About TechShake

Kotaro Adachi is a Japanese entrepreneur based in the Philippines for over 12 years. He is currently involved in the management of several companies, including TechShake, AXIS Software Development, and Global Bridge Resources. Also, he is co-organizer of the IGNITE Conference, which is the biggest innovation conference based in the Philippines. Kotaro attained his MBA from IE Business School in Spain.

Fatima is entrepreneur in the emerging Philippine startup industry where she has been active for more than 4 years. Her expertise is operations and user experience design. She is continuously exploring different facets of what it takes to build your own successful business.

Paolo Rentero always brings out the entrepreneurial spirit in any startup team. A serial entrepreneur himself, he is the co-founder of the startup media company TechShake, Head of Business Development and Partnerships of Digiteer, a software development company, and a founding member of the Innovation Design firm, Vessel Group. He advises teams on how to start running, hire the right people, and create the best team culture for the growth of a company.

Gerry heads retail digital for one of the largest banks in the Philippines. Prior to her current role, she built fashion and lifestyle brands in New York. Since 2015, she has worked with local startups to define business models and go-to-market strategies. In particular, she specializes in accelerating customer growth for non-linear verticals through a systematic, sustainable approach to customer acquisition and retention. At TechShake, she works with startups on strategy development and investment advisory; key to solving growth problems across a range of business models.

Kazuo has been in Dentsu for over 18 years with his dimensionalized capability across the communication field. Over the years, he has worked for lots of global brands which was originated in Japan such as Toyota, Kao, SONY, Canon, Asahi, Unicharm, helping those brands to drive their business locally and globally by traditional and non-traditional agency services.

After his role as Executive Director of dentsu X Philippines, he is now a Managing Director of dentsu X Thailand, a No.1 integrated agency combining best-in-class communication and media services, content creation, technology, data and behavioral insights.

Kazuo plans to make his company unique by having a platform that will differentiate themselves from other networks and agencies. One of the units is dXLab, an innovation unit to accelerate the development of Thailand and regional start-ups and harness new global technology to build new experiences connecting people and brands. And dX Commerce to provide an end-to-end solutions related to the e-commerce business of the clients.

Noriyasu is a Japanese serial entrepreneur. He co-founded Officebusters Co., Ltd, which is now the biggest office product supplier in Japan with annual revenue of US$120M. He is involved in the management of various companies, including Active and Companies, Kyoen(Venture Capital), WILLs(former Director, TSE:4482), Tsunagu, AXIS, and GBR.

Ikuo is a Japanese Serial Entrepreneur and running seed-focused funds. Co-founded several startups, including WebCrew which went public in 2004, and Interscope which was successfully acquired by Yahoo! Japan in 2007. In 2012, co-founded SunBridge Global Ventures, a seed-early stage focused VC and its portfolio spreads into the US and Europe in addition to Japan. His current portfolio includes such as AnyRoad, an “a16z backed” startup based in San Francisco, Infarm, a Vertical Farming Unicorn in Europe, and Peatix, a community management platform that

Yutaka is a seasoned entrepreneur and business development expert in the arena of marketing, advertising, BPO, and business alliances in general. Yutaka started to work for Dentsu and served as a media planner, account executive, and corporate strategist. After 13 years with Dentsu, Yutaka moved to Trans-Cosmos, the largest BPO operator in Asia, and served as the Director of SOUTH EAST ASIA Business Development. He opened operations in Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand. In 2009, he left the BPO industry and established his research and consulting company. Ever since he has been running his firm that supports Japanese and international firms in their cross-border business developments. He is also an active advisor and consultant for many startups in Japan and in Asia. Yutaka holds BA from Waseda University (Japan) and EMBA from INSEAD.