Summary
Kris Liang is a Tokyo-based strategist with a decade of experience driving innovation and commercial growth across telecom, corporate innovation, and startup ecosystems. He currently leads strategic initiatives at Rakuten Mobile’s New Business Initiatives while advising and expanding Meet Ventures’ presence in Japan, blending hands-on go-to-market execution with cross-functional team leadership. His background spans corporate strategy, accelerator design, private equity deal support, and supply chain relationship-building, underpinned by an MBA and regional experience across ASEAN and Japan. Known for translating complex data into practical business models, he also has a knack for turning internal optimization projects into marketable enterprise solutions. Less obvious: Kris combines corporate strategy rigor with startup-scouting fluency, routinely bridging large enterprises and early-stage teams to accelerate market access.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Waseda University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Exchange program, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Exchange program at Singapore Management University
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting at Murdoch University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Exchange Program, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Exchange Program at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, hokkien, Japanese