QUNIE - Key Persons


Atsushi Ezawa - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Leads company-wide operational and SCM reforms, advanced production planning, and system grand design for manufacturing, retail, and trading companies. Engages deeply in the field, guiding clients from digital journey and reform roadmap formulation to execution.

Fumitake Yanagisawa

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports IT-driven business transformation for banking, securities, insurance, and non-bank companies. Leverages extensive experience in corporate planning, product development, finance, sales, marketing, and risk & compliance.

Hang Su

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Partner
Oversees Asia operations. With expertise in process improvement across sales, production, procurement, and planning in the manufacturing sector, he supports SCM transformation, shared services, core system restructuring, and change management; he has led numerous large-scale ERP/SCM projects.

Hirokazu Nakabachi

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports HR strategy planning to system implementation. Leads global HR ERP implementation, HR system standardization across group companies, and labor environment reform. Combines technical expertise with a managerial perspective to enhance corporate value through HR and organizational transformation.

Hiroyuki Doi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Supports the formulation and implementation of digital strategies and SAP-based enterprise solutions, focusing on the manufacturing sector. Drives business transformation and addresses management challenges, and promotes digital transformation, regardless of company size.

Hiroyuki Kawashima - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Assists manufacturing companies in planning, implementing, and deploying technology and production strategies. Specializes in business reforms, including engineering chain process optimization, BOM restructuring, and the implementation of core systems such as PLM and ERP.

Jun Hirabayashi

Job Titles:
  • Director
Collaborates with the Japanese government and international organizations to provide comprehensive support for establishing private businesses in emerging markets, from research to demonstration and commercialization. Engages in market research, fundraising, and capability enhancement to expand digital assets in overseas markets, including developed countries.

Junichi Sudo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Supports companies, primarily in the manufacturing sector, with market trend analysis, new strategy development, and business model evaluation; drives creation of unprecedented value in products and services, and restructuring of value chains for businesses facing challenges such as electrification (EV), GHG regulations, and fluidity and decline of workforce.

Junichiro Fuchikami

Job Titles:
  • Director
Leads CX transformation in sales and marketing. Specializes in business strategy, sales reform, and change management, supporting large-scale organizational transformations to optimize customer touchpoints such as sales, marketing, and contact centers.

Kaoru Kanazawa - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Enhances corporate competitiveness by reinforcing and deepening management foundations. Drives growth in core and existing businesses through digital transformation, strategic planning, operational reform, organizational restructuring, business management optimization, cultural transformation, and leadership development.

Katsuhiko Arakawa

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Supports wide range of industries and businesses from assembly manufacturing to materials, semiconductors, food, and beverage manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and transportation and aviation industries, working on medium- to long-term strategy planning and implementation, business process reform, and system implementation, as well as BOM-based management accounting.

Katsumitsu Tsuchiya

Job Titles:
  • Partner
As head of sales, connects clients and consultants to drive business growth. At the Indonesia office, promotes business process reform focusing on SCM, CRM, DX, and HR, aiming to drive the country's economic growth through local enterprise transformation.

Keita Shimoyama

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports resolution of CFO agendas by promoting the use of DX and generative AI in financial management, implementing management control that incorporates ESG activities, driving proactive IR transformation, and introducing supply chain finance.

Kensaku Mizushima

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Leads resolution of future challenges for major convenience stores, drugstores, apparel companies, and e-commerce businesses by focusing on shifts in consumer needs. Drives digital transformation in Japan's distribution industry, spearheading business and system strategy formulation as well as company-wide operational reforms.

Kojiro Fukushi - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Provides hands-on support for companies aiming to expand profits through new business and business development. Leads creation of new ventures leveraging advanced technologies such as generative AI and the metaverse, and guides the formulation and execution of business strategies leveraging trends such as subscriptions.

Makoto Hara - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Helps the Japanese government developing technologies and businesses in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, and biotechnology. For private sector, he assists many companies, universities and other research institutions in TNFD trial disclosures and integrated pest management demonstrations to solve various problems.

Makoto Yamamoto

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Helps CIOs and IT/digital departments with strategy formulation, management reform, and organizational transformation. The support includes growth of IT/digital departments through MVV redefinition, strengthening collaboration with management and business departments, DX planning and promotion, as well as improving business sophistication and efficiency.

Masahito Iwasa

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Leads optimization and advancement of HR operations and talent management through HR technology, digital transformation of work styles, and people analytics. Supports organizations across industries in formulating strategies for human capital management and developing DX talent.

Masanori Kato

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports engineering chain reforms in the manufacturing industry, offering end-to-end assistance on operational, IT, and business challenges "from hypothesis formulation and conceptualization to roadmap development, execution, and implementation.

Mitsuhiro Hirano - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Supports B2B companies in customer and sales management, enhancing competitiveness through business reform and system implementation. Specializes in customer and marketing strategy formulation, as well as planning and executing strategic initiatives.

Nobuhiro Okabe

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Leads supply chain planning and execution, organizational and talent development in the accounting domain, business reform, and mid-term digital transformation initiatives, primarily focusing on Thailand's manufacturing, distribution, and trading sectors. Manages local consultants in business reforms for non-Japanese companies.

