Yusuke Asakura

Yusuke Asakura is a Visiting Scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.  He is also co-founder of Tokyo Founders Fund, an angel network composed of eight entrepreneurs, which invests in pre-seed and seed stage startup companies globally.

Prior to coming to the US, Asakaura was the CEO of mixi, a public company which runs the largest Social Networking Service in Japan.  At mixi, he led turnaround strategy by diversification of its business and increased its market cap from $200M to $4B in one year.

Prior to mixi, he was the founder and CEO of mobile tech startup, Naked Technology.  The company was acquired by mixi in 2011.

Asakura earned his bachelors degree in Law from the University of Tokyo in 2007.