About
After working at Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. and starting two venture companies of his own, Yamamoto became the President and Representative Director of ASAHI Net, Inc. Yamamoto led ASAHI Net, Inc. into the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Each of the eight years he was in office, the company received the 1st place in J.D. Power’s ISP Customer Satisfaction Survey. In 2007, Yamamoto created Japan’s first cloud-based LMS (learning management system) for educational institutions and grew it into a service that was adopted by 240 universities in Japan and 40 universities in America. In 2011, his leadership and strategy became a case study at Harvard Business School. He is the Chairman of the Board at Fuller Inc., Founder and President and of Open Road Associates, Inc., Founder and Board Member of UWC ISAK JAPAN (Japan’s first international full-boarding high school), and a member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. His hobbies include producing dance performances and his
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 125 investors hold the Executive Chairman role in VCSift. Kimiya Yamamoto is one of them.
- • 199 investors are based in Japan.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Japan
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