Shigeki Yamazaki

Shigeki Yamazaki

Representative Director, YAMAZAKI OFFICE INC.

After graduating from a law faculty in the humanities, he has worked at the center of data and AI — from financial-system operations to beside management.

Career

  1. 2002 – 2004

    ABIC Co., Ltd. (now NTT DATA ABIC Co., Ltd.)

    Project Manager, Systems Development Division (financial systems). Responsible for development and operation of core systems in the investment-trust field, and renewal of a securities-company core system (mainframe → Java + Oracle).

  2. 2004 – 2012

    Yahoo Japan Corporation (now LINE Yahoo Corporation)

    After developing membership and financial services, served as Technical Director / Head of Data Strategy in the Data Solutions Development Division. Built and operated a Hadoop platform of several hundred machines, and formulated and executed company-wide data strategy.

  3. 2012 – 2017

    Dentsu Inc.

    Technical Director / Chief Consultant, Data and Technology Center. Advanced business development through formulation and execution of company-wide data strategy, data-platform planning, and practical investment and alliance work with data and technology companies.

  4. 2017 – 2020

    Stripe International Inc.

    Executive Officer and Head of the Digital Transformation Division (established and led after the Data Utilization Promotion Office and Marketing Division). Led company-wide DX. Shortly after joining, led proof-of-concept implementation for an integrated data platform spanning POS, e-commerce, apps, and group companies in approximately two months.

  5. 2020 –

    YAMAZAKI OFFICE INC.

    Representative Director / External Executive Advisor. Supports decision-making and governance design for AI, DX, and data strategy directly under the CxOs of listed companies and holding companies.

Current areas of support (described by decision area rather than industry for confidentiality):Decision-making for customer and membership platforms spanning multiple businesses / evaluation and governance of AI and data utilization / design and turnaround of DX and specialist organizations / design of KPIs, investment, and approval hierarchies

Organizations supported range from listed companies and holding companies to startups.

Company overview

Legal name
YAMAZAKI OFFICE INC.
English name
YAMAZAKI OFFICE INC.
Founded
February 2020
Representative
Shigeki Yamazaki
Capital
JPY 5,000,000
URL
https://www.yamazaki-office.com

Qualifications and achievements

  • Patent No. 5095794, “Recommendation linkage apparatus and method thereof” (2012)
  • Runner-up, Tableau Viz Contest (2015, organized by Tableau Japan)
  • Contributor to Tableau Data Analysis: From Introduction to Practice (First Edition)

External activities and speaking

  • Chair, Treasure Data User Group (2015–2018)
  • Vice Chair, Tableau User Group (2014–2017)
  • Vice Chair, Planning Committee, Data Scientist Society of Japan (2014–2015)
  • Executive Committee Member, Data Business Creation Forum (2014)

Speaking: ad:tech, Publisher Summit, Tableau Conference, MBA lectures at Hosei University, and many other domestic and international conferences, industry events, and university lectures.

Management and governance

Management of organizations of up to approximately 70 people. Operational and governance experience as a departmental information-security officer. The side entrusted with numbers, and the side that protects them. Both have been done.

Areas of expertise

Management and business
Company-wide management strategy / M&A / KPI and investment-decision design
Data and AI
Data strategy / generative-AI utilization policy / CDP, DMP, and BI-platform planning
Customers and marketing
CRM / LTV maximization / OMO strategy
IT and product
IT-architecture planning / vendor management

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