Akito Kashiwai
New Business And Corporate Development
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAkito Kashiwai is a strategy and new business development leader with a decade of hands-on experience building payments products and startups, blending a background as a full-stack C#.NET engineer with strategic roles across NTT, Payoo, and recent strategy positions. He holds an MBA and MS in Design Innovation from Kellogg, where he was a Zell fellow and co-led the Founders Club, demonstrating a strong builder’s mindset paired with formal training in product design and business. Akito has managed global, cross-functional projects (PMP® certified) and launched payment initiatives across seven countries, giving him a practical global lens on regulation, partnerships, and go-to-market execution. Equally comfortable in code and boardroom, he focuses on turning technical feasibility into commercially viable products and new business models. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he pivoted from a decade of full-stack engineering into strategy while preserving active development fluency, enabling rapid prototyping and pragmatic decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Exchange Student at Freie Universität BerlinMaster of Science - MS, Design innovation, Master of Science - MS, Design innovation at Northwestern UniversityKellogg School of ManagementBachelor's degree, international development, Bachelor's degree, international development at University of Tsukuba
English, Japanese, German, Thai, Vietnamese
Github Skills (3)
python5
voting3
csharp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akitosun/WorkDoAuto
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
WorkDo平台自動打卡程式
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 months
python
akitosun/gpt-ai-assistant
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
OpenAI + LINE + Vercel = GPT AI Assistant
Contributions:3 pushes in 17 days
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