ABOUT
New AI & IoT platforms are set to re-write winning models and winners in every industry for next decades.
BLUE PARADIGM navigates companies to find new paradigm for them where they can spearhead and grow their business.
With unique insights cultivated at McKinsey & Company & Rakuten(Japanese version of Amazon), BLUE PARADIGM will hybrid strategy of green field innovation, open innovation, growth hack and M&A so that clients take the most efficient and fruitful paths and mitigate risk in their business transition, with deep knowledge of IT and AI technology as well as M&A and strategic insights of industries in US and Japan.
Kenji Yamanami
Founder and CEO
He is expert of Open Innovation, Digital Transformation(DX), and Corporate Development & M&A with successful track records in IT industry.
At Rakuten, he was responsible for Strategy and Corporate Development in US, which led to successful acquisition of eBates that brings more than 70 million dollars in profit.
He was engaged in several unicorn businesses today as founder.
He built epoch-making Retargeting Affiliate service, that generates over billion dollar sales each year.
He even started up cross-border shopping platform, Global.Rakuten.com/en, that grew to multi-hundred million sales business.
He has various successful experiences in transforming service to profitable service with IT.
Prior to Rakuten, he worked as Management Consultant at McKinsey and Company where he served for global high-tech companies.
He holds M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, LL.M. from Duke University Law School.
He also earned M.Eng in Electronic Engineering from University of Tokyo where he researched human brain using AI at University of Tokyo Medical School.