Company

Our Purpose

Make It Exciting
For Everyone
To Do Business.

Business is exciting.

We live for the moments when people's passions, dreams, and ideas come true.

That's why we provide technology to make every business borderless.
Empowering everyone with greater possibilities and freedom to create new products and services.

Let's move forward, together.
Any passion, any dream, any idea can create new value in this world.

Our Mission

Make Every Business Borderless

Technology has enabled an age where anyone can do business with the rest of the world.

However, borders still remain. Borders between siloed information and data across a business, borders between physical boundaries, borders between businesses and their customers, and more.

We're looking to make every business borderless by providing an integrated platform that solves challenges for people and companies with passion and ideas. Our technology creates a world where everyone can do business more easily and globally.

Our Values

01.Be Open

Embrace diversity, and express your thoughts openly while respecting other people's opinions.
02.Be Bold

Don't set limitations for yourself, keep on challenging for more.
03.Move Faster

Be faster than anyone else, and put your ideas into action quickly.
04.Stay Updated

Update yourself with information to achieve better outcomes.
05.Achieve Together

In all situations, always identify and run towards a common goal.

Company Deck

CEO's Message

Since I was a boy, I dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur. I was excited by the prospect of running my own business and creating an impact on the world.

In 2016, my passion and dream came true with the founding of AnyMind Group together with Otohiko Kozutsumi. Over the years, the company has gone full speed into new markets, new products, and new industries. We have also propelled the growth of the most exciting and forward-thinking enterprises and creators in Asia and beyond by constantly delivering new value to them.

As a company, our purpose is to make it exciting for everyone to do business. From our technology and solutions to our people, we’re all focused on opening up new possibilities for our customers, and that is why we’ve constantly evolved and expanded our offerings over the years.

Today, we are an end-to-end commerce enablement company that is transforming commerce to become more exciting, effective, and efficient through our technology. We’re putting the ability to do great business into the hands of creators and enterprises across Asia and the world, and empowering them to experience the excitement in easily bringing ideas to life.

I believe that any passion, any dream, and any idea can create new value in this world, and the thing is, we’re only getting started.

Let's move forward, together.

Leadership

Kosuke Sogo

CEO and co-founder

Otohiko Kozutsumi

CCO and co-founder

Keizo Okawa

CFO

Siwat Vilassakdanont

Managing Director, Thailand and the Philippines

Tatum Ona Kembara

Managing Director, E-Commerce Enablement

Hitoshi Maruyama

Managing Director, Publisher Growth

Ben Chien

Managing Director, Greater China

Ryuji Takemoto

Managing Director, Product Development

Koki Shibata

Managing Director, Engineering

Punsak Limvatanayingyong

Managing Director, Creator Growth

Rubeena Singh

Country Manager, India and MENA

Aditya Aima

Managing Director, Growth Markets

Siddharth Kelkar

Managing Director, Performance Business

Takehiko Mizutani

Managing Director, Human Resources

Ted Kim

Country Manager, Korea

Lidyawati Aurelia

Country Manager, Indonesia

Nguyen Thi Ha My

Country Manager, Vietnam

Wing Lee

General Manager, Taiwan

Lee Chin Chuan

Country Manager, Malaysia

Toh Yi Hui

Country Manager, Singapore

Mayi Baviera

Country Manager, Philippines

Rohit Sharma

Senior Advisor

Shohei Murata

Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Shogo Ikeuchi

External Director

Nao Kitazawa

External Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Tomoyuki Oka

External Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Our Advisors

Keisuke Honda

Advisor

Yutaka Matsuo

Advisor

Toshihiko Yamasaki

Advisor

Company Profile

Company Name

AnyMind Group Inc.

Head Office

31/F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
TEL: +813-6384-5540

Representative

Kosuke Sogo

Foundation

April 2016

Business Portfolio

<Brand Commerce>
Development and provision of a platform that provides one-stop support for brand design and planning, production, e-commerce enablement, marketing, and logistics.

