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Born in Kobe, Hyogo in 1988. He worked at Kawasaki Heavy Industries before entering Kindai University. After graduating he worked in corporate sales and business development at Nomura Securities, CyberAgent and Salesforce Japan.

He became Representative Director and CEO of H.R.I in 2020, leading the growth of the business and the organisation, and the company joined the Dirbato group through an M&A in 2022.

In 2023 he co-founded commissure with Arata Horie. He now works on bringing physical AI into real use through on-site data capture, haptics and robot deployment.

Since 2026 he has been enrolled in the doctoral programme at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD), and also works as an entrepreneur in residence on commercialising and deploying university-born technology.

Born in Fukushima in 1993. PhD in Engineering. At the Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, the University of Tokyo, he led research on haptic display grounded in an understanding of embodiment, as well as joint research with industry. After a JSPS DC2 fellowship he carried the work forward as principal investigator on JST ACT-X. He was appointed Project Assistant Professor at RCAST, the University of Tokyo, and in January 2023 founded commissure with Masaki Mizohashi, where he serves as Representative Director and CTO. He is also Project Senior Assistant Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, where he leads research projects. Working from the engineering of embodiment and touch, he pursues research, development and deployment in the field of physical AI.

Joined Salesforce Japan in 2017. At en Japan he launched pasture (now freee freelance management), a freelance management tool built on his own experience of contract work; the business was later transferred to freee. He joined commissure as COO.

Born in 1995. Founded NEXTLIFE in the reuse industry in 2019, working across business strategy, sales, organisation building and management. Joined a new-business development consultancy in 2021, leading M&A strategy and execution for listed companies, a post-merger integration on the scale of ten billion yen, and several new ventures; as Head of the President’s Office and of the Sales Division, drove the execution of corporate strategy and the growth of the business. Now Vice President at commissure, leading business development in the physical AI field as a whole: business strategy, customer and use-case development, alliances and fundraising. Works to connect technology with the industrial floor, bringing physical AI into commercial use and real deployment.

PhD in Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. After positions at the University of Electro-Communications and Keio University, he has held his current post since 2016. His interests lie in JIZAI body technology, human augmentation engineering and entertainment engineering. His awards include TIME magazine’s Coolest Invention of the Year and the Young Scientists’ Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT. He also serves as co-representative of the Superhuman Sports Society and as a director of the Information Processing Society of Japan and of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, among other roles.

Born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa in 2000. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Senshu University, then spent two years at a restaurant built around rice, taking part in making rice-paddy art alongside cooking and serving customers. Later joined Clafit Consulting, a group company, and joined commissure as Executive Assistant in 2025.

Entered Natural Sciences I at the University of Tokyo in 2023, and spent two years learning 3D technology. He specialises in VR development in Unity and works across the breadth of 3D software, from modelling to compute shaders.

Advanced to the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 2025. He designs real-time rendered visuals and the tools used to make them, and his strength is multimedia expression that grows out of those tools. He handles staging and technical development for events both physical and virtual, and builds hardware for people working in production. Selected for Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2026.