Allison Baum
Fresco Capital, Managing Director Allison Baum is a Managing Director of Fresco Capital and is involved in all aspects of investment and operations with a specific focus on the education technology sector. Previously, as Regional Director of Asia at General Assembly, she established and grew the company’s first education programs for technology, business and design in Hong Kong. She originally joined the company during its early stages in New York where she developed and scaled their first long-form part-time and immersive courses. Throughout this process, Allison has worked with startups of all sizes across New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Allison earned a B.A. in Economics and a Secondary Degree in Film Studies from Harvard University. She worked in Equity Derivatives Sales & Trading at Goldman Sachs in New York and as an Associate Producer for the Microlending Film Project, a documentary about micro finance for women around the world. |
Yusuke Sugomori
Creative Technologist & Deep Learning Specialist Yusuke Sugomori is a creative technologist with a background in information engineering. When he was a graduate school student, he co-founded Gunosy with his colleagues, which uses machine learning and web-based data mining to determine individual users' respective interests and provides an optimized selection of daily news items based on those interests. The company has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since April 28, 2015. In 2013 he joined Dentsu, the largest advertising company based on non-consolidated gross profit in 2014 established in Japan, where he accomplished a wide variety of digital advertising including smartphone app development and big data analysis. In April 2016, he joins a medical startup as co-founder and lead engineer. Author of 'Deep Learning with Java' from Packt Publishing. |
Goichiro Arai
Co-Founder & CEO - Arcterus Co., Ltd. Goichiro Arai is a founder and CEO of Arcterus Co., Ltd. In 2010, Arcterus was founded to explore the potential of the world by providing highly personalized learning experience. Arcterus leverages big data technology, dynamics of social network, and theory and expertise of adaptive learning to provide three products including “Clear", “Caiz”, and its own tutor school “Shikigakuin”. Caiz teaches both tutors and students how to optimize study time by defining the learning styles of students. With Clear, a GitHub of study notebooks, students who have completed their studies can upload their notebooks so other users can view them and learn how successful studiers excelled on their university entrance exams. |
Per Johan Glorand
Wikia Japan, Director of Engineering Per is Director of Engineering at Wikia Japan. Wikia is a free wiki hosting service, and is home to several large and active fan communities covering a broad range of pop culture, movies, television, games etc. Per's background is as an embedded systems engineer, he was previously with Opera Software, where he worked on porting Opera to various mobile and embedded platforms such as television and gaming systems. Originally from Norway, he has been based in Tokyo for the last 10 years. |