Takuto has started his career as an entrepreneur in 1996. He built a several startup companies which ran web production, data-center, e-commerce, and on-line game publishing and operation business. Since then he has been building up his experiences for 17 years in wide ranges in B2B, B2C, IT and Digital Media industries. Takuto joined App Annie in March 2014 as a Business Development Manager, and promoted to be a Country Director Japan in October 2014. App Annie is the largest mobile app intelligence platform, providing developers and publishers with a 360-degree view. App Annie is used by more than 700,000 apps to track their performance, and over 400,000 mobile app professionals — including 94 percent of the top 100 publishers — rely on App Annie to inform their business decisions.