Kazuhisa Takahashi
Co Founder & CEO at tripla Co., Ltd.- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Japanese Native or bilingual proficiency
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Bio
Credentials
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IT Passport
IPA: Information-technology Promotion Agency, JapanAug, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Certified General Travel Services Manager
Japan Association of Travel AgentsNov, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
GMAT Score 660
Graduate Management Admission Council™ (GMAC™)Dec, 2001- Sep, 2024 -
TOEFL CBT Score 270
ETSDec, 2001- Sep, 2024
Experience
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tripla Co., Ltd.
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Japan
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co Founder & CEO
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Sep 2015 - Present
- Driving the fast growing hospitality IT company by creating new services, hiring and developing people (85), and acquiring clients. - Produced vertical IT services to hospitality industry; tripla Bot (AI Chatbot), tripla Book (Hotel Booking Engine), tripla Connect (CRM & Marketing Automation), tripla Pay (QR code payment). - Always took market-in methodology to improve these service quality. - Financial planning and achieved IPO in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. - Developed diversity culture as a company with +20 country originated employees. - Developed Taiwan and Korea branch and expands the service penetration in international market Show less
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The Coca-Cola Company
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Group Manager, Online Channel, Commercial Leadership Shopper Marketing
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May 2015 - Jan 2016
• Researched all of beverage industry online business situation by working with Atlanta HQ and Asia Pacific HQ team members • Built up Coca-Cola online business goal, strategy and action plan including the best class organization structure from white paper. • Hired and managed Senior Managers internally and managed key business partners (CCEJ, CCW and Hokkaido Coke 20 contact people) • Introduced e-commerce infrastructure (web marketing, KPI, pricing, product information) to start up online business and prepared data feed mechanism with key business players (Amazon, Rakuten, Yahoo Shopping) Show less
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Amazon
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Bangladesh
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Manager, Shoes and Bag Category Lead, Fashion Department
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Oct 2013 - Apr 2015
• Increased category sales 15 times within my career in Amazon• Accelerated category business by managing KPI (PL, BS, Cash Flow, Customers, Marketing Initiatives, Vendor Management)• Led and managed 30 reporting lines (5 direct report) and delivered the best class team.• Leveraged PR (TV, magazine, event) and marketing initiatives to expand active customers.• Leveraged two fashion e-commerce sites (Amazon/Javari) to maximize brand capitalization• Turned around profitability from two digit negative to one digit positive. Show less
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Buying Manager, Shoes and Bag Category, Fashion Department
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May 2012 - Sep 2013
• MD and buying planning to achieve double digit billion JPY produce revenue by managing 2,000 fashion vendors (men’s shoes, women’s shoes, sports, luggage, bag and kids fashion)• Managed inventory and achieved proper season sell through at 60%. As a result, profit margin was improved from negative to positive.• Led and managed 13 buyers and acquired 1,500 new vendors.
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Senior Product Manager, Shoes and Bag Category, Fashion Department
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Jul 2011 - Apr 2012
• Initiated Amazon key web marketing actions; affiliate, sponsored link, SEO, email, SNS, offline marketing• Initiated Amazon TVCM campaign as the first time trial for Amazon Japan.• Improved Javari.jp affiliate actions to accelerate fashion blogger, network (ValueCommerce, A8 Network, Amazon Affiliate) and deal & coupon actions• Improved Javari.jp SEO mechanisms by working with Seattle HQ SEO engineers• Led and managed 5 web directors (site merchandiser) to initiate key Amazon and Javari web site action plans. Show less
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Philip Morris International
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Switzerland
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Tobacco Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Manager, Key Account, Sales Department (Expats)
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Mar 2010 - Jun 2011
• Key account management for supermarket channel – Woolworth in Sydney, Australia• General account channel development by leveraging pricing strategy• Summarized all of tobacco pricing mechanism and developed & presented key pricing actions for country managers in all of Asia Pacific countries.
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District Manager
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Mar 2009 - Feb 2010
• Led Gunma, Nagano and Niigata prefecture business by managing 54 territory sales managers, 8 unit managers and 1 secretary• All of territory sales managers and unit managers developed their own sales action plans and managed PDCA by setting KPI in reflection of district level sales strategy and action plans.• Turn around sales and market segment share in Takasaki and achieved 43 billion JPY annual sales.
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Manager, Key Account Strategy, Key Account
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Jan 2008 - Feb 2009
• Initiated CVS, GMS, supermarket and railway kiosk business planning and ran PDCA for all of channels by managing $40 million department budget.• Led 8 reporting lines to build up annual business planning mechanism as the 1st time for a company after taspo card introduction.
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Project Manager, Sales Organization
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Nov 2006 - Dec 2007
• Implemented taspo card introduction in Japan market as a company representative.
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A.T. Kearney
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Brazil
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Accounting
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Consultant - Automobile Practice
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May 2006 - Nov 2006
• Component complexity reduction project for the Japanese truck company • Long term business planning for the Japanese automobile company • Component complexity reduction project for the Japanese truck company • Long term business planning for the Japanese automobile company
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Supervisor, Supply Chain Service
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Oct 2005 - Apr 2006
• SCM planning and operation management by working with Sojitz and Mitsui Corporation• Led 2 reporting line (business analysts)
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Management Traineeship Program
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May 2004 - Sep 2005
• Rotated four assignments (Marlboro brand management, trade marketing, field sales and key account)
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TKK Company
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Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
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Production Manager
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Apr 2001 - Jul 2002
• Once took over family business but my brother finally took over this business now. • Once took over family business but my brother finally took over this business now.
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Education
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2002 - 2004
Wake Forest University School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration, Management and Operations -
1999 - 2001
北海道大学
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Materials Science and Engineering -
1995 - 1999
北海道大学 / Hokkaido University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Materials Engineering
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