Ryohei Sasakawa

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Leads QUNIE's SCM/S&OP; helps clients enhance competitiveness through SCM process optimization, data-driven decision making, and business design and execution. Responsible for building alliance with partners and increasing engagement with customers.

Satoshi Nakajima

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports consumer goods manufacturers, particularly vertically segmented group companies, in corporate culture transformation, awareness enhancement, and system development through collaborative reforms. Drives operational and IT improvements while aiding structural reforms and competitiveness enhancement.

Sayaka Sakamoto

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Leads procurement and purchasing reforms and business and organizational transformation. Helps clients with procurement strategy, process reform, and supplier management, as well as driving transformation through operational hyper-automation and generative AI, and shared services and BPO implementation.

Shigeki Kawano

Job Titles:
  • Director
Helps Japanese companies and local Vietnamese companies in Vietnam with DX, leading local consultants to provide a wide range of support including manufacturing and logistics efficiency improvement, sales force enhancement, digital marketing, CX analysis, and core system implementation.

Shigeki Yamaguchi - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • President

Shigeru Maki - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Provides support for business reform, DX promotion, and system implementation and restructuring for public institutions, including central government agencies, local governments, and independent administrative corporations. Serves as an ICT advisor for designated cities and a digital transformation advisor for core cities.

Shuichi Muroi

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Leads implementation of SAP solutions across LOBs, system optimization, and digital value chain transformation. Supports adoption and integration of cloud-based business applications centered on full digital innovation.

Tadayasu Kato

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Helps consumer goods companies in food, beverage, liquor, daily goods, and cosmetics industries with reforming new product development processes, supply chains, etc. with experience in company-wide structural reforms, including standardization of operations across group companies and restructuring of core systems.

Taishi Sato - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Leads digital transformation for companies by leveraging advanced technologies. Supports business model transformation, new service design, customer and marketing reform, and digital talent development, primarily in the service, retail, distribution, and manufacturing sectors.

Takahiro Yanagisawa

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports business strategy formulation, new business development, product and service innovation, and growth across diverse industries. Leads asset-based thinking for business creation for large enterprises. Focuses on generating business ideas that scale operations effectively.

Takamitsu Mitsubayashi

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports Japan's manufacturing industry with global SCM/S&OP reforms and also focuses on SCM talent development, helping Japanese manufacturers strengthen their competitiveness. In recent years he promotes sophistication of corporate management by building xP&A processes.

Takanori Kurahashi

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Provides support in addressing cybersecurity threats by developing appropriate measures using frameworks and ensuring sustainable operations. Focuses on deriving resilient systems and organizational architectures through security-by-design principles.

Takashi Tamai

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Provides consistent support for business and system reforms in healthcare-related industries, covering the entire value chain. Specializes in medical DX projects, driving data utilization across various phases "from business requirement analysis to strategy development, dissemination, and field validation.

Taku Kimura

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Drives IT infrastructure optimization and cloud migration across various industries; focuses on cybersecurity measures for sectors handling sensitive information, leveraging his expertise to lead system and internal audits.

Takuya Shigenobu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Helps medical institutions and healthcare and life sciences companies, including pharmaceutical companies in new drug development and medical device manufacturers in go-to-market strategies, drive innovation. The focus is on promoting medical DX, leveraging generative AI to transform how medical institutions operate, and advancing digital therapeutics.

Tetsuya Shishido

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Primarily helps the manufacturing industry with global supply chain, supporting strategy development, new supply chain network construction, SCM/S&OP business reform, organizational reform, SCM talent development, and creation of digital supply chain twin.

Tetsuya Suzuki

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Working with experts possessing both accounting and IT knowledge to digitalize accounting operations for companies in the automotive, chemical, and retail industries, as well as trading firms. Also driving organizational and mindset reforms to transform traditional accounting functions into a modern finance department.

Tomoyuki Iwane

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Specializes in supporting global management, budget and cost control, and performance evaluation systems, with a focus on consolidated accounting from both operational and system perspectives. Leads development of management support frameworks that enable CEOs and CFOs to make swift and accurate decisions.

Toshiharu Adachi

Job Titles:
  • Director
Supports small and midsize companies in management improvement and turnarounds. Identifies key issues, formulates optimal solutions, and drives implementation. Strengthens management foundations and fosters awareness to build self-sustaining improvement systems.

Toshihide Akagami

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Partner
Supports corporate and business strategy formulation, marketing, business transformation, system planning, R&D, and new business development in the telecommunications and utilities/energy sectors. Oversees DX initiatives across various industries and in the Chubu and Western Japan regions.

Toshihiko Minami - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Supports manufacturing industry reforms in a rapidly evolving environment, from business strategy and process design to system implementation. Drives transformation with a broad range of solutions, including PLM and ERP, from both business and operational perspectives.

Toshio Shikuya

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Assists Japanese companies in entering, expanding, and strengthening their global operations, as well as creating synergies following acquisitions. For the Japanese market, he supports clients in formulating business strategies, developing visions and values for corporate integrations, and driving business and system transformation initiatives.

Wataru Morizaki

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Supports ERP implementation in the manufacturing industry, from conceptualization to execution, with an integrated and collaborative approach. Engages as a PMO and business domain expert, evaluating vendor proposals and quality from a third-party perspective while assisting client operations.