mromaine
Born on September 09, 2009•259 Karma
Born in Boston to an American father and Japanese mother. Lived in the North East U.S., Tokyo, and London before finally settling in Tokyo from ages 6 to 14. Attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Brown University, and received a Masters in music from Stanford University before returning to Tokyo in 2002 to join Sony. Started in R&D studying multi-channel audio streaming applications, moved to consumer product development, and then joined the Corporate Technology Strategy Group when Howard Stringer was appointed CEO. In 2007 I founded Majides, Inc. - a Web-Services development company and unification brand for incubation projects MiiStation, KiraKiraJin, and 2kurabe. MiiStation was reviewed in the WallStreet Journal and awarded a Time.com Best 50 Website in 2007. Currently developing Gengo (http://gengo.com), the most efficient human-powered translation platform with an API on the web.