<Partner Growth>
Platforms for website and mobile application publishers and content creators to monetize and grow their brands.

Kosuke Sogo

CEO and co-founder

Kosuke Sogo is CEO and co-founder of AnyMind Group, and oversees the expansion and growth of the company and its business units in globally. He is an Endeavor Entrepreneur and was ranked top 10 by Forbes JAPAN for their "Japanese Entrepreneurs Ranking" in 2022 and top 20 in 2021 and 2020. Prior to founding AnyMind Group, he was Managing Director, APAC for MicroAd Inc, and the youngest-ever director for the company.

Otohiko Kozutsumi

CCO and co-founder

Otohiko Kozutsumi has been involved in digital marketing, ad technology, and business development since 2007, including business expansion and overseas expansion at Nobot Inc. and contributed to its acquisition by mediba Inc.

In April 2016, he co-founded AnyMind Group (formerly AdAsia Holdings Pte. Ltd.). As Chief Commercial Officer, he leads the company's advertising, D2C, and e-commerce related businesses.

Keizo Okawa

CFO

Keizo Okawa is the Chief Finance Officer at AnyMind Group, and he leads AnyMind Group’s financial strategy, control and management. He is also responsible for the corporate function for AnyMind Group.He has over 13 years of experience working in the financial industry, and prior to AnyMind Group, he was at Morgan Stanley, where he was vice president in the investment banking group.

Siwat Vilassakdanont

Managing Director, Thailand and the Philippines

Siwat Vilassakdanont is responsible for the company’s business and operations in Thailand and oversees the Philippines business for AnyMind Group. Vilassakdanont joined AnyMind Group in March 2019 following the acquisition of Moindy, where he was Managing Partner. Vilassakdanont has a background in finance and entrepreneurship with roles in Trinity Securities and Merrill Lynch, and co-founded various startups including WXYZ and Dealicious.

Tatum Ona Kembara

Managing Director, E-Commerce Enablement

Tatum started her career in FMCG distribution for 6 years before doing her Master Degree in Harvard University. Upon graduating, she became a management consultant in Kearney and then joined the rise of fashion startup Sale Stock. Having a strong passion for FMCG, Tatum joined Blibli as Vice President of Business Growth to grow Bliblimart and eventually, equipped with both offline distribution and ecommerce experience, started DDI to help FMCG Brands grow their business in ecommerce.

Hitoshi Maruyama

Managing Director, Publisher Growth

Hitoshi Maruyama leads Publisher Growth at AnyMind Group, and he is responsible for AnyMind Group's publisher-side business.He previously held roles in Japanese advertising company Geniee and Indonesia-based ADSTARS.

Ben Chien

Managing Director, Greater China

Ben Chien is Managing Director of AnyMind Group in Greater China, and also leads AnyMind Group’s sell-side business for the region. Prior to joining AnyMind Group, Chien was founder of Acqua Media, which was subsequently acquired by AnyMind Group. Founded in 2013, Acqua Media provides programmatic selling strategy and ad monetization services for premium web publishers and app developers.

Ryuji Takemoto

Managing Director, Product Development

Ryuji Takemoto leads AnyMind Group's product development department, including driving product development for new businesses in AnyMind Group.

His experience covers product development across mobile applications, games, news applications, and an ad network that he co-founded.

Koki Shibata

Managing Director, Engineering

Koki Shibata joined AnyMind Group in 2019 as a full-stack engineer and was promoted to Head of Engineering in January 2021. He previously held engineering roles in OPT, Inc. and Works Applications. In his new role as Managing Director of Engineering, Shibata is responsible for overseeing the rapid development and deployment of new products and features and managing AnyMind Group’s engineers situated across AnyMind Group’s engineering hubs in Japan, Vietnam, Bangkok and India.

