I move fluidly between
high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

Y CombinatorStoryboarder / Sumugi — Founding PM → CEO

Founding PM turned CEO working across UX, roadmap, launch execution, and go-to-market.

Sumugi (formerly Storyboarder) is a Y Combinator-backed startup building 3D creator tools for visual storytellers. I owned the product end-to-end, from user discovery & research, Figma mockups, PRDs, QA, analytics to legal.

As CEO, I led us through launches with go-to-market strategies, hired and mentored the team, optimized work with AI and agents, made the high-stakes calls, and managed runway.

UX Research Product Design · Figma Data Analysis · SQL, Mixpanel AI Agents  Go-to-Market Strategy Delivery · Jira, GitHub

PwCPwC Deals Advisory Tokyo — Strategy & Analytics

Strategy, analytics, and cross-border execution inside complex organizations.

PwC Deals advises enterprises through M&A and other high-stakes transactions. I worked with clients and senior stakeholders across borders, in a rigorous, multi-team environment where every analysis had to hold up in the boardroom.

My work spanned M&A diligence, financial modeling, business analytics, and cross-border research into acquisition targets, and I sat on steering committees for initiatives at top-tier clients. High-stakes work, frequently at C-suite level.

Structured Problem-Solving Stakeholder Management Executive Communication · PowerPoint Financial Analysis · Excel Data Analysis · Tableau, Alteryx Workstream Management
PwC Deals service areas — valuations, transaction services, deal strategy, corporate finance, ESG, and more

Not just desk work. I also bring people together.

Trained and experienced in workshop design, event organization, and facilitation.

Bezi XR workshop — ran the “Portal Challenge” brief for XR creators in Japan
XR workshop in Japan — hands-on prototyping sessions I helped organize
Meta Tokyo — bridging Reality Labs and Japan’s developer community
A Taste of Home — refugee-led cooking workshops, backed by a $10K Davis Projects for Peace fellowship
A Taste of Home — facilitating a refugee-led cooking workshop in Tokyo
MIT Reality Hack — our team won the Meta award for a mixed-reality portal concept

Meta XR — MIT Reality Hack, Hackathon Japan & Meta Connect

Cross-border XR community building

Won the Meta award at MIT Reality Hack for a mixed-reality portal concept, organized my own XR workshop for beginners, and helped organize Meta's first XR hackathon in Japan. I bridged Reality Labs and local developers and eventually got to spoke at Meta Connect on lifestyle MR/VR experiences！

XR Strategy Hackathon Organization Developer Relations Public Speaking

What Design Can DoWhat Design Can Do Tokyo

Turning a complex urban waste problem into an actionable design brief.

Led research for the Tokyo brief of an international design challenge on waste, combining policy research, expert interviews, and a cross-sector workshop to surface local context and inspire 60+ proposals with our stakeholders.

Workshop Design Expert Interviews Policy Research

Davis Projects for PeaceA Taste of Home — $10K Davis Projects for Peace

Designing refugee-led urban programming through food, trust, and place.

Designed and facilitated refugee-led cooking workshops in Tokyo with a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace fellowship, using food as a medium for urban programming, placemaking, and cross-cultural exchange.

Workshop DesignEvent Organization FacilitationMarketing
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