Management

Nobuhiro Seki
Nobuhiro (Nob) Seki
President and CEO
Nobuhiro (Nob) Seki, President and CEO, has led the acquisition of Movable Type and Six Apart brand in January 2011 from SAY Media, who acquired Six Apart in November 2010. Previously, he has been served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Japan at Six Apart from December 2003 to January 2011. Previously, he was engaged in business development at Nikkei Business Publications after serving as Staff Editor contributing to Nikkei Computer for several years. Seki graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.S. in Engineering and received an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Hajime Koga
Executive Corporate Officer and COO
Hajime Koga graduated from the School of Italian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He worked in sales for several major foreign-affliated software companies, including Lotus, IBM Japan's software division (head of business partner marketing) and Intuit. While he was a company executive (in charge of sales) at Intuit he took part in the 2003 MBO, and moved to an executive position (in charge of sales) at Yayoi Co., Ltd. He then came to Six Apart in 2004. He currently holds the position of Managing Executive Officer, and primarily oversees sales and marketing.

Jun Kaneko
Corporate Officer, Product Development
Jun Kaneko joined Six Apart KK in April 2005, and began as a TypePad product manager. In April 2008 he was given the position of corporate officer in charge of Six Apart KK's product development. Since April 2009 he has also taken on responsibility over worldwide development of Movable Type 5.0, and supervised everything from concept planning to spec decisions. In addition, from January 2010 he has been in charge of Six Apart KK's Movable Type business. His former job was at Sony, and he is also known as the developer of G-Tools, Amazon's affiliates service.

Masafumi Koizumi
Corporate Officer, Corporate Strategy & Business Operations
Masashi Koizumi worked in IBM Japan's Business Innovation Service and Distribution Strategy Group, providing a variety of consulting services involving strategy, business and systems. He later helped launch Dr. Ci:Labo's management strategy team, and with a mid-term management plan he has lead the company to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. From 2005 he spent several years in director positions at a number of venture capital companies, and came to his current post in January 2010. He has an MBA from the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine.

Ichiro Kiyota
Senior Director, Media Business
From 1995 to 2007, Ichiro Kiyota worked as a web director at Nifty and helped launch many services including "Cocolog," one of the first available Japanese blogging services. He joined Six Apart KK in November 2007. He launched blogs.com in 2009 and from 2010, as a Media Business Senior Director, has been involved in the planning and launch of Zenback and Sazanami. He manages the personal blog, "Kotori piyo piyo," and is a guest Editor-in-Chief for Gizmodo Japan.

Tsukasa Sugita
Senior Director, Business Development
As Six Apart's Senior Director of Business Development, Tsukasa is responsible for developing business with new and existing accounts as well as managing service business unit. Prior to joining Six Apart, he held a variety of positions in sales, engineering, product marketing and business development for such companies as Opera Software, Mitsui & Co., Openwave Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. Tsukasa holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

Board of Directors

Nobuhiro Seki (Director)
President and CEO of Six Apart's board of directors
Masaki Yamashita (Director)
General Manager, Net Service Dept.1, Net Business Division, Infocom Corporation
Hideki Makihara (Director)
General Manager, Corporate Finance & Accounting Office, Infocom Corporation
Hiroyuki Aihara (Corporate Auditor)
Full-time Auditor, Infocom Corporation