Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo
Speaker - Kei Shibata

"Kei Shibata, CEO & President of Venture Republic Inc. "

Kei Shibata has over eleven years of marketing and problem solving experience in internet e-Commerce and business development. He last served as the Head of eBusiness Initiatives for Lawson Project Management Department in the Consumer Business Division for multi-billion trading and investment firm, Mitsubishi Corporation.

Among the number of projects he led includes the Mobile e-Kiosk, which was later launched in October 2000 as iConvenience Corporation, $20 million mobile commerce joint venture between NTT DoCoMo Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Lawson Inc. and Mitsubishi Corporation.

Kei's career includes management roles at Mitsubishi Corporation and business development at Network Commerce Inc. (NASDAQ: NWKC Formerly known as ShopNow.com and The Internet Mall Inc.) in CA, United States. Kei earned a B.A. degree in law from Keio University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

As an eMarketing company, Venture Republic Inc. (http://www.vrg.jp/) provides various marketing solutions to businesses through Internet-enabled market research and through the incubation of vertical portals used in building efficient marketing channels. Here are two of Venture Replublic's popular portals:
• PASOconeco (URL:www.coneco.net) - aggregates latest sales information from over 100 EC merchants and service providers in the industry to serve millions of technology savvy buyers in Japan.
• travel.co.jp - designed to provide a comprehensive marketing solution for travel agents and businesses through the development and integration of Web-based reservation system and its operation of own website.

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