Ikuma Ueno
Chief Strategy Officer, Akiverse.
Ikuma is a Chief Strategy Officer of Akiverse, a Web 3.0 Metaverse platform company to provide various entertainment utilizing blockchain technology, directing the token listing, offering, marketing, and overall corporate strategy. Incubator and an investor for various GameFi, Web3.0 projects to design and strategize the tokenomics. One of the first people to list the Japanese oriented P2E token to the government regulated exchange.
Ikuma has full experience in crypto business since 2018 working as Business Development Manager at Cumberland - a DRW company focused to expand Crypto OTC services specifically in Asia as well as a frontier of NFT GameFi Project that lead Play-to-Earn business to adopt globally.
Prior to DRW, Ikuma was a Senior Digital Strategist at Mizuho Financial Group, one of the largest financial conglomerates in Japan, where he was in the planning division to focus on driving FinTech initiatives, especially in the area of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Ikuma was a primary participant of r3 consortium and resident advisor for the New York tech venture capital RRE Ventures.
Ikuma started his career from Mizuho Bank as a SME banker to offer lending and banking services. Later he transferred to Settlement and Clearing Services Division Mizuho Corporate Bank to custody assets such as JGB, equity, SB of largest foreign financial institutions.