Executive Officer

HISAYO KOGAWARA

HISAYO KOGAWARA

Executive Officer

FINANCIAL SERVICES (LIFE INSURANCE, SECURITIES), INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS

Before joining Dirbato, Hisayo assumed their current position after working for a Japanese general consulting firm and an overseas financial corporation. Their strength lies in the fields of DX promotion and project management, and they has built up many results providing support for IT organization reforms as a part of their DX promotion activities. Has gained much experience in operation restructuring in such areas as organization reform, simplification and automation. They has also been responsible for various global projects that demand cross-border problem solving.

Professional

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  SHIN AOKI

  

  SHIN AOKI

  Partner

  HIGH-TECH, INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS, MANUFACTURING, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES

  Before joining Dirbato, Shin assumed their present position after working for overseas and Japanese general consulting firms. Is engaged in management, strategic IT proposals, business process re-engineering (BPR), outsourcing (BPO, ITSO), DX (AI, analytics, RPA), and the design and development of applications (including multi-vendor management and Change Management) centering around high-tech, information communications, manufacturing and social infrastructures, and has scored impressive results providing support for the implementation of corporate transformation for many years.

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  KAZUMA ISHIMOTO

  

  KAZUMA ISHIMOTO

  Partner

  DISTRIBUTION, RETAILT, MANUFACTURING, AVIATION, INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS

  Before joining Dirbato, Kazuma assumed their current position after working for a Japanese SIer, a foreign IT vendor, and a Japanese general consulting firm. They provide consulting services to a variety of industries, with a focus on the distribution, retail, and manufacturing industries. Engaged in various themes such as IT concept planning, business planning, IT human resource development, BPR, IT introduction consulting, and large-scale project management for many years. They specializ in business reform using ERP, mainly in the area of ​​financial accounting.

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  HIDEAKI KAGETSU

  

  HIDEAKI KAGETSU

  Partner

  FINANCIAL SERVICES (Banking & Capital Markets)

  Before joining Dirbato, Hideaki assumed their current position after working for leadership and management positions at multiple foreign consulting firms, foreign and Japanese financial institutions, rating agencies. They have extensive experience in planning and implementing trading systems and financial risk management systems, including overseas bases of Japanese megabanks, as well as many related BPRbusiness reform projects. They have many achievements such as IT strategy planning and cost optimization projects for financial institutions covering global bases.

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  YU KANOMATA

  

  YU KANOMATA

  Partner

  MANUFACTURING , FINANCIAL SERVICES (BANKING, SECURITIES), INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS

  Before joining Dirbato, Yu assumed their current position after working for a Japanese general consulting firm. Engaged in a wide range of themes from business strategy planning and planning, IT strategy formulation to implementation and operation in manufacturing, financial services (banking, securities), and information communication. They have worked on many projects such as IT strategy/planning, large-scale system development management, etc., and contribute to the steady growth of clients by providing timely solutions based on reliable analysis of the current situation.

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  SATORU KITAMURA

  

  SATORU KITAMURA

  Partner

  MOBILITY, COMMUNICATIONS, TRADING COMPANIES, FINANCIAL SERVICES (SECURITIES, BANKING, DAMAGE INSURANCE)

  Before joining Dirbato, Satoru assumed their current position after working for a systems integrator and a Japanese general consulting firm. Engaged in a wide range of topics, from strategic planning through to implementation support, centered around IT in the fields of mobility, communications, trading companies and financial institutions. Their greatest strength is getting involved with stakeholders throughout the entire company, including management members, and identifying abstract problems to promote methods of solving them based on their indisputable technological skills. Their specialties include proposing new services, considering architectures and improving operations based on their grasp of technological trends in the field of IT.

