Summary
Masatoshi Ishida is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur based in Aichi, Japan, with over a decade of executive experience across startups and corporate ventures. He is the Executive Managing Director at Kaizu Denki Co., Ltd., where he returned to Nagoya in 2015 to succeed the family business and now leads R&D for new business fields. Prior to Kaizu Denki, he founded and led multiple ventures, including Frontier Co., Ltd. as CTO/Founder and rubicon inc. as CEO, and served as CTO/Founder at Insto Inc., shaping early-stage technology and digital advertising ventures. Earlier in his career he was a System Engineer at Panasonic System Networks, developing Set-Top-Box applications and API specifications. He holds a law degree from Waseda University, a background that informs his strategic leadership and governance across technology and business domains. His career reflects a unique blend of entrepreneurship, family-business stewardship, and scalable product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, law, bachelor, law at Waseda University