Born in Akabane, Kita-ku, Tokyo in 1980. Joined Hakuhodo in 2002 after graduating from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Economics degree. After working in the Strategic Planning Department, he became a founding member of Hakuhodo Kettle in 2006 and established HASHI inc. in 2018. Currently engaged in a wide range of work as a creative director producing integrated campaigns from a PR perspective. His reason for joining Whatever is “because we are friends.”