Director
President / CEO
Masahiro Morimoto Masahiro MorimotoBorn in Osaka Prefecture in 1966. Graduated from the National Defense Academy in 1989 and served on a destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. After retiring from the military, he worked for Applied Materials Japan, a semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturer, before founding UBIC (now FRONTEO) in 2003. He supports global companies in their international litigation countermeasures with big data analysis technology, and promotes the development and practical application of the AI engine "KIBIT" that applies research results in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. In 2007, the company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers (now Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth), and in 2013, it was listed on the US NASDAQ* (*delisted in February 2020). Currently, in addition to its founding business of forensic investigations and legal tech AI, including international litigation support, the company has expanded its business areas to include life science AI, business intelligence, and economic security, and as CEO of the FRONTEO Group, he is leading business development and AI research and development. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), director of the NPO Digital Forensics Research Association, and member of the Japan Society for Police Policy Studies. In April 2, he became a secretary of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.
Director/CTO
Hiroyoshi Toyoshiba Hiroyoshi ToyoshibaHe majored in mathematics at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. While studying for his PhD in Mathematics (Mathematics, obtained his PhD in 2000), he was in charge of statistical analysis of medical data at the Medical Information Department of Kyushu University Hospital from 1999. Since 2000, he has participated in research on the carcinogenesis process through data analysis at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in the United States. Since 2004, he has been engaged in research on statistical analysis of toxicity data and epidemiological study design and data analysis at the National Institute for Environmental Studies. In 2006, he joined Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., where he has served as a researcher in the bioinformatics field, head of bioinformatics at the Global Data Science Institute Japan site, and science fellow. He has also been involved in gene expression data analysis and target discovery in clinical trial data, as well as biomarker discovery in immunity and cancer. Since 2017, he has been involved in the development of life science AI at FRONTEO, where he develops AI algorithms specialized for the field of life science. Taking advantage of the feature of text vectorization, we have developed various AI products based on this artificial intelligence, such as paper search, drug discovery support, dementia diagnosis support, and fall prediction. He became CTO of Life Science AI in 2019 and an executive officer in 2021. He will be a director in 2024.
Director
Mari Yamamoto Mari YamamotoAfter joining an advertising agency, he worked at a risk management company. He launched a mental health care business and implemented business plans, product development, marketing, and sales strategies, leading the company to become the industry leader. He became a director in 2014 and achieved listing on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2017. He joined FRONTEO in 2018 and became a director in 2020.
Outside Director
Director Makoto Funahashi Makoto Funahashi |
Director Hirooki Kirizawa Hirouki Kirisawa |
Director Taeko Nagayama Taeko Nagayama |
Director Masao Torii Masao Torii |
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Full-time Statutory Auditor Kunihiro Sudo Kunihiro Sudo |
Statutory Auditor Takaharu Yasumoto Takaharu Yasumoto |
Statutory Auditor Kei Okubo Kei Okubo |
Executive Officer
Executive Officer
Naritomo Ikeue Naritomo IkeueAfter graduating from Chiba University Faculty of Science, joined Applied Materials Japan Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. He joined UBIC (now FRONTEO), which was just established in 2003.
He oversaw a wide range of sales and planning for the digital forensics business, discovery support business (support for evidence disclosure in international litigation), and risk consulting business, and made a significant contribution to the launch of each of FRONTEO's founding businesses.
Since 2015, as a new business venture, the company has been working to expand the areas of use of its in-house developed artificial intelligence engine, "KIBIT," laying the foundations for its current business intelligence and life science fields.
While also serving as CEO of FRONTEO USA, Inc. and FRONTEO Korea, Inc., as Executive Officer in charge of global management of the Legal Tech AI business, he aims to expand business through the spread of AI by proposing innovative e-discovery services that fully utilize the company's proprietary AI, KIBIT Automator, to the labor-intensive legal tech industry, which has long relied solely on human labor.
Executive Officer
Hiromi Kunieda Hiromi KuniedaAfter joining a semiconductor trading company, he worked at a tax accountant's office. Since joining UBIC (now FRONTEO) in 2012, he has been mainly engaged in accounting and finance. In overseas M&A, he played a central role in PMI and internal control construction for the investment destination, and later oversaw accounting and finance for subsidiaries in Japan, the United States, and Korea, making a major contribution to FRONTEO's global expansion.
