JD

ENTREPRENEUR

CEO, JD is a serial entrepreneur, author, entrepreneur coach, was a TV personality in Japan & CR, and built a number of technology startups from zero to hero.

Tri-lingual, he speaks fluent Japanese and has over 30 years experience in the Japanese market. He is an internet visionary having created numerous World firsts and pioneer in the internet and mobile markets. He developed Top 10 ranking social media apps, Winner of Red Herring Top 100 Europe award, and TechCrunch50 with startup meebee.

He played a key role in an internet startup that was acquired by a leading public technology company in 2002 for $40M.

JD has been an entrepreneur since childhood and is author of 2 business lifestyle & time management books.

Pre-internet days, as Assistant to General Manager, JD was instrumental in the SunMerry franchise chain's success to #1, and the global chain Mister Donut. He graduated from the World's only Donut University.

JD has been an advisor, mentor and judge for tech events such as StartupLive, Seedcamp, and Starcube.

JD presented at Vator, World VC Summit, World Business Alliance & SXSW.

MEDIA

TV personality in Japan, JD was a weekly regular on high-profile Japanese TV shows such as The TONIGHT Show, "JD's famous Japan" CNN Daybreak, and Waratte iitomo (Guinness World Record longest running comedy show), Chikyuu Marukajiri, Tondemo History, & major roles in TV ads TOYOTA, SONY, COCA-COLA.

He created a number of original popular edutaining TV shows for major Japanese TV networks and Czech TV.

JD had popular weekly magazine columns in Japan, regularly spoke at events, held seminars to large audiences, & MC of a number of World Championships. He also commentated the AFL football Grand Final live to Japan.

SKILLS

Problem solver, out-of-box thinker, fast-growth from idea to scale, results focused, vast int'l network, with a broad spectrum of business experience across various disciplines.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Author of 2 books, a record-breaking athlete, speaks 4 languages, and trained table-tennis for the Olympics at the infamous Waseda University in Tokyo.

JD established Sister-city & Sister-school relationships between Japan & Australia. He commentated the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony live to Japan on Bunka Hoso, and was a ping-pong ball away from making the Olympics in Table Tennis.

JD has had some crazy life experiences including climbing up Mt Fuji backwards and walked down barefoot in a rare Guinness Book of Records attempt.