Summary
Masaki Hirano is a business development leader with nine years of experience driving new ventures across advertising, telecom, logistics real estate, and space commerce, currently leading education business development at a space trading company in Yokohama. He has a proven track record launching consumer brands and segment-targeted services, then scaling B2B IoT/AI and smart city initiatives as project leader and manager at SoftBank. As General Manager at a logistics SaaS/alliances unit he turned an unprofitable business into a profitable one, completed a full DD-to-exit transaction in 2024, and led PMI and organizational rebuilding. Comfortable across marketing, product planning, partner negotiations, P&L management and event production, he combines hands-on operational rigor with strategic vision. A Tokyo University of Science-trained engineer who also writes and lectures (RunDog.org), he brings a rare blend of creative marketing roots and structured systems thinking to build repeatable, revenue-driving businesses.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
工学部建築学科, 工学部建築学科 at 東京理科大学