Tetsuya Sanada, President & CEO
Established companies in a variety of industries while still enrolled at Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1989, founded a company that used Dial Q2 to provide content via voice and fax based on a business model that would to become the basis for i-mode. In 1997, as an employee at Access, Inc. (presently Access), worked on establishing the i-mode specifications and participated in browser development. In 1998, established Cybird Co., Ltd., where he became the executive vice president & CTO. In 2000, established KLab (formerly K Laboratory Co., Ltd.) as a software research and development company for mobile phones as an R&D sector of Cybird, and became its president and CEO. Became the chairman of the board of e-Check Development Inc. in March 2005. Became the chairman of the board of KLab Security Inc. in October.
Yosuke Igarashi, Director & General Manager
Completed the master's program in the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University. Engaged in application development, network design, and the building of a major company as a freelancer since he was a student there. Joined Visionarts, Inc. in 2000. Was in charge of system architecture design and project management for content delivery systems there. In August 2003, Joined KLab (formerly, K Laboratory Co., Ltd.) because he was attracted to the environment of promoting business in a closer position to customers and end-users. Promotes the building of well-understood tool libraries, while engaging in actual project management as a R&D department director and R&D department manager. Became its director in June 2005.
Hiroaki Sengoku, Director & CTO
Completed the Department of Engineering of the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. Engaged in research of genetic algorithms and network infrastructure technology at Hitachi, Ltd. Received the Yamashita Memorial Research Award from the Information Processing Society in 1997. Member of the Investigative Committee for Industry Applications in Systems Technology at The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan in 1998. In 2000, became the director & CTO of KLab (formerly K Laboratory Co., Ltd.). In 2005, became the director & CTO of KLab Security Inc. Since 1995, has developed and released applications such as Stone, a TCP/IP packet repeater, and Time Table Viewer, a schedule tool for the Palm PDA. In addition, operates gcd.org, a stable and robust site that offers member services.Wrote the know-how of server building gained by operating this site for Nikkei Linux during a two-year span from April 2000.