January 14, 2025
To all the press
GMO TECH, Inc.
GMO TECH Announces Appointment of New Executive Officer
GMO TECH, Inc. (CEO: Akihito Suzuki, hereinafter referred to as "GMO TECH"), a GMO Internet Group company that provides online customer acquisition services, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Takuma Nakahara as a new executive officer to further accelerate its business and strengthen its management structure to expand its organization.
Nakahara, who has an extensive career as a marketer and business manager, has been appointed as an executive officer, and will further strengthen our core business in the areas of SEO and MEO.
The management team, including the newly appointed Nakahara, will further accelerate the strengthening of the business and organization, aiming to achieve growth for GMO TECH.
[Career]
In his 20s, he gained a wide range of experience in sales and operations in the financial industry, and then in his 30s he moved to the IT industry, working as a marketer in SEM at a company that runs a real estate comparison site.(* 1)He then went on to work as a general manager at a support company, where he gained experience in expanding the business and managing the organization. In 2015, he completed the MBO of the business division he oversaw.(* 2)He took this opportunity to become COO of CROCO Inc. In January 2025, he joined GMO TECH Inc. and became Executive Officer and General Manager of the Product Marketing Division.
(※1) SEM: An abbreviation for "Search Engine Marketing," it is a marketing method that makes a website appear at the top of search engines such as Google, thereby increasing the number of visitors.
(*2) MBO: An abbreviation for "Management Buyout," which means that a company's management team purchases shares or part of a business division and acquires management rights.
[Comment from the artist]
I have worked in the finance and IT industries as a sales and marketing professional, developing new businesses and running organizations. After becoming COO of a content production company, I continued to work with clients and manage the organization, while also using the know-how I had gained through research and practice to provide SEM consulting and develop new services.
At GMO TECH, we are committed to our motto, "Don't be afraid of change, carve out the future." We will strive to become a leader in innovation in the industry by creating new customer experiences using AI, launching new businesses, and successfully completing cross-departmental projects.
[About GMO TECH]
GMO TECH was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market (now the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market) in December 2014. We develop our own services using the latest technology and provide customer acquisition support through internet advertising, MEO, and SEO.
We offer a wide range of SEO solutions, including "MEO Dash! byGMO," a service for store operators that helps attract customers by ranking highly in Google Maps searches, "SEO Dash! byGMO," which provides SEO consulting to improve organic search rankings and user conversion rates, "Feed Dash! byGMO," an advertising operation centered on aggregated job ads, and "Job Search Dash! byGMO," which enables compatibility with Google Job Search with a single tag.We also promote our internet customer acquisition business through a multifaceted approach, including our in-house developed advertising distribution service for smartphone apps, "GMO SmaAD," and our performance-based affiliate service for the web, "GMO SmaAFFi."
Across all of our businesses, GMO TECH places emphasis on conversions (results) such as inquiries, purchases, and installations, which are the most important KPIs in our clients' web strategies, and contributes to the growth of our clients' businesses by attracting customers.
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[Contact for inquiries regarding this matter]
GMO TECH, Inc.
Kobayashi, PR Group, Corporate Planning Department
TEL:03-5489-6370 FAX:03-5489-6371
Email: press@gmotech.jp
[GMO TECH Inc.] (URL:https://gmotech.jp/）
| Company Name | GMO TECH, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Securities Code: 6026) |
|---|---|
| Address | Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo |
| Representative | Akito Suzuki, President and CEO |
| Business Overview | Creating the future with AI 1. Internet customer acquisition business 2. Web Marketing DX Business 3. SaaS DX Business 4. Internet Media Business 5. Internet business in general, including the above |
| Capital | 1 million yen (as of the end of December 2024) |
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