He is an American venture capital investor and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Draper University, Draper Venture Netowork, Draper Associates, Draper Draper Goren Holm, etc. Major investors include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, Focus Media, etc.

He also serves as PT chair on the evolution and implementation of Liberal Democratic Party AI, Liberal Democratic Party Fusion Energy PT chair, Liberal Democratic Party new capitalism executive headquarters secretary general, etc. Former Deputy Minister of the Cabinet Office (2019.9 to 2020.9 in charge of disaster prevention, administrative reform, IT policy, science and technology innovation, space policy, etc.) Former Deputy Minister of the Cabinet Office (2014.9-2015.10 in charge of regional revitalization, national strategic special zones, Cool Japan Strategy, Okinawa-related policies, etc.) Former Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Parliamentary Affairs Officer on 2022/1/26, became the Liberal Democratic Party Digital Society Promotion Headquarters NFT Policy Review PT Chair. On March 30, “NFT White Paper - Japan's NFT Strategy with an Eye on the Web 3.0 Era -” was published as the Liberal Democratic Party Digital Society Promotion Headquarters NFT Policy Review PT Chair. Revolutionary, world-leading papers and evaluations created without bureaucratic intervention. On 9/13, he appeared on the NewsPicks (social economy media) program “THE UPDATE” and said, “What maximizes the value of analog is digital. The optimal organizational tool is DAO (DAO).” It won the “King of Comment Award” for commenting. On December 8, he was honored by the “NPO corporation Mannen Opposition Party” as a member of the 208th Diet three-star parliament (receiving the award for the fourth time, and the reason for receiving the award was “realizing a new method of policy making, such as compiling Liberal Democratic Party white papers related to Web3”). The Liberal Democratic Party led discussions on tax system reform, and tokens held by the company were not subject to year-end market value evaluations from 2024/4, and tokens not for short-term trading purposes held by a third party were excluded from year-end market value evaluations.

Emi Yoshikawa Former VP of Strategic Initiatives, Ripple Adjunct Professor, Kyoto University Emi Yoshikawa is a passionate advocate for blockchain and fintech innovation, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, she served as VP of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple, where she led strategy, business operations, and joint venture partnership, contributing to the company’s global growth over eight years. As an Adjunct Professor at Kyoto University, Emi lectures on blockchain and fosters collaboration between academia and industry through the Blockchain Research Center. In 2021, she was recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times. Emi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a CFA charter.

Graduated from the University of Tokyo School of Law in 1996 and joined the Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank (currently the Bank of Mitsubishi UFJ). He has successively held positions in the yen funds and securities department, human resources department, business planning department European planning office, etc. After serving as Chairman of the Corporate Planning Division in 2019, he became Executive Officer, CDO and Corporate Planning Manager in 2022. He is also in charge of new business development and leads investment alliances, including Web3.

Japan Blockchain Association (JBA) Representative Director bitFlyer Blockchain Co., Ltd. Representative Director Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd. and others, he co-founded bitFlyer Co., Ltd. in 2014/1. Since bitFlyer was founded, it has made efforts to make recommendations on domestic law revisions and formulate self-regulation rules, etc., and has successively served as CEO of bitFlyer USA, Inc. which is a crypto asset (virtual currency) exchange company and chairman of bitFlyer EUROPE S.A., contributing to the development of the crypto asset (virtual currency) exchange industry from a global perspective. Currently, in addition to serving as the representative director of bitFlyer Blockchain Co., Ltd., which was established in 2019/5, he also serves as representative director of the Japan Blockchain Association (JBA), general incorporated association Metaverse Japan advisor, ISO/TC307 National Deliberation Committee representative committee member, and Ministry of Defense opinion leader. They also attended the 2018 G7 Employment Innovation Ministerial Meeting, the 2019 G20/V20 VASP Summit, and the Public-Private Data Utilization Promotion Basic Plan Executive Committee hosted by the Cabinet Secretariat, etc. as experts, and are working ambitiously for the development of the web3 industry.

In addition to his activities with M-FLO, he is also known as a member of the super luxurious rap group TERIYAKI BOYZ®, and has collaborated with many artists by utilizing his unique connections. They also have close exchanges with foreign artists such as Pharrell Williams. That style has garnered a lot of attention from the fashion world, and he served as CEO of the fashion brand “AMBUSH®,” which started in 2008 with partner and designer YOON, and various others such as Nike, Levis, Louis Vuitton (Kim Jones), MOëT ET CHANDON, BVLGARI, Rimowa, GENTLE MONSTER, and General Mills Collaboration has been realized. On 2016/9/2, the brand opened its first shop in Tokyo. New AMBUSH® stores will open in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 2022, and it has become a spot to disseminate new creations and culture that go beyond the boundaries of conventional shop forms. Two people from VERBAL & YOON were selected for 5 consecutive years as “500 People Changing the Fashion World” announced by the online news site “Business of Fashion (BOF)” centered on the global fashion business, and were selected as “Hypebeast 100” in 2022, and their fields of activity span a wide range of fields. The brand's first NFT item was sold in February 2022, and sold out in 2 minutes. They are constantly attracting attention for their unique creations, such as opening their own metaverse “AMBUSH® SILVER FCTRY.”

Tone began his career as a risk analyst for Bear Stearns and became vice president of JPMorgan Chase after the 2008 financial crisis. Since then, through his YouTube channel, he has been educating people about the importance of web3, etc. Mr. Tone has also appeared in documentaries such as Magic Money & Bitcoin - Beyond the Bubble, and media such as CNBC and RT. Currently, he is planning events etc. on Tonevays.com and is producing 3 events: UnconfisCatable, Understanding Bitcoin, and The Financial Summit.

Born in 1974. After graduating from Santa Monica College in the US, he joined At Movie Co., Ltd. in 2004. In the same year, he took office as a director and was in charge of producing movies and TV dramas and launching new businesses. Gumi Co., Ltd. was established in 2007 and assumed the position of President and CEO. He retired from the company in 2021 and became the representative director and CEO of Financier Co., Ltd., which was co-founded in 2019 with ThirdVerse Co., Ltd. in the same year. His book is “Metaverse and Web3” (MDN Corporation).

After working as a specially invited researcher at Mizuho Trust Bank, TIS Corporation Financial Strategy Business Planning Department, etc., he is in charge of next-generation financial planning at NTT Docomo, Inc. as of 2023/1. As a CGV FOF advisor, he was involved in establishing Crypto FOF with Huobi Ventures, Binance Labs, and Consensus Lab, and was invested in FTX, Alchemy Pay, Bitkeep, etc.