Shinji Asada

Experience

Salesforce Ventures

Partner, Japan Head

uzabase

Board Member

Invested into 15 companies.

Japan Head, Salesforce Ventures 2015 - Present (almost 10 years)

Sanan, Bizreach, freee, Toreta, TeamSpirit, Uhuru, Flect, Goodpatch, Moneytree, Yappli, PhoneAppli, toBe Marketing, Studist, KitAlive, Bizer.

Itochu Technology Ventures

Director 2012 - 2015 (almost 3 years)

Invested into 7 companies.
3 Active:Mercari, WHILL, TokyoOtakuMode
4 Exits:Uzabase(IPO), Muse&Co(M&A by Mixi), Box(IPO), Fab(M&A)

ITOCHU Corporation

Employee 2000 - 2015 (almost 15 years)

Caplan

SaaS HRM-General Manager 2010 - 2011 (about 1 year)

Built team of 5 to start SaaS HR Talent Management (SuccessFactors) business. Acquired industry leading customers such as, ITOCHU Corp., Rakuten, Mizuho Bank, Nifco. Led Post... more

CTC

Senior Sales Account Manager 2005 - 2009 (almost 4 years)

Responsible for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity Investments account. Sold, HP, Dell, SunMicrosystems, Oracle, EMC, NetApp, Avaya, and Symantec, Awarded Sales... more

Itochu

M&A-Project Manager

2009 - 2010 (11 months)

Merged ITOCHU's subsidiary Caplan with Japan Airline's two subsidiaries, JAL Business and JAL Academy.

Venture Investment-Project Manager

2002 - 2005 (almost 3 years)

Invested US$5 Million into three companies, Starent Networks (IPO, 10x), CasIron Systems (M&A, 3x), Aruba Wireless Networks (IPO, 10x), and invested into three US VCs... more (NEA, DFJ, Globespan Capital). Managed $60 Million in assets invested into US and Israeli VCs.

Strategy Planning-Group Leader

2000 - 2002 (almost 2 years)

Assessed financial performance of division and assisted in setting division's strategy.

Employee

Itochu Technology Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, ITOCHU Corporation, Itochu, CTC, Caplan, Invested into 15 companies.

Board Member

uzabase

Education

About

Achievements

I grew a SaaS business(Successfactors) in Japan from zero to a multi million dollar business in annual revenue in 1.5 years.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Venture Capital SaaS Subscription Models Business Development HRM Integrity Management New Business Development Planning Sales Talent Management

Locations

Silicon Valley Tokyo