final aim

Former COO of Kabuku Inc. in Japan, which succeeded in being acquired by a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Sept 2017. Previously, Masafumi lived in Singapore for 3 years as a Managing Director. His first career was at Mizuho Bank, Ltd., and Recruit Co., Ltd (formerly Recruit Career). Currently, he is also a Venture Partner of UTEC (The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd).

Raised in Australia, he started his industrial designer career at Nikon Corporation. As an initial founding member, he then joined an additive manufacturing startup, Kabuku, Inc. After the startup's M&A, he co-founded Final Aim, Inc. He has collaborated by design with numerous clients such Toyota, Honda, Sony, Panasonic, Softbank, Microsoft, and Autodesk. Received multiple international design awards such as iF Design Award, Red Dot Design Award, Good Design Award, etc.