He is a founder and CEO of the playknot. He has worked throughout area of planning and execution of marketing strategy for more than 10years.
Prior to establishment of playknot, he was at one of the largest advertising agency in Japan, Hakuhodo inc. He was responsible for marketing planning, media planning and content design for a variety of clients including daily necessities manufacture, beauty company, automotive manufacture, SNS platformer, and apparel company. Prior to that, he engaged overseas marketing at Toyota motor corporation that is largest company in Japan, where he was in charge of the US and Indonesian markets, working on market analysis, production planning and marketing strategy planning for those countries. Takuma received a bachelor’s degree from Hokkaido University. A dad who is balancing child care and business management.
His motto is “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning” – Albert Einstein

He founded playknot with Takuma believing potential and future of XR. Prior to establishing playknot, he was member of XR startup and engaged with marketing planning, business development utilizing XR for automobile manufacture, large retail company. Prior to that, he founded company in Mexico which he distributed Japanese TV programs to Mexico’s national broadcaster, TV Azteca and also served as a commercial producer for Japanese electronics company, Pioneer Corporation when they broadcasted commercial in Latin America. He started his career in Keyence that is one of the largest manufactures of automation sensors and machine vision systems in Japan. He was responsible for corporate sales and achieving higher result.
His motto is “If dogs run free, then why not we” – Bob Dylan

He is a expert for digital marketing especially area of media development. Prior to joining playknot, he was CMO of D2C Startup, TENTIAL. He oversaw marketing strategy/tactics, product development, CRM operation and contributed to rapid growth of the company from seed round to series A.
Prior to that, he experienced media growth from start-up to selling in variety of media channel, including You tube channel getting 10 million views per month and entertainment web media “Crazy” and other web media as well. At current , he is also working on digital marketing consulting for variety of clients including apparel company, entertainment company, food manufacturers, daily necessities  manufacture, human resources agency, wellness company, and tourism company.

He brings expertise on cutting-edge technology for AR/VR/MR development.
He has experienced area of XR development for more than 10years and has extensive knowledge on upstream to downstream in the system development including application development for various OS, server-side front-end and back end development, and UI/UX design.
He engaged with XR development for telecommunications companies, TV stations, construction company, major musical instrument manufacture.

In Accenture, he is responsible for management and brand strategy, marketing innovation, new business development, and service design.
He has a proven track record in a wide range of areas, including new business launches, organizational design/management, JV establishment, brand concept design, and tech seeds-driven product development. In the past, he has worked as an editor for a culture magazine, a planner for an advertising company, and a Japan Lead for a U.S. startup.