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) marketplace- Strategy and business plan creation for a regional bank

Palo Alto, California, Us

All things business for a self driving robotics company (Stanford StartX)- Pitch deck & fund raising strategy- Financial projection & business plan- Industry & competitive analysis- Go-to-market strategy- Data crunching: economics, market size, competitive dynamics, etc.- Robot training: taking our bot out for daily strolls to gather data

Built a new digital marketing practice for a data intelligence company, leading the business from concept to revenue generation• Established a new revenue stream consisting of insights for marketers, audience creation, and ad effectiveness measurement• Cultivated key global partnerships to secure additional revenue streams• Led all go to market efforts and defined all product positioning, value propositions, differentiation, target clients, and pricing models• Developed all essential processes and procedures across sales, product, marketing, legal, and finance • Hired, trained, and mentored all team members and established an effective, cohesive team culture• Published two whitepapers on data use in user acquisition - Monogamers, serial monogamers and polygamers: which users make a game successful? - Lookalikes looking too alike? How to differentiate models with purchase data• Keynote speaker at conferences - Whales in the wild: What big data reveals about the biggest game spenders (PocketGamer Connect SF 2017)• Member of management team

San Mateo, California, Us

San Mateo, Ca, Us

• Created three year corporate vision shifting our identity from a channel specialist to multi-channel online marketing service provider• Formulated strategy to add new services that would bring synergy to the core business, and identified necessary steps (build/buy/partner) to get there• Assessed M&A target for strategic fit and made recommendations to the CEO• Designed and implemented KPI based management throughout the organization• Spearheaded initiative to strategically evolve Salesforce.com into a CRM and KPI management platform• Analyzed international markets to identify global expansion opportunities and prioritization• Managed the quarterly leadership offsite meeting as well as BOD and management meetings

• Formulated international expansion strategy by sizing and prioritizing markets and creating Go-To-Market documents.

Minato, Tokyo, Jp

• Performed project management, issue analysis, functional requirement identification, scope definition, system design and development• Developed systems using wide array of programming languages (HTML, Javascript, CSS, Java, JSP, C, Visual Basic, SQL, SAP ABAP, Siebel)

Mba With Distinction, Strategy, Corporate Finance, Marketing

Mit Sloan & Mit Csail Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy Program

Bba, Mis