Yusuke Ando

After entering the Tokyo Fire Department (TFD), he entered the School of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences of Tsukuba University. He founded a recruitment support business specified for recruitment of students with sports experience, KenkoCom (current Rakuten Direct). He founded Sockets Inc. in November 2012. He released Flipdesk, a sales promotion platform for smartphones in September 2014, which was implemented and used by a few hundreds of companies such as Adastria, BEAMS, MeganeSuper (glasses and contact lens stores). Later, Sockets Inc. was acquired by KDDI group. He was involved in business strategy, recruitment and M&A as the CEO of KDDI group company, and later resigned from the post in 2017. He currently hold the post as CEO of huckleberry. Inc (previously Yosemite Laboratory), a leading company that develops Shopify Apps.