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Yasushi FunakoshiCEO

After leaving a major telecommunications company, he entered the creative field, which had always been his dream.Since 2008, he has been trying to utilise the potential of creators outside of the existing market. He has achieved success in all scenes and established several corporations that handle various content production, advertising services, and service development, from hardware to games, animation, films, and so on.In 2018, he established HIKKY, which specializes in the metaverse business, and has been organizing the Virtual Market, which has been visited by more than 1.3 million people, setting a Guinness World Record™.Based on the industryʼs largest number of companiesʼ metaverse commercialization achievements, provides metaverse solutions such as market entry consulting, VR space content production, and real-life linked service development. Also provides Vket Cloud, a completely original metaverse development service that runs on a web browser.

Ryoichi KidaCOO

Graduated from the Faculty of Science, master course of Kyoto University. As an illustrator “Kurogin”, is also involved in the character and mechanical design for various anime and game titles. In 2018, he joined HIKKY. With both creative senses and logical thinking, he is the general management of business and services.

Mika SawaeCOO/CQO (Chief Quality Officer)

Mika changed her career from professional hair and makeup artist to an illustrator. Through event planning and management, which has been her forte since her student days, she has connected with many creators and communities and has continued to create multi-content. Through the development of smartphone games and promotional work for Walt Disney and other companies, Mika became an art director and created many hit contents. She is responsible for the entire creative process of HIKKY, which started working in the VR space at the end of 2017. She is a mother of two, and her daughter recognizes the avatar used by her mother as her mother as well.

Phio The Moving CastleCVO (Chief Virtual Officer)

Phio is the founder of Virtual Market (Vket), the worldʼs largest VR event. After working for a major advertising agency and an entertainment venture company, in February 2018, he discovered the possibilities of living in VR space and started working in avatar form. Currently working as a producer responsible for Vketʼs worldview and concept design, etc., he advocates a future that establishes a living and economic sphere in VR space and published "Metaverse Revolution: How to Create a Virtual Economic Sphere" in 2022.

Yudai SenooCTO

Senoo has been working as a programmer at a well-established game company since he was 19 years old, developing in-house game engines and compilers for PC games, and has been involved in the release of more than 70 games. He joined HIKKY in September 2020 and is currently leading the development of the proprietary metaverse service "Vket Cloud".

Sumiko MushaCSO

Musha joined HIKKY in 2020 and is responsible for the planning and promotion of management philosophy and business strategy, new business development, organization and system building, and the foundation of the business. She is committed to building businesses based on an original value standard that balances creativity and business potential, and to creating a working environment that will enable the company to grow.