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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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):
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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