14th Floor, Roppongi T-Cube,
3-1-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
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Our History
XICA is a data science company, consistently providing data analysis solutions since its establishment in 2012.
XICA Leadership
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President & CEO
Yoshiaki Hirao
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Executive Vice President & COO
Masakazu Yano
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CFO
Masaru Sugiyama
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EVP of Development
Futoshi Koresawa
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External Director
Akira Kurabayashi
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External Director
Heizou Takenaka
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External Director
Takafumi Murakami
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full-time ASBM
Tomoko Aramaki
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Executive Officer & CTO
Taichi Amano
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Executive Officer
Masaomi Takagi
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Executive Officer
Masaki Mikami
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Executive Officer & CRO
Kenta Murata
Our Origins
Our company name XICA reads as "sa-i-ka," a homonym to a Japanese word for emerging and blooming talent.
The XICA logo consists of a logomark depicting blooming talent and a logotype symbolizing data science. Together, they represent our passion for supporting all human creativity through the power of data.
The logomark expressing an emerging talent fuses the letters X and I, together read as "sai = talent" in Japanese, using colors representing RGB and CMYK, the foundation of every creation and expression. It symbolizes blossoming talent of all kinds.
Corporate Overview
| Name | XICA Co., Ltd. |
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| Founded | Feb. 2012 |
| Representative Director | Yoshiaki Hirao |
| Board Members |
Director Masakazu Yano Director Masaru Sugiyama Director Futoshi Koresawa External Director: Akira Kurabayashi External Director: Heizou Takenaka External Director: Takafumi Murakami full-time ASBM: Tomoko Aramaki Audit & Supervisory Board Member: Setsuo Higuchi Audit & Supervisory BoardMember: Masahiko Ishida |
| Stock Holders |
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| Office | 14th Floor, Roppongi T-Cube, 3-1-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Zip: 106-0032 |
| Phone | 03-6380-9897 (Contact form here） |
| Business Details |
Product development, Consultation services |
Access
14th Floor, Roppongi T-Cube,
3-1-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
03-6380-9897
- Directly connected to Roppongi-itchome Station
- 6 min. walk from Tokyo Metro Roppongi Station
- 6 min. walk from Tokyo Metro Tameike-sanno Station
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President & CEO
Yoshiaki Hirao
A graduate of Keio University, Faculty of Policy Management. Yoshiaki witnessed the banruptcy of his father's company, and this drove him to discover the potential of management support through statistical analysis in university. He founded XICA Co., Ltd. in February 2012. Based on his background in statistics and economics, he has provided extensive marketing consulting services to a number of major clients, and he has served as a product owner in the development of various products at XICA.
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Executive Vice President & COO
Masakazu Yano
Masakazu started his career at Goldman Sachs as an equity sales trader. He joined XICA in January 2018 after working in marketing and new business development at DeNA, served as COO at a skill-sharing CtoC service venture, and executed projects in business strategy, alliances, new business development, and promotion at Recruit Co., Ltd. He was appointed Executive Officer & COO of XICA in April 2018. After serving as COO and head of business, he has been appointed to his current Executive Vice President & COO Role in November 2022.
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CFO
Masaru Sugiyama
After graduating from Waseda University in 2010, Masaru joined Goldman Sachs. Masaru has extensive experience as a lead analyst in investment research in the Internet, game, broadcasting/advertising, and consumer electronics sectors. Starting 2016, he served as Vice President of Goldman Sachs' Investment Research Department. In June 2020, he joined XICA as Executive Officer and CFO/Head of Administration.
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EVP of Development
Futoshi Koresawa
Since starting his career as an IT engineer in 2000, he has served as Tech Lead, CTO, and VPoE at 12 companies including Tose Corporation, CA Mobile, ALBERT, Speee, Mercari, etc. Futoshi joined XICA in January 2020. After serving as CTO, he became Director and EVP of Development in April 2022. He also serves as CEO of Cross Garage, LLC, and is an advisor to several companies on technology, organization, and products.
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External Director
Akira Kurabayashi
After successfully leading venture capital initiatives at Fujitsu Limited and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in Japan and the U.S., he served as Head of Investment at Globespan Capital Partners and Salesforce.com in Japan. He joined Draper Nexus Venture Partners in March 2015 and was appointed as Managing Director. He holds a doctorate from Doshisha University and is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business Administration at the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed external director to XICA in May 2015.
