Summary
Kent Yamamoto is a Japanese design-led technology executive with 11+ years building startups and digital products, currently serving as Director and CDO at COUNTERWORKS. He began as a freelance designer during university, founded THE CLIP in 2013 and led its acquisition by OPEN8 in 2016, where he stayed on as executive CDO before returning to COUNTERWORKS. Kent blends hands-on product and design sensibilities with strategic leadership across creative teams and corporate M&A, having navigated both startup founding and post-acquisition integration. Based in Chiyoda, he is known for turning early-stage ideas into scalable media and design businesses, bringing uncommon fluency between visual craft and executive decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Aoyama Gakuin University