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Board of Directors and Executive Officers

Yoshihiro Obata

President and CEO

1986 Joined Kokusai Denshin Denwa K.K. (now KDDI Corporation)
1999 Director and CTO, eAccess K.K. (now Softbank Corp.)
2004 Senior Managing Executive Officer and CTO of the company
2008 Senior Managing Executive Officer, EMOBILE Corporation (now SoftBank Corp.)
2009 Director, Japan Internet Providers Association (JAIPA)
2010 Executive Officer, Technology Division, eAccess K.K. (currently Softbank Corp.)
2012 Executive Officer, Senior Research Fellow, Corporate Planning Division
2013 Solution Architect, Equinix Japan K.K.
2014 Appointed Representative Director of BizMobile Inc.
2015 President and CEO, BizMobile Inc.
2019 President and CEO, IoT-EX Inc. (to present)

Jun Matsumura

Representative Director, Founder

  • Speednet, NASDAQ Japan, Akamai Japan, Xdrive, D-Corp, Yahoo! Engaged in the launch and firefighting of numerous SoftBank-related new businesses, including Cyber University and Secure Isa Marketing.

  • Translated and published Software Testing for Internet Applications (Softbank Publishing) (2003)
1981 Joined Nippon Silicon Corporation (currently SUMCO Corporation)
1994 Director, COO and General Manager of System Development Department, Urban Network Corporation
2000 Managing Director and COO of e-Cosmo Corporation (now M-Solutions Corporation)
2001 Representative Director, President & CEO and General Manager of BPO Business Division, SoftBank Technology Corp.
2005 Director and COO, Secure Isa Marketing, Inc.
2005 President and CEO of Movida Solutions K.K. (now M-Solutions K.K.)
2005 Concurrently Executive Officer, SOFTBANK TECHNOLOGY CORP.
2007 Concurrently President and CEO, Movida Sports, Inc.
2007 Concurrently President and CEO, Movida Entertainment, Inc.
2009 Founded BizMobile Corporation, President and CEO
2015 Founder and Representative Director, BizMobile K.K.
2019 Representative Director and CTO, IoT-EX Corporation
2021 Founder and Representative Director, IoT-EX Corporation (to present)

Katsura Sato

board member

1986 Joined Aoyama Audit Corporation
1990 Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
1997 Full-time Corporate Auditor of SOFTBANK Corporation (currently SoftBank Group Corp.)
2000 Director, Head of Finance and Accounting, Softbank e-Commerce Corporation (currently Softbank Corp.)
2002 External Director, Gungho Online Entertainment, Inc.
2003 General Manager, Administration Division, SOFTBANK BB Corp.
2004 General Manager of Related Business Supervisory Div.
2007 Representative of Katsura Sato Office (current position)
2007 External Director, Vector Inc.
2008 External Corporate Auditor, Carview Corporation
2010 Outside Corporate Auditor, BizMobile K.K.
2012 External Corporate Auditor, Cave Inc.
2015 External Corporate Auditor, SBI Securities Co.
2016 Director, BizMobile K.K.
2017 External Director, De facto Standard Corporation
2017 External Director of gooddays Holdings K.K. (to present)
2019 Outside Director and Audit Committee Member, Cave Inc.
2019 Director, IoT-EX Corporation (to present)

Takashi Igarashi

Auditor

1986 Joined Kokusai Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (now KDDI Corporation)
1999 General Manager of Sales Planning Department, Deutsche Telekom AG
2000 General Manager of Sales Planning Department, eAccess K.K. (now SoftBank Corp.)
2007 Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of President's Office, EMOBILE Corporation (currently SoftBank Corp.)
2012 Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Service Strategy Division
2015 General Manager, Business Promotion Department, YM Sales Support Division, SoftBank Mobile Corp.
2016 Representative of Escorte (small and medium-sized enterprise diagnostician office) (current position)
2017 Certified as an authorized support organization for management innovation, etc. (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) (present post)
2021 Part-time lecturer, Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo University (current position)
2022 Auditor, IoT-EX Corporation (present post)

Kiroko Yoshiyuki

Outside Corporate Auditor

1990 Joined Taiyo Kobe Mitsui Banking Corporation (currently Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation)
2004 Registered as an attorney (Daini Tokyo Bar Association) (incumbent)
2005 Director and General Manager of Legal Department, MOVIDA HOLDINGS Corporation
2006 Director, Digital Adventure Inc.
2007 General Manager, Legal Department, Softbank IDC Corporation (now IDC Frontier Inc.)
2009 Partner, Tokyo Ochanomizu Sogo Law Office (current position)
2012 External Corporate Auditor, SHIFT Corporation
2015 External Director, DualTap Corporation (to present)
2016 Outside Corporate Auditor, BizMobile K.K.
2019 Outside Director of FISCO Corporation (to present)
2019 Outside Corporate Auditor, IoT-EX Corporation (to present)