Punsak Limvatanayingyong

Managing Director, Creator Growth

Punsak Limvatanayingyong is responsible for AnyMind Group's Creator Growth business unit globally. Prior to joining AnyMind Group, Limvatanayingyong was founder of Moindy, a Thailand-based influencer network that was acquired by AnyMind Group.

Rubeena Singh

Country Manager, India and MENA

Rubeena leads AnyMind Group's business and operations across India and MENA markets.

She has held leadership roles across social media, advertising and publishing industries, including Country Manager of Josh, CEO of iProspect India and COO of MoneyControl.

Aditya Aima

Managing Director, Growth Markets

Aditya Aima is responsible for various growth initiatives in AnyMind Group. Aima joined AnyMind Group following the acquisition of POKKT, where he was Vice President for Southeast Asia. Prior to joining POKKT, Aima held leadership roles in Culture Machine, Astro Malaysia, Bloomberg, Turner, STAR India and more.

Siddharth Kelkar

Managing Director, Performance Business

Siddharth Kelkar is spearheading the global performance business at AnyMind Group, and has over 17 years of expertise across various mediums including television, print and digital. He has worked in various leadership roles at Reliance Games, CNBC TV18, SVG Media and most recently at POKKT Mobile Ads.

Takehiko Mizutani

Managing Director, Human Resources

Takehiko Mizutani joins AnyMind Group with over two decades of experience in human resources. Mizutani started his career at Recruit Co., Ltd. then moved to management consulting firm Link and Motivation Inc. In 2013, he founded his own consulting firm focusing on organizational consulting and learning and development. As Managing Director of Human Resources for AnyMind Group, he is responsible for the human resource function across AnyMind Group’s 13 markets, with a focus on HR strategy, policies and initiatives on organization-wide and local market levels, and drive sustainable organizational growth for the company.

Ted Kim

Country Manager, Korea

Ted Kim leads AnyMind Group’s business and operations in Korea. Before joining AnyMind, Kim was Regional Director - Korean Clients, at ADA. Prior to ADA, Kim held roles Twitter, Google and Microsoft.

Lidyawati Aurelia

Country Manager, Indonesia

Lidyawati Aurelia is the Country Manager of AnyMind Group in Indonesia. She is responsible for the company’s operations in Indonesia, with the aim of establishing AnyMind Group as the leading technology company in Indonesia with technological solutions for various industries that empower growth.

Nguyen Thi Ha My

Country Manager, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Ha My leads AnyMind Group's business and operations for Vietnam. She has worked across the marketing and advertising industry, including roles at Happiness Saigon, Daybreak Digital, Dream Incubator and Customer Smile JSC.

Wing Lee

General Manager, Taiwan

Wing Lee leads AnyMind Group's business and operations for Taiwan. She has more than a decade of exprience working across the advertising and marketing industry in leadership positions.

Lee Chin Chuan

Country Manager, Malaysia

Lee Chin Chuan is Country Manager of Malaysia for AnyMind Group, and leads the company's operations in Malaysia. Prior to joining AnyMind Group, Chin Chuan held roles at VMLY&R, Isobar Malaysia, and Naga DDB.

Toh Yi Hui

Country Manager, Singapore

Yi Hui leads AnyMind Group's business and operations for Singapore.

He has worked in a variety of roles across the marketing and advertising industry for a decade, and held previous positions in Kingsmen Creatives.

Mayi Baviera

Country Manager, Philippines

Mayi Baviera leads AnyMind Group's business and operations in the Philippines. Before joining AnyMind, Baviera was Country Director for the Philippines at ADA. Prior to joining ADA, she held leadership roles at Cheil and Digital FCB Manila.

Rohit Sharma

Senior Advisor

Rohit Sharma is a Senior Advisor for AnyMind Group.

Sharma co-founded of POKKT Mobile Ads, acquired by AnyMind Group in March 2020. Sharma has over 20 years of experience in the digital advertising industry, and prior to POKKT, Sharma held roles at Reliance Entertainment, Times Internet, and Cyber Media India Limited.

