Hiroto Kobayashi
Entrepreneur, Innovation Accelerator, Author, Professor
Editor in Chief of WIRED JAPAN ［magazine］ : 1994-1998
Founder and CVO of INFOBAHN Inc. : 1998-
Founder and Editor in chief of CYZO［magazine］ : 1998-2005 / sold in 2007
Founder of Gizmodo Japan［Online］ : 2006-
Publisher of Business Insider Japan［Online］ : 2017-
Professor of BBT University 2011-
Advisory board of Israeli Blockchain Association : 2017-
TOA Official Ninja Evangelist in Japan : 2017-
Editorial Adviser of WIRED JAPAN［magazine］: 2008-
Editorial Adviser of COTAS［web magazine］
Adjunct instructor at the graduate school of the university of Tokyo : 2009-2011
Founder and CEO of digimo inc.［3D Scanning Service］ : 2012- 2016
Books and Activities
Supported with launching a large cast of Japanese plosper websites and web-promotions.
( i.e. Cocolog［a first toll-blog service provider in Japan］ , map［a portal site of Japanese media art held by Agency of cultual affairs Japan］, Akira Otomo's "Steam Boy", ［a first movie blog campaign in Japan］VMAJ Award 2007 and more...)
Publisher of the bestseller Kaori Manabe's kokodake-no-hanashi
Author of "Web As A Map From The Future Of Real Society"（PHP）"The Next Media -Before Newspaper and Magazine Dies-" (Basilco) "Rise of Corporate Generated Media" (Gijyutsu Hyoron-sha). Co-Author of "The Return of Primitive Man in the Heyday of the Digital Revolution" (Shobun-Sha)
Superviser and commentary of Japanese edition of "FREE The Future of a Radical Price" by Chris Anderson "(NHK Publishing), "What's Mine is Yours" by Rachel Botsman (NHK Publishing), "Public Parts" by Jeff Jarvis (NHK Publishing), "The Game has been decided before customer pays"(Tatsuhiko Sibasaki : Daiamond Publsihing)
Co-author of a book "RSS Marketing For The Company
Contributor for Kyodo-Tsuhin, NIKKEI BP ONLINE, Daily Gendai, GQ Japan and the others.
Former Board member of "Contents Policy Committee" which is under the auspice of the Cabinet Office Goverment Japan and METI in 2005.
Co-Producer of "TOA World Tour : Tokyo" in 2017