He will become head of the Accounting and Finance Division in 2021 and a director of FRONTEO Korea, Inc. in 2023.
In 2024, he was appointed Corporate Executive Officer and will be responsible for a wide range of corporate departments including accounting and finance, human resources, legal and intellectual property, general affairs, and information systems. In addition to his extensive knowledge and expertise in accounting and finance, he will utilize his many years of experience at the company to not only strengthen the financial base and strengthen management accounting by introducing a core system, but also promote more proactive IR activities and aim to further increase FRONTEO's corporate value.
Advisory board
Strategic Advisor
Toshiyuki Ito Toshiyuki Ito
Graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Defense Academy, and completed the master's program (area studies) at the University of Tsukuba.Became a submarine rider in the Maritime Self-Defense Force.Captain Hayashio, Defense Attaché of the Japanese Embassy in the United States, Commander of the 2nd Submarine, Chief of the Public Relations Office of the Maritime Staff Office, Chief of the Information Division, Information Officer of the Defense Intelligence Headquarters, Chief of the Command and Communication Information Department of the Maritime Staff Office, Maritime Self-Defense Force After working as the second art school chief, the integrated staff school chief, and the Maritime Self-Defense Force Kure district general manager, he has been a professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology Graduate School (Toranomon Campus) since 2 (Department of Innovation Management, Graduate School of Innovation Management).
Specialty: Leadership/Followership, Risk Management, Defense/Security
Papers/Books
Dissertation: Russian Foreign Policy (Analysis from Cultural Anthropological Aspects)
・Book: “Textbook for General Staff” (Futabasha 2023)
・ Supervision: "Defense Simulation! Self-Defense Forces vs Unified Korea" (Takarajimasha 2020)
・Sankei Shimbun correct column, Jiji Press comment liner writer, Nippon Journal, Bunka Broadcasting Broadcasting “Good Morning Tera-chan” commentator, and other media appearances
Awards: Received "The Legion of Merit" from the US Defense Attaché for his work as a Defense Attaché, and "The Legion of Merit" from the US Defense Secretary for his work as Chief of the Sea
Other professional information: Serves as a permanent director of the National Federation of Defense Associations.
Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
Katsuya Tamai Katsuya TamaiGraduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1983.In April of the same year, he was an assistant at the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo.After that, he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Gakushuin University and an assistant professor at the same time. In October 4, he was transferred to the university and became an assistant professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology), the University of Tokyo. In May 1990, he became the professor (Intellectual Property Law) at the age of 4, and continues to this day.In addition to legal research on intellectual property law, he has published numerous research papers on legislative policy, industry-academia collaboration, and technology transfer.It is a pioneer in Japan regarding trade secrets, and its research theme is the "sovereign immunity" principle in the United States. In 1995, the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology launched the "Economic Security Research Program" to study economic security policies of major countries, legislation related to advanced technology management, and risk countermeasures. 10-1997 Keio University Special Invited Professor. Registered as a lawyer in 5 (belonging to the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association). Since April 36, he has also served as a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Law, Shinshu University.
Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science
Masayuki Murata Masayuki MurataHe completed his doctoral program at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University in 1988 (Science). In 1989, he became an assistant professor at the Quantum Biology Course, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. During that time, he studied abroad as a visiting researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Germany and the University of California, Berkeley in the United States from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, he became an associate professor at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki National Research Institute. In 2003, he became a professor at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. During that time, he also served as a special professor at the University of Tokyo/Nikon Corporation Social Collaboration Program "Next Generation Imaging Image Analysis Course." He also served as a special professor at the Cellular Engineering Research Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2021, he retired from the University of Tokyo (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo). From 2021, he will be a special professor at the Institute of Innovative Research (currently the Institute of Innovative Research), Tokyo Institute of Technology (currently the Tokyo University of Science). From 2022, he will be the Director of the Multimodal Cell Analysis Collaborative Research Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (currently Tokyo University of Science) (October 2022 to March 10). He is also a specially appointed professor at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN), International Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Tokyo, and a visiting professor at Jichi Medical University.
