Consultants

Leveraging his bilingual skills gained through academic and Entrepreneurial experience in the United States, Yusuke has served as a manager at both global and Japanese recruitment firms specializing in global executive talents. With over 10 years of experience in the HR and recruitment industry, he has been involved in the recruitment of over 300 companies and have conducted career consulting for over 3,000 individuals.
Yusuke has provided career consulting tailored to candidates for specialized positions, and has been committed to recruitment consulting that ranges from formulating recruitment strategies to building operations with company executives.

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Japan’s Ministry of Defense as a National Public Service Class I official. He later studied at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and served at the Australian Department of Defence as the first personnel exchange representative from the Government of Japan.

After gaining experience in policy coordination and organizational management across governments, he shifted to the private sector to take direct responsibility for business outcomes, and founded GCI in 2023.

At GCI, he treats talent and business challenges as one integrated growth system, turning individual and organizational potential into measurable, repeatable outcomes.

Deeply versed in both the business growth and governance sides of financial services, with experience spanning megabanking, retail finance, overseas subsidiary management, internal audit, and internal control.

Drawing on hands-on experience in management, finance, and governance, Ryuichiro specializes in assessing senior executives, financial professionals, and corporate management talent.

Shun has experience in corporate sales, business development, P&L management, and recruitment across healthcare and executive talent sectors. Most recently, he helped launch a new recruitment service, driving business planning, KPI design, sales organization development, and AI-enabled matching and scouting automation.

After graduation experienced international sales then started a career in recruitment agency specializing in foreign companies as a Senior Advisor. Built over 2,500 relations with candidates providing tailored career advice.
With experience of managing a YouTube channel in the past developed branding and marketing skills through web media. Bilingual proficiency in Japanese and English.

Experienced HR leader with 12+ years in financial services and fintech across Europe and Asia.
He provides strategic HR support including leadership development, organizational change, talent and performance management.
He also supports professionals with business English coaching, interview prep, and career development.

Worked at IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft, and has also served as a recruitment officer.

During his career, he studied abroad and earned an MBA with distinction from Alliance Manchester Business School in the UK. While at Microsoft, he successfully transferred from the Japanese office to US headquarters.

Currently serving as Payment Program Lead in his second tenure at Amazon Japan, he excels in providing practical career consulting, drawing from his extensive experience working at GAFAM companies.

After joining a major Japanese global company as a new graduate, gained over 12 years of experience in global companies. Worked as a recruiter at Robert Walters for approximately 4.5 years, followed by over 6 years as a recruitment lead at Google.

A career professional specializing in global companies, with comprehensive knowledge of Silicon Valley-style recruitment practices and deep understanding of the challenges Japanese professionals face when working in global companies.

Matthew Nemick designs and delivers results‑focused English programs tailored to each situation as a GCAP Professional Coach.

With over 10 years of experience, Matthew specializes in maximizing performance in professional and public-facing environments. He provides personalized feedback to corporate executives, government officials, and celebrities, optimizing their performance for interviews, high-level meetings, negotiations, presentations and events to achieve significant impact on a short timeline.

Ryutaro began his career at Amazon Web Services as a Startup Account Manager, leading onboarding and cloud solution proposals for 300–400 startups.

He later founded the creative agency beer Inc., supporting recruitment branding and video production for large corporations and government agencies. After joining Scrum Ventures as a Senior Associate to support early-stage startup investments and new business creation, he is now a Google Cloud Senior Account Executive at Google.

Yangjie has a proven talent for bridging technology and business. They have extensive experience at leading multinationals—including Amazon, Coca‑Cola, and Nike—as a Bar Raiser and technical interviewer in Amazon Loop interviews, as well as an interview coach for candidates seeking data roles.

At Amazon, Yangjie led data‑product development and machine‑learning initiatives. Leveraging more than ten years of cross‑disciplinary expertise spanning Data Science, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, and AI Product Management, they founded Aideon Inc., where they now help organizations build AI‑ and DX‑driven solutions in areas such as data science, generative AI, marketing optimization, and workflow automation.

With nearly 20 years of experience in the global financial industry, Masaya Akiba has worked as a financial engineer, quant, data scientist, and project manager, while also serving as a recruitment officer.

After becoming independent, he has provided DX strategy consulting to both Japanese and international companies, as well as government organizations, supporting projects from planning and development to internal implementation. He is skilled at combining management strategies with data analytics, leveraging a wide range of technical skills in Excel, VBA, SQL, and Python, along with his extensive international experience.

He has a proven track record of driving data-driven decision-making and implementing systems to improve business efficiency, enhancing organizational competitiveness.

Michael McCoy is a bilingual leadership coach (EMCC accredited) and team facilitator with international experience. After studying Japan’s business culture and language, he ran a consultancy in London targeting Japanese companies, refining his negotiation skills while navigating the Asian Currency Crisis. In 2004, he was invited to join Panasonic’s European headquarters, where he achieved €100M in cost savings and promoted team collaboration within a complex organization of over 10,000 employees, earning the Directors’ Foundation Day Prize in 2008. Since then, he has coached executives and teams from Japanese companies, Fortune 500 firms, and even government ministers on topics such as leadership, team building, emotional intelligence, and cross-cultural influence.
Michael’s extensive coaching experience drives organizational growth and innovation.

A professional in business development and talent development utilizing generative AI.

After working at Barclays Securities, he co-founded FOLIO Inc. After becoming President and CEO of the company, he drove the expansion of business operations into corporate services.
Currently he represents reboot (now R Street), a consulting firm specializing in business revitalization, and has led successful turnarounds as a director of a former Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section listed company and as CEO of an AI startup.

International Coach Federation Certified PCC and CTI Certified CPCC.
As a professional life coach dedicated to each individual’s life and career journey, she supports clients in overcoming challenges with a commitment that spans several months. For corporate clients, she contributes to enhanced employee engagement, retention, and performance by clarifying career goals and supporting skill development.