Akinari Okuda

Akinari Okuda is a Business Development Manager at BASE, Inc. since November 2020, specializing in cross-border e-commerce and product ownership. Responsibilities include strategy formulation, new service development, and business expansion through M&A activities. Akinari has successfully launched services like the Overseas Sales Agency App and China Sales Agency App, and facilitated the acquisition of want.jp. Prior to BASE, Akinari worked at Rakuten in various roles, including Business Planner for Rakuten TV, where Akinari focused on building operational structures and standardizing product development processes, and as a New Service Planner for Rakuten Bank, leading multiple significant service development projects. Akinari holds a Bachelor of Arts in Oriental History from Osaka University and studied as a Special Student at the University of the Philippines.