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  YUSUKE SATO

  

  YUSUKE SATO

  Partner

  FINANCIAL SERVICES (BANKING, LIFE INSURANCE), COMMUNICATIONS, MANUFACTURING, PUBLIC

  Before joining Dirbato, Yusuke assumed their current position after working for a Japanese comprehensive consulting firm. They have mainly been involved in project management related to system development in the financial industry. They have experience in leading DX projects, IT strategies, infrastructure renewal, system integration, and business improvement projects. In particular, they specialize in IT strategy formulation, RFP, requirement definition in the upstream process of the project.

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  TERUMITSU TAKAHASHI

  

  TERUMITSU TAKAHASHI

  Partner

  FINANCIAL SERVICES (LIFE INSURANCE, DAMAGE INSURANCE), HEALTHCARE

  Before joining Dirbato, Terumitsu assumed their current position after working for a domestic insurance-related IT company and a general consultation firm (one of the Big 4 domestic firms, at which he was a partner). Provides consulting services mainly for domestic and overseas insurance companies. Has built up much experience in leading consulting services in a wide range of fields, including post-M&A integration strategy planning, PMI execution support, planning and development support for commodity and services companies, management restructuring, operation restructuring, and human resource training.

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  RYUICHIRO TODA

  

  RYUICHIRO TODA

  Partner

  FINANCIAL SERVICES (BANKING, SECURITIES), RETAILT, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURING

  Before joining Dirbato, Ryuichiro assumed their current position after working for a foreign ISV and Japanese think tank. They specialize in project management related to DX, security and infrastructure, and have experience in leading and promoting a wide range of DX-related fields in one stop, such as account management, operation management, service management, vendor management, and IT roadmap formulation. They also have rich experience in promoting large-scale development projects with tens of thousands of users, and specialize in advanced quality control.

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  KAZUFUMI NOBU

  

  KAZUFUMI NOBU

  Partner

  GAMES, INTERNET, EC, INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS, TRADING COMPANIES

  Before joining Dirbato, Kazufumi assumed their current position after working for a systems integrator and a Japanese general consulting firm. Engaged in various themes centered on the fields of games and the Internet, from IT strategy planning through to system conception and formulation. Places the emphasis on practicality over logic, and is especially skilled at providing flexible support in alignment with client requirements. In particular, they excels at technology consulting encompassing all relevant aspects, from planning the infrastructure of entire companies with the use of the three main cloud services (Amazon, Microsoft and Google) and other universal technologies, through to architecture mounting.

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  TETSUYA HIRAKAWA

  

  TETSUYA HIRAKAWA

  Partner

  FINANCIAL SERVICES (BANKING, SECURITIES, LIFE INSURANCE, DAMAGE INSURANCE), PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, TRADING COMPANIES, EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

  Before joining Dirbato, Tetsuya assumed their current position after working for a Japanese major System integration company and multiple Big 4 consulting firms. They have mainly led numerous IT strategy formulation projects for clients in the financial industry, as well as planning and launching DX programs across the entire company, providing operational support, and leading projects to reform and promote operations. With extensive experience in formulating and promoting growth strategies for global rollouts and roll-ins, they are also strong in providing support for cross-border and complex and mid-term views.

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  RYOTARO WATANABE

  

  RYOTARO WATANABE

  Partner

  FINANCIAL SERVICES (SECURITIES, BANKING)

  Before joining Dirbato, Ryotaro assumed their current position after working for several Japanese general consulting firms. Also has a background in IT strategic consulting, execution support, and PM/PMO positions for large-scale developments, etc., concentrated around the Finacial Services. Their main strengths lie in broad-ranging knowledge of everything from IT planning through to execution, operation and effect verification, and in their coordination and promotion skills among stakeholders within and outside of client companies, including management members.

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  SHINPEI YOKOYAMA

  

  SHINPEI YOKOYAMA

  Partner

  DISTRIBUTION(RETAILT, EC)

  Before joining Dirbato, Shinpei assumed their current position after working for a Japanese comprehensive consulting firm (IT division). Their main strength lies in project management and architecture, and they have rich experience in leading projects in various fields such as promoting DX projects, IT strategies, governance and system renewal. They have also been in charge of projects for consulting services.