ExaWizards Inc. announced the leadership changes as follows: Makoto Haruta current post: Director & Chairman, new post Representative Director & President and Ko Ishiyama current post: Representative Director & President, new post: Director. Makoto Haruta, Born on January 5, 1969, April 1992 Joined The Sumitomo Bank Limited (currently Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation), February 2000 Joined DeNA Co. Ltd., April 2015 Representative Director and CEO, betaCatalyst Inc. (to present), February 2016 Established and became Representative Director of the Company (formerly Exaintelligence Inc), October 2017 Chairman and Representative Director of the Company, March 2018 President and Representative Director, BeeEdge Inc., November 2018 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (to present), June 2020 Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc. (currently TBS Holdings Inc.) Outside Director (to present) and April 2022 Outside Director, Panasonic Corporation (to present).

The company also announced new appointments as follows: Masanori Sato as Executive Officer; Masato Saito as Executive Officer, Patrick Kuti as Technology Officer and Masaki Onishi as Technology Officer. All the above changes effective from April 1, 2023. The Executive to Retire on March 31, 2023, Tomohiko Kimura, Saori Oji, Daiki Hasegawa, Hirotsuna Fujiwara, Kohei Okuno and Masato Saito as Executive Officer.

Masanori Sato: M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. In 1999, he joined Alps Electric Co. Ltd. as a new graduate and was engaged in the development of direct thermal printers, and in 2002, he joined Canon Inc. and was engaged in the research and development of physical simulators for multi-component fluids, etc., phenomenon analysis, various numerical calculations, HPC (High After joining Exa Intelligence Corporation (currently ExaWizards Corporation) in July 2017, he has been working on data analysis and forecasting model building projects mainly for structured data in various industries such as manufacturing, restaurant, financial, and pharmaceutical industries.

From July 2022, he has been in charge of developing and managing the organization of machine learning engineers as the General Manager of AI Frontier Department. Masato Saito: Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Policy Management (Hideyuki Tokuda Research Group, Communication Protocol Development), and completed the Graduate School of Media and Governance (Hideyuki Tokuda Research Group, Routing Control Protocol Development). He was certified as an unexplored super creator (development of ubiquitous network browser).

While in school, he researched and developed the LR-AKE protocol for two-factor authentication and cryptographic key exchange at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and co-founded BURSEC Inc. He was engaged in the development of LR-AKE software, SDK, product integration, product implementation, security consulting and CISO operations. Focusing on corporate IT and information security operations, he has served as CISO since December 2018 and was appointed as Technology Officer in April 2022. He is also engaged in the development of engineering organization.

Patrick Kuti: He studied Information Science (Robotics) at Kingston University and graduated from the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics in 2012 and has since been obsessed with systems engineering. He has previously worked at Technicolor (as the head of systems engineering) and Williams Lea Tag/DHL (as the global head of development operations). During his professional career, he has developed a deep background in distributed systems engineering, infrastructure security and DevOps and has a love for observability.

He came to Japan in 2017 to fulfil his dream of working in Japan and joined ExaWizards as a DevOps Engineer in 2018 to help build the engineering organization. Since then, he has grown the DevOps team into a Platform Engineering organization as its division leader and currently leads the development of exaBase Studio, ExaWizard's AI Service Development Platform, as its division leader. Masaki Onishi: Graduated from Graduate School of Information Science (Matsumoto Laboratory, Natural Language Processing), Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

Worked on the launch of AI-based listing ad operation support service and maintenance of morphological analyzers at JustSystems Inc. He joined ExaWizards in January 2019. Engaged in projects such as perspective polarity analysis from HR documents, call center text analysis, and trend prediction using SNS. He also develops improvements to exaBase Forecast & Analysis, and launches and operationally develops nursing care products.

He is in charge of developing and promoting projects/products using natural language processing and voice.