Management Team

Representative Director , President & CEO, (Concurrently) CPO
Taku Toguchi
He started his research and development of artificial intelligence in 2004. Since then, he has been engaged in continuous research and development of artificial intelligence for more than ten years and commercialization and financial strengthening. In 2015, he founded AI inside. As Representative Director, President & CEO, he has led service development, technology, management strategy and has invented many technology patents, including the below. Appointed as Executive Officer CPO of AI inside in February 2022 and is currently driving the company’s business growth as both CEO and CPO.
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Character recognition technology using machine learning combined with image recognition and natural language
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Virtual personality generation and recommendation technology from anonymous information
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Encryption technology using image processing
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Compression and transfer technology for documents
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Collation check system between AI-OCR result and human input data
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and others

Executive Director, COO
Maori Saito
After graduating Sophia University with a degree in International law relations, he joined Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (now Shinsei Bank), where he worked at the financial products development department at the head office in Sapporo. During then he obtained a MBA degree from New York University Graduate School of Business. He then joined Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, where he worked in the corporate business department. Afterwards he joined a IT start-up company as executive, and supported in listing and new business creations. After resigning, he supported a number of start-up companies including AI inside Inc. He was appointed as Executive Officer COO in April 2021, and Board Director in June 2021.

Executive Director, CMO
Yoshiaki Sakito
After working for Sony, Bain & Company, The Walt Disney Company, and AOL, Yoshiaki founded Livedoor. Steve Jobs entrusted him with the Japanese market, and he became Vice President of Apple’s U.S. headquarters and Representative Director of Apple Japan. He then revived Apple from its crisis. He is currently the CEO of REALDEAR and is involved in developing a learning platform and consulting. Appointed as Executive Director of AI inside in June 2021 and as Executive Officer CMO in February 2022.

Non-Executive Director
Kenichi Hoshi
Kenichi joined JUKI CORPORATION in 1989 and worked in the Soviet Union, India, and Singapore, and afterward served as President of local subsidiaries in Romania and France. From 2005, he served as President of the Thai Subsidiary of Misumi Group Inc. In 2008, he joined Amazon Japan G.K., where he served as Director and led the Retail, Marketplace, and B2B business divisions. In 2020, he became COO of Oisix ra daichi, Inc., and is currently the President of kenhoshi&Company, External Director of Medley, Inc., and others. He was appointed as Board Director of AI inside Inc. in June 2021.

Executive Officer, CFO
Ryuki Okamura
After graduating from Waseda University with a B.A. degree in Law, Ryuki engaged in financial statement audit and advisory projects for global entities at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC in the U.S. and Japan. He then joined Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, where he provided consulting services, and afterwards he was in charge of financial accounting and process improvement projects mainly for overseas entities at Lenovo Japan Co Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd., and Moody’s Group Japan G.K., etc. He joined AI inside in October 2021 and was appointed as Executive Officer CFO in February 2022. Certified Public Accountant (USCPA).

Executive Officer, CIO
Kyoichiro Suzuki
For 13 years from 1991, Kyoichiro led and supervised software product development at start-ups and listed companies in and around Silicon Valley. After returning to Japan in 2004, he joined Microsoft Corporation (now Microsoft Japan). He served as Executive Officer of Developer & Platform Evangelism, Chief Information Officer for Japan and Japan, and General Manager of IT Division at the U.S. HQ. In 2013, he left Microsoft and founded Leftright Corporation, which provides intellectual property management consulting and innovation support. Appointed as Advisor of AI inside in June 2021 and Executive Information Officer (CIO) in October 2022.

Executive Officer, CRO
Kazutoshi Okada
After graduating from university, he started his career as a system engineer and started his own system development company in his 20s. Later on, he held executive positions at EDS JAPAN, Japan Systems, and Hewlett Packard Japan. After becoming an Executive Officer at IBM Japan in 2013, he was in charge of insurance and partner business and spread “IBM Watson” to the financial industry and over 500 IT companies nationwide. Joins AI inside in December 2022, and appointed as CRO(Executive Officer) in March 2023.

Executive Officer, CXO
Hiroki Hosaka
Graduate of Chiba University with a degree in Design Science. After graduating, he joined Nikon Corporation, where he worked on UI design for electronic devices. Afterwards, he worked on UX design for IoT devices at LEOMO, Inc. and UX design consulting at Tigerspike Tokyo. He started supporting AI inside Inc. from July 2017 as external designer, and officially joined in October 2019. He launched the design organization, and oversees the design operation. Appointed as Executive Officer CXO (Chief Experience Officer) of AI inside Inc in April 2021.

Executive Officer, CTO
Hu Weiming
Born in Wuhan, China. After graduating from university in 2004, he joined a Chinese-Japanese joint corporation and came to Japan in Fall 2006. He has a wide range of experience in development projects, including embedded applications, web applications, and authentication middleware. Since joining AI inside in April 2019, he has worked on product development of “AI inside Cube” and “Learning Center,” and is driving business development and expansion from scratch. He holds a Master’s degree in technology management. Appointed as Executive Officer CTO of AI inside in April 2022.
Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Takayuki Satoh
After joining a foreign bank and working at a major auditing firm (in the U.S.), he established Sato Management Law Office. He has served as an external auditor of Mixi Inc. and Ace Insurance Co., Ltd. and was appointed as an Audit & Supervisory Board Member of AI inside Inc in June 2019. Graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics. Lawyer and a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (USCPA).
Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Misao Akutsu
After joining Recruit Center Co., Ltd. (currently Recruit Holding Co., Ltd.), he worked in human resources for 10.5 years, and in real estate for 4.5 years. He then took charge in human resources at Able Inc, Plaza Create Co, Backs Group Inc and Apaman Shop Network Co (Currently APAMAN Co., Ltd). In March of 2004, he established Coco Breeze. Inc and has been consulting mainly for start up companies. Appointed as Audit & Supervisory Board Member of AI inside Inc. in June 2018.
Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Wataru Kagawa
Mr. Kagawa joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (currently Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). After serving as Director and Executive Officer at NTT DoCoMo, and Full-time Corporate Auditor of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation, he is currently an non-executive director (part-time) of several venture companies. In June 2021, he was appointed as Audit & Supervisory Board Member of AI inside Inc. Graduate of Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.