Tetsuro Kiyooka ( ja, 清岡哲朗, ''Kiyooka Tetsuro'', 30 July 1970) is a Japanese

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and former

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Players' Agent ( Sports agent). Kiyooka is the founder and CEO of SpecTip. He holds

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. His ancestors are the

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Tosa Province was a province of Japan in the area of southern Shikoku. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tosa''" in . Tosa bordered on Awa to the northeast, and Iyo to the northwest. Its abbreviated form name was . In terms of the Gokishichidō syste ...

, Japan, and he is a distant relative of

Roy Kiyooka Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (January 18, 1926January 8, 1994) was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher, and multi-media artist. Biography A Nisei, or a second generation Japanese Canadian, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw, Saskat ...

SpecTip

In 2016, Kiyooka established SpecTip in

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, Canada, and began the process of developing an

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with no

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. He was inspired to create an interactive online platform where users, including content creators and viewers, could share their creative content and express their appreciation. His statement reads, “SpecTip was born at the crosslines of technology and integrity. I don't believe in advertisements and price tags on the internet. So, I created this business model in which users have the freedom to pay tips spontaneously when and if they choose”.

Tip Rewards Patent

Kiyooka applied for multiple

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to the

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with the PCT international application in 2018, 2019 and 2020 of the new business model for an

. The patents were granted in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and

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and JPO have granted multiple patents since then. The patent is called “Tip Reward Patent,” which defines Rewards that motivate users to

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and encourage them to pay it permanently, and Rewards on the internet (also known as a bonus) as something that money cannot buy.

Sports agent

In 2006, he passed the FIFA Players' Agent exam and registered with

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(England), the

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(Netherlands) and the

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as an official agent. After that, he represented top Japanese players such as

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and led them to the football clubs in European leagues.

Japan Pro-Footballers Association (JPFA)

In 2009, Kiyooka was designated as a

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of the

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(JPFA, ja) by

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, a

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of the board. He repealed the unfair transfer regulations between the clubs of J.League and the professional players in 2009 and formed the organization as a trade union in 2011. Also, he represented the players of the

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to protect their rights and payments.

Web development

In 2005, Kiyooka collaborated with

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to create a football site called Nippon World Soccer on mobile internet services (

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) in Japan. The mobile football site acquired over one million users a month in 2006 and became the biggest football mobile site in Japan at that time.

References

External links

The Japan Pro-Footballers Association
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Chief operating officers 1970 births Living people