is a Japanese entrepreneur, and the former

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

DeNA Co., Ltd. Dena (in Luri and fa, ) is the name for a sub-range within the Zagros Mountains, Iran. Mount Dena, with length and average width, is situated on the boundary of the Isfahan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Provin ...

She is Vice-Chair of the Japan Business Federation. In 1999 she founded DeNA, one of Japan's largest mobile social network and mobile game companies. She transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairman of DeNA in 2011 to focus on her family and personal life. In 2021, she was appointed Vice-Chair of the Japan Business Foundation to become the first woman in the post in its 75-year history. Namba received an MBA from

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and was the third Japanese woman to become a partner at McKinsey & Co. She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's

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while she was a consultant at McKinsey.

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External links

Tomoko Namba's Official Blog "DNA of DeNA"
( Ameba Blog) * 1962 births DeNA Living people McKinsey & Company people Tsuda University alumni Harvard Business School alumni {{japan-business-bio-stub