Meet Japan’s 9 Top COO’s in the Cryptocurrency Startup Space

At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

This list showcases the top Japan based COO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].

The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:

Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Hirokatsu Ohigashi

Director COO of CAMPFIRE

Joined GMO Internet in 2002. After becoming Director of Access Business Headquarters, Director of Domain Business Headquarters, and General Manager of IxP Business Headquarters, established GMO Domain Registry in 2009 and became Managing Director of the Company. In 2013, he participated in business such as WebContents, news media data analysis, and WebContents optimization using machine learning. Joined CAMPFIRE in 2018 and was responsible for promoting overseas business and promoting Alliance business as the cross-border business manager. He was appointed Chimera Director since 2019. March 2019 appointed CAMPFIRE Director COO and oversee overseas business strategy, CAMPFIRE business, and financial business as head of business promotion.

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About CAMPFIRE, GoodMorning: CAMPFIRE engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.

Seth Melamed

Chief Operating Officer of Liquid Global

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About Liquid Global: Liquid Global is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to provide liquidity to the crypto economy.

Yu Numazaki

Director COO / founder of CoinJinja

Focused on driving growth for CoinJinja.com, a top ICO search engine, and CoinView, the world’s best all-in-one cryptocurrency portfolio management app available for iOS and Android.

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About CoinJinja: Japan’s top crypto media: CoinJinja.com (ICO listing site) and CoinView (free, all-in-one crypto investment portfolio management app).

Takahito Kagami

Director COO of CoinPost

Takahito Kagami is the Director COO and Editor-in-Chief of CoinPost.

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About CoinPost: CoinPost is the Japanese cryptocurrency & blockchain media platform.

Hitoshi Takeshi

Director COO of BITPoint Japan

Hitoshi Takeshi built a financial base at Aozora Bank (formerly Nihon Bond Bank) and engaged in a wide range of venture and acquisition investments at ITX (formerly Nissho Iwai’s IT business investment company). After that, he was involved in IT company management and gained knowledge in both finance and business company management.

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About BITPoint Japan: BITPoint Japan is a compliant digital asset trading platform that offers virtual currency exchange.