Aiming to create a new life science that combines morphological information (cell biology, biophysics, etc.) and molecular information (biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.), we developed a "covariation network analysis technique (PLOM-CON method)" that stratifies cell states based on the temporal synchronization of biomolecules, mainly proteins, in cells, based on a large number of cell (stained) images. We also constructed a "semi-intact cell resealing method" that can temporarily make the cell membrane permeable, exchange cytoplasm while maintaining the morphology and three-dimensional arrangement of organelles and cytoskeleton in the cell, and analytically reconstruct various life phenomena (signal transduction, organelle dynamics, etc.) that occur in a synchronized cytoplasmic environment, and established a method to create various pathological model cells and analyze the pathological expression factors. The former is a technology that can be used for "cell design" and "cell evaluation" to create cellular states under specific conditions, and the latter is a new technology that enables "cell editing" by changing the drama type of a cell without genetic modification of the cell. By combining these two new technologies and rapidly cycling through the cycle of "cell design → editing → evaluation," we are working to create a "cell design" center that will enable network-based analysis of stratified new drug efficacy, main actions, side effects, and toxicity expression, as well as the creation of safe, new, functionally activated cells without genetic modification.
Lawyer (Uriu & Itoga Law Firm) and Certified Fraud Examiner
Masataka Hayakawa Masataka HayakawaGraduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1999. Appointed as a Public Prosecutor (Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office) in 2000. After working in the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office (Special Criminal Affairs Division), visiting researcher at the University of Washington School of Law, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (Special Investigation Division), attached to the Criminal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice (General Affairs Division), and the Tokushima District Public Prosecutors Office (Third Prosecutor), he was registered as an attorney (Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association) in October 2014. In May 10, he became a partner at Atsumi & Sakai Law Offices, a foreign law joint venture, and in January 2015, he became a senior partner at the same office, overseeing the Crisis Management Practice Group. In addition to serving as a member of third-party committees for listed companies, including the Special Investigative Committee for the Japan Post Insurance Contract Issue, he also handles a wide range of legal matters, including investigative cases related to other corporate scandals, responding to investigations and investigations by authorities in cases of violations of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act such as insider trading and market manipulation, and advising on emergency response such as crisis management and public relations law.He also advises on building and strengthening compliance and risk management systems in peacetime, building and operating whistleblower systems, and legal matters related to business creation using AI.
In April 2022, he was appointed as Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. and Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Co., Ltd., and in June 4, he was appointed as Senior Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Co., Ltd. As the CCO (Chief Compliance Officer) of the Japan Post Group, he will work to restore trust after the scandal and strengthen the group's governance, compliance, and risk management systems. He has worked to improve and establish various systems and their operation (practicing the PDCA cycle) by improving the internal reporting system and harassment consultation system, spreading the group's corporate code of conduct, strengthening crisis management systems including natural disasters, enhancing risk management including compliance risks, reforming corporate culture, and standardizing, streamlining, and enhancing operations in the governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) areas using technologies and solutions such as AI. After retiring in April 2023, he will support companies in improving their management decisions, horizontally deploy best practices in the areas of governance, risk management, compliance, and sustainability, and support companies in strengthening the functions of their second line (legal affairs, compliance, risk management, sustainability promotion, etc.). He was appointed as an advisor to FRONTEO in April 6. He is a lawyer (Uriu & Itoga Law Firm) and a certified fraud examiner.
Former Executive Officer, Head of Economic Security Management Office, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Takashi Ito Takashi ItoGraduated from the Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Keio University in 1986. Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in the same year. While involved in semiconductor marketing and business planning, he also led industry restructuring, trade friction, and the resolution of international cartel litigation. From 1995 to 1997, he was seconded to the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), where he worked to strengthen ties between European governments and business circles and the Japanese business community.
In October 2020, he was appointed head of the Economic Security Management Office established by Mitsubishi Electric. In addition to analyzing economic security information and controlling risks, he actively conducts outreach on the importance of economic security and specific activities for companies. In April 10, he was appointed executive officer. He will retire in March 2023. In April 4, he will be appointed advisor to FRONTEO.