Toshi Yamamoto

As founder and CEO, Toshi Yamamoto oversees the day-to-day operations of ChatWork, the group chat tool for global teams, which is dual headquartered in Silicon Valley and Tokyo. Yamamoto founded his first web marketing and software sales company, EC Studios, in 2000. In 2012, the company dedicated all resources to growing the internal group chat tool and rebranded the company to ChatWork. Yamamoto is a best-selling author on fostering employee satisfaction whose company was twice ranked as the best company to work for in Japan.