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John Colreto
John Corleto is a brand and design strategist now based in Tokyo, Japan. Previously he was a Senior Strategist at the global brand consultancy, FutureBrand. Leading and handling projects in Australia and across the Asia Pacific, he has helped create brand strategies, positionings, communications frameworks and new names and visual identities for large financial and health care institutions and tech-start-ups alike. Before this, he trained at design thinking and innovation consultancy, Second Road as well as was a guest-lecturer on the relationship between brand and entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney.
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Emma Waterman
Emma is a strategic thinker with a passion for brand building, storytelling and human behavior. With empathy and curiosity, she helps companies define problems, identify opportunities and realize change to bring meaningful value to their business and customers. She believes a strong strategic foundation is crucial to any brand’s success, particularly when reflected through a compelling visual and verbal identity. Continuing to expand her mind and skillset in her role at FutureBrand, a global brand transformation company who helps businesses grow, as and when times change. Here, she works with clients across a broad range of industries, including financial, healthcare, technology, professional services, travel & tourism, not-for-profit and more.
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Tom Piper
Tom manages Pure Marketing, a marketing strategy and support consulting firm, in South Burlington, VT.
Over 22 years of experience in brand management, consumer research, and strategic consulting. He has held senior positions at Bruegger’s Bagels, General Mills and Accenture, and has led strategy and marketing initiatives for dozens of companies including Keurig Dr. Pepper, Pete & Gerry’s Eggs, and Lake Champlain Chocolates.
He holds an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth and a BA in Marketing from the University of Washington. He has taught marketing at St. Michael’s College.
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Arisa Ueno
Born in VA, the US, raised in Fukuoka, Japan zand educated in Norway. She has built her expertise in branding marketing at early stage and Japan market entry business development at international tech companies such as Noom, Shopify and StockX as one of the founding members. Currently she has been engaging domestic and international companies as an independent advocate especially when they start up new business or enter new markets like Japan. She also works as a public speaker and has run entrepreneurship x career design workshops.
She also works as a public speaker and has run entrepreneurship x career design workshops.
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Zachary Lamb
Zach has worked as a brand strategist and consumer sociologist for the past 10 years. He has experience in many different categories working for brands like Target, Wal-Mart, Gatorade, Fiat Chrysler, Buffalo Wild Wings, Smash Burger, Associated Bank and Advanced Auto Parts. Before coming to brand strategy, He worked as a research sociologist. This background makes him highly skilled at uncovering the human problems that lie beneath business, marketing and brand problems. In his career, he has always been most passionate about working for small businesses and start-ups because he enjoys the excitement that comes from working closely with key stakeholders to define their brands and grow their businesses.
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Alex Odajima
As a business incubation expert, Alex has engaged in the creation of numerous start-ups and business divisions of large companies. Now CEO of his company EDGEof INNOVATION, he works with government entities of over 20 countries to support foreign startups enter the Japanese market. Providing mentorship for many global startup programs including Canadian Technology Accelerator or German Startup Accelerator, he is first a specialist of business strategy but also experienced in corporate identity strategy for early stage startups.
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Hiroto Hori
Hiroto is an international brand marketing leader with 20-years of proven track record of professional experience at best-in-class brands like Adidas, Levi's, Nike, LVMH, and Rakuten. Broader industrial knowledge with numerous achievements in business strategy, marketing, sports marketing, and branding as his expertise. Possess an innovative and creative mindset contributing to solid brand development and is always passionate about the brand. Recently, he has worked in a branding direction role in fashion, sports, media, sustainability, and the space industry, to name a few.
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