Motohiro Koma

Born in Osaka, 1979. After graduating from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Koma joined Yahoo Japan Corporation in 2002. As an engineer and data scientist, Koma was part of search engines development and product development using Machine Learning and Natural language processing before shifting to management. As the senior product manager in charge of search engines, he led a number of large projects. In 2012, Koma was appointed as the head of the data solution division and General Director and led organization building for company-wide data integration, business strategy development and execution. Later, he joined KDDI Corporation, then moved onto Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., in 2017, and served as Director of corporate data & AI strategies. In 2020, he became Executive Officer, the head of the data strategy division and President's Office Manager at FLYWHEEL, Inc. In September of the same year, Koma joined ABEJA, Inc., as President's Office Manager. He has been in the current position since December 2020. Formerly, he was a part-time lecturer at Waseda University and Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a part-time researcher at Kyoto University.