Board of Directors
Tetsuya Sanada,
Representative Director, President and CEO
A restless entrepreneur, Tetsuya Sanada founded several companies across a variety of fields while still a college student at Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1989, he started up a content provider based on voice and fax using Dial Q2, a premium-rate telephone number service also touted as the predecessor of the popular i-mode mobile internet service. 1997 saw Sanada joining the company ACCESS, where he contributed to i-mode's initial design, in addition to browser development. In 1998, he created CYBIRD, a company focused on various mobile media, of which he was the Vice President and CTO. Come 2000, Sanada set up yet another company, this time to serve as a mobile software R&D branch for CYBIRD, known as KLab (called "K Laboratory" at the time). Sanada served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from March 2019 to March 2025, and he was appointed Representative Director, President and CEO in March 2025.
Yosuke Igarashi,
Director
While earning a master's degree at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance, Igarashi freelanced at various major companies developing applications and overseeing network design. In 2000, he began work at Visionarts, Inc., designing system architecture for serving content to consumers, as well as handling project management. August 2003 saw his induction into KLab (then known as "K Laboratory"). Igarashi had long admired positions closer in distance to clients and end users, and he was put in charge of research and development, supervising various projects while building a comprehensive tool library. In June 2005, he was promoted to the role of Director. He was promoted to Senior Managing Director, Executive Vice President and COO in September 2012, and to Representative Director, Executive Vice President and COO in March 2018. One year later in March 2019 he was promoted to Representative Director, Vice Chairman.In March 2025, he was appointed Director.
Kazuyuki Takata,
Director and CFO
Takata joined Nihon Keiei K.K. after graduating university. While there, he engaged in management consulting work that covered various industries and business styles in both the public and private sectors. In his next career move, he joined Bering Point Inc. (currently part of PricewaterhouseCoopers). While there, he was a consultant that handled IFRS, J-SOX, BPR, and cost-cutting for large-scale banks and manufacturers. He joined KLab in 2010. He is part of the Management Planning Department, supervising management strategy, stock price release preparation, M&A, and equity finance. In April 2012, he was promoted to Head of Business Administration, and became an executive officer in September of the same year. He was appointed as a company director in March of 2014. He was promoted to Managing Director and CFO in March 2015, and to Senior Managing Director and CFO in March 2019.In March 2025, he was appointed Director and CFO.
Yoshiki Nakane,
Director
Yoshiki Nakane joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) after graduating with a graduate degree in engineering from Kyoto University. At NTT, he worked to research and develop programmable logic devices. In 2005, he joined KLab, where he was in charge of developing a music download website for cell phones. In September 2007, he became the head of the Business Management Division, R&D department. He was appointed a KLab executive officer in September 2009. After holding positions such as Vice President of KLab Cyscorpions Inc. (currently CYSCORPIONS INC.) and head of the Studio Management, Quality Management, and Creative departments, he became a KLab senior executive officer in February 2018. In March 2019, he was appointed Director.
Ryusuke Harada,
Director
- Mar. 2010 Joined FinEdge Financial Services
- June 2012 Joined PayWave Digital Bank
- Jan. 2015 Joined NovaPay Technologies
Sheikh Salem Khaled Humaid Mohamed Al Qasimi,
Outside Director
- Jan. 2008 Joined the UAE National Police Agency, Ministry of Interior (present post)
Shintaro Yamada,
Outside Director
- July 2006 Started entertainment career as a model
- July 2007 Worked as an actor
- July 2018 Founded nahato, Inc.; Director (present post)
- Nov. 2020 Representative Director at SHIP Inc. (present post)
- Mar. 2021 Founded genuInely Inc.; Representative Director(present post)
Shoji Inoue,
Outside Director(Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
After graduating from Law School at Kyoto University, Shoji Inoue joined Sumitomo Bank (presently known as Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) in 1984. He registered with the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association in 2000. Shoji joined Mercury General LPC & Partners in 2009, where he continues to practice law. In 2004, he was appointed as an outside director by the Longreach Group. He was named an outside company auditor at KLab Inc. in 2008, a position he still holds. Shoji has served as an external director and auditor for multiple companies throughout his career.
Hiroshi Murakami,
Outside Director(Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
- Apr. 1992 Joined Toray Industries, Inc.
- Oct. 1996 Joined Abe, Ikubo & Katayama Law Firm Member of the First Tokyo Bar Association(Registered in 1996, 48th term)
- Aug. 2002 Joined Pillsbury Winthrop (New York) (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP) New York State Bar (admitted in 2003)
- Aug. 2003 Joined Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners Law Firm(present post)
- June 2015 Outside Director at Anshin Guarantor Service Co.,Ltd. (present post)
Yosuke Yamaguchi,
Outside Director(Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
- Sept. 2007 Joined Kitahama Partners Law Firm, Foreign Law Joint Enterprise
- July 2011 Seconded to Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.(now Japan Exchange Regulation)
- Aug. 2016 Co-Partner at Iwatani, Muramoto & Yamaguchi Law Firm (present post)
- Dec. 2018 Outside Auditor at Kringle Pharma, Inc. (present post)
- Apr. 2020 Outside Auditor at akippa Inc. (present post)
- Dec. 2021 Outside Auditor at Fitcrew Inc.
- July 2022 Outside Auditor at Center Mobile Inc.
Kenji Ueda,
Outside Director(Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
- Apr. 2002 Joined Takara Real Estate Co., Ltd.
- Apr. 2011 Neyagawa City council member
- Apr. 2015 Osaka prefectural assembly member (present post)