After graduating from the Law Department of Waseda University, he worked at the Tokyo Financial Exchange, where he was involved in negotiations with the authorities regarding corporate sales of derivatives and rule revisions. He then spent 5 years as Head of Compliance at a Japanese licensed virtual currency exchange, including FXcoin, where he participated in several virtual currency projects. In 2022 he joined Hyperithm as CSO, a private digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul, targeting institutional and high-end private investors. In April 2022, it launched its Web3 Fund to invest in seed-round projects in the Web3 industry. To date, the fund has invested in approximately 50 projects.