Shohei Murata

Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Shohei Murata is an auditor at AnyMind Group. He started his career at KPMG in 2011, and in 2017, joined AnyMind Group, where he worked in a wide range of accounting and finance roles, and has been in his current position since 2019.

Shogo Ikeuchi

External Director

Shogo Ikeuchi joined RECRUIT Co. in 1988. After working in supercomputer-related business and corporate planning, he joined the Corporate Planning division in 2000, where he was engaged in formulating medium to long-term growth strategies and promoting new business development and overseas expansion. 2005: Executive Officer. 2012: Director. He has served as CSO/CHRO and Advisor to the Board of Directors, and has been an Advisor to the company since 2020; appointed Outside Director of Sony Financial Holdings, Inc. in June 2019; appointed Representative Director of JIC Capital Corporation in September 2020.

Nao Kitazawa

External Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Nao Kitazawa spent six years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he helped grow the firm's real estate practice. Prior to this, he worked as a lawyer for six years, practicing financial and real estate law in Japan and New York. In 2014, he participated in the launch of Money Design Inc. as COO, and also the launch and business expansion of robo-advisor "THEO". He also contributed to the establishment of the Fintech Association in Japan as a board member (retired). He joined Coinbase in 2018, the largest virtual currency exchange in the United States. He is currently CEO of Japan for Coinbase.

Tomoyuki Oka

External Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Oka is Partner in Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 2004, admitted to the bar in 2006, and graduated from the University of Chicago (LL.M.) in 2012.

Oka handles a wide range of corporate legal matters, including IPOs and other securities transactions in domestic and international capital markets, as well as startup support.

Keisuke Honda

Advisor

Keisuke Honda is a professional football player, has represented Japan at three FIFA World Cups, and won the Most Valuable Player award in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. Currently head coach for the Cambodia national football team, Honda has played for football teams across Asia, Europe and Central America.

As an entrepreneur, Honda has started a football school with over 80 locations globally, and founded KSK Angel Fund, a personal investment fund. In 2018, he launched the Dreamers Fund with actor, Will Smith. He was appointed as a “Global Advocate for Youth” by the UN Foundation in 2016, and a special researcher at MIT Media Lab.

Yutaka Matsuo

Advisor

Yutaka Matsuo specializes in artificial intelligence, data extraction, social media analysis, business models and more. He is also working on research in knowledge structuring (the structuring of information in the human brain) and the impact of the internet on society and the economy.

Matsuo also serves as President of the Japan Deep Learning Association, an organization aimed at improving Japan’s industrial competitiveness in technologies around deep learning, and he has also served as a director of multiple companies.

Toshihiko Yamasaki

Advisor

Prof. Dr. Toshihiko Yamasaki, Associate Professor of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in The University of Tokyo, was appointed as a technical advisor to AnyMind Group in April 2019. Yamasaki was also a visiting scientist at Cornell University for two years, and specializes in multimedia, computer vision and pattern recognition.

Company

Our Purpose

Make It ExcitingFor EveryoneTo Do Business.

Our Mission

Make Every Business Borderless

Our Values

Company Deck

CEO's Message

Leadership

Kosuke Sogo

Otohiko Kozutsumi

Keizo Okawa

Siwat Vilassakdanont

Tatum Ona Kembara

Hitoshi Maruyama

Ben Chien

Ryuji Takemoto

Koki Shibata

Punsak Limvatanayingyong

Rubeena Singh

Aditya Aima

Siddharth Kelkar

Takehiko Mizutani

Ted Kim

Lidyawati Aurelia

Nguyen Thi Ha My

Wing Lee

Lee Chin Chuan

Toh Yi Hui

Mayi Baviera

Rohit Sharma

Shohei Murata

Shogo Ikeuchi

Nao Kitazawa

Tomoyuki Oka

Our Advisors

Keisuke Honda

Yutaka Matsuo

Toshihiko Yamasaki

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Make It Exciting
For Everyone
To Do Business.