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External Director
Heizou Takenaka
Born in Wakayama Prefecture in 1951. Professor emeritus at Keio University. Doctorate in Economics. After graduating from Hitotsubashi University with a bachelor's degree in economics, he joined the Japan Development Bank in 1973. Upon his resignation in 1981, he served as a visiting associate professor at Harvard University and as a professor at Keio University's Faculty of Policy Studies. He was appointed Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy in the Koizumi Cabinet in 2001 and has since served as Minister of State for Financial Affairs, Minister of State for Postal Privatization, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, etc. In 2004, he was elected to the House of Councilors. In September 2006, he resigned from the House of Councillors and retired from politics. He has also served as Research Advisor to the Japan Center for Economic Research, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Academy Hills, Chairman of the Board of Pasona Group, External Director of Orix Corporation, Independent External Director of SBI Holdings, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the World Economic Forum (Davos Forum).
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External Director
Takafumi Murakami
Born in Hyogo Prefecture. Takafumi experienced small satellite development, autonomous satellite control, and orbital engineering at the University of Tokyo. After attending graduate school at the University of Tokyo, he worked at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (now JAXA), where he was in charge of fundamental research on Hayabusa, IKAROS, and other satellites. After joining Goldman Sachs, he worked in the investment banking divisions of Tokyo and London, where he was involved in the management and strategic transformation of a number of global companies in Japan, Europe, the U.S., and emerging countries, etc. As the head of the IT industry section, he was involved in a number of investment, M&A, and fundraising projects in a wide range of technology-related industries. Since founding Signifian Inc., he has been in management positions for both unlisted and post-IPO startups as director, advisor, and investor. He founded THE FUND, the first independent growth capital firm in Japan. He has invested in many promising startups that have the potential to contribute to the future of this society. He specializes in corporate management, finance, governance, and ESG/SDGs. He is the author of "The Sustainable of Capitalism."
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full-time ASBM
Tomoko Aramaki
After passing the second CPA examination, she joined Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (now ABeam Consulting), where she was involved in accounting system development work in a core system development project. She then joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, where she was involved in accounting audits, risk management, and monitoring. She has been a full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member (ASBM) of XICA since June 2022.
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Executive Officer & CTO
Taichi Amano
Taichi joined FICC Corporation as a software engineer and worked on various system development projects. He then worked as a development team leader at Laksul Corporation, and as a lead engineer, SRE, and engineering manager at Speee Corporation. He joined XICA in 2020 as CTO Office Manager, and was appointed CTO in April 2022.
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Executive Officer,
VP of MarketingMasaomi Takagi
Masaomi joined Keyence Corporation, where he worked for a major transportation manufacturer in sales of factory automation equipment. He then furthered his career in advertising sales at GREE, Inc. where as a senior manager of the marketing department, he was consistently responsible for marketing practices from research and planning to execution and analysis.
He joined XICA in July 2018 as Deputy General Manager of CS, and after concurrently serving as General Manager of Sales and MK, he became Manager of the MAGELLAN Division before assuming the position of Executive Officer in April 2022. -
Executive Officer
Masaki Mikami
Masaki joined Hakuhodo in 1982. After working in the IT division and the business/promotion domain, he was involved in the establishment of “Hakuhodo Dennotai”, the first dedicated Internet organization for a Japanese advertising company in 1996. Since then, he has been leading the digital field, practicing integrated marketing and data-driven marketing, etc.
He was appointed Executive Officer of Hakuhodo in 2010, and Executive Officer in charge of i-media domain of Hakuhodo DY Media Partners in 2011.
Since 2016, he concurrently serves as Managing Executive Officer of Hakuhodo and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners. In 2018, he was appointed Managing Executive Officer, CISO and in charge of the Innovation Center at Hakuhodo DY Media Partners.
He was also a member of the juror at the "Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity" in the Media Lions in 2013 and in the Innovation category in 2016. -
Executive Officer & CRO
Kenta Murata
Kenta started developing Kondara MNU/Linux as a student, and participated in the development of several OSS. After completing his doctoral studies at Hokkaido University, he became a Ruby committer in 2010, improving and maintaining Ruby's numeric-related features, such as built-in numeric classes and the bigdecimal library. In 2017, he joined Speee Inc. as a full-time OSS developer, working on data processing tools for Ruby such as pycall.rb and Charty. He has also been working as a committer for Apache Arrow since 2019. He first joined XICA as an advisor in the data science field, and became CRO in 2022.
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Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Director, Institute for Economic Studies, Keio UniversityTakahiro Hoshino
Received his doctorate in Economics and Philosophy in March 2004 from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. After working at the Research Organization of Information and Systems' Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and the Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, he became a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is the President of the Behavioral Economics Association of Japan. He is also a board member of the Japan Institute of Marketing Science. He is also the leader of the team applying AI to economic and management research at the RIKEN AIP Center, a leading research institute for AI research in Japan. He has conducted basic research in statistics, econometrics, and psychology, and applied research in various fields such as marketing, brain science, and public health.