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Representative Director and CEO, Nowcast

Masashi is the CEO of Nowcast, which is the Japanese Alternative Data provider. He and Nowcast are leading the Japanese alternative data industry working with a variety of data driven organizations such as JCB, Nikkei, CCC Marketing and others.

Masashi started his career at Bank of Japan as an economist. He worked on enhancement of business surveys called Tankan and monitoring the financial market in the Policy Planning Bureau in Bank of Japan. After he joined Nowcast, he has been leading the product development, sales and marketings and acquring partnerships.