is a Japanese software entrepreneur. Takasuka founded

Cybozu is a Tokyo-based software company that provides web-based groupware services including Cybozu Office and kintone. In addition to the main office in Tokyo, Cybozu also has offices in Matsuyama and Osaka, as well as several overseas subsidiaries i ...

, one of Japan's first Web-based groupware products. In 1997 with a $200,000 loan and two partners, Takasuka left his position as Vice President of

Matsushita Electric Works is a Japanese company specializing in the production of industrial devices. It can trace its beginnings to a firm that was founded in 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita. Matsushita began making the flashlight components for bicycles, then progressed to ...

V-Internet Operations in

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

, Japan for the small city of Matsuyama, where he went to work developing Cybozu. Japanese for "cyber-kid", Cybozu held an

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...

(IPO) within three years. In April 2005 Takasuka resigned his position as President and CEO at

, and in January 2006 founded LUNARR, Inc. with his business partner,

Hideshi Hamaguchi is a Japanese concept creator and strategist in the business field. Hamaguchi is also called a business designer or an innovation designer. He is considered a leading mind in creative concept development, strategy-building and decision manageme ...

in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. He currently lives in

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

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and

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Personal history

Born (1966, Matsuyama, Ehime,

)LUNARR - Create. Flip. Share

Education

1990, B.S. in

Engineering Management Engineering management is the application of the practice of management to the practice of engineering. Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving ability of engineering and the organizational, admini ...

Hiroshima Institute of Technology is a private university in Saeki-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. It was established by Tsuru Gakuen (founded by Noboru Tsuru) in 1961 as a two-year college, and became a four-year university in 1963, taking its present name. The university has faculties ...

Professional

Joins

in 1990 in client-server networking and R&D. In 1994, develops Japan's first corporate

Intranet An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders. The term is used in c ...

with

. In 1996, becomes Vice President/Director, V-Internet Operations Matsushita Electric Works, an in-house venture company he helped create.

External links

about.lunarr.com * :ja:LUNARR Wikipedia.org Japanese

The Oregonian Article

References

1966 births Living people Japanese chief executives People from Matsuyama, Ehime {{Japan-business-bio-stub