Toru Takasuka
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1966 –
Who is Toru Takasuka?
Toru Takasuka is a Japanese software entrepreneur.
Takasuka founded Cybozu, one of Japan's first Web-based groupware products. In 1997 with a $200,000 loan and two partners, Takasuka left his position as Vice President of Matsushita Electric Works V-Internet Operations in Osaka, Japan for the small city of Matsuyama, where he went to work developing Cybozu. Japanese for "cyber-kid", Cybozu held an Initial Public Offering within three years - at the time the fastest company rise to IPO in the history of Japan's Tosho 2 stock market. Today Cybozu is the number one groupware product in Japan. In April 2005 Takasuka officially resigned his position as President and CEO at Cybozu to pursue his new vision for business collaboration on a more global level. In January 2006 Takasuka founded LUNARR, Inc. with his business partner, Hideshi Hamaguchi in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon and Tokyo, Japan.
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