Summary
Kunihiro Tanaka is the founder and long-serving CEO of Sakura Internet, which he started as a student in 1996 and grew to a Tokyo Mothers listing in 2005 and First Section IPO in 2015. Based in Osaka, he blends deep operational experience in IT, internet services and data center infrastructure with a strong focus on startups and entrepreneurship. Over more than two decades he has shepherded large-scale infrastructure builds and managed public company growth while maintaining a hands-on leadership style. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Software Association of Japan, influencing industry policy and collaboration. Trained in electrical and control engineering, he brings an engineer’s mindset to strategic business decisions and infrastructure reliability. Less obvious: his career began with student entrepreneurship and has consistently prioritized long-term platform investment over short-term pivots.
12 years of coding experience
associate, Electrical and Control Engineering, associate, Electrical and Control Engineering at Maizuru College of Technology