Founder & CEO
A graduate of the Academy of Economics, Bucharest, Romania, and of online courses from MIT and Harvard, Mark has over 20 years of experience as an engineer, freelancer and entrepreneur. He joined the Japanese startup XICA in 2018 as Team Lead of Engineering, and founded Kawa Code (formerly Peer8) in 2020. He holds a Japanese patent (JP 7150002) for real-time intersection detection in collaborative coding.
Business Development
Having worked at Adobe and Facebook, and managing sales at a Silicon Valley startup, Daisuke has taken an active role in supporting and co-founding startups both in Japan and overseas, with two successful ones reaching Nasdaq level. He is also a strategist at Yahoo Japan and has broad experience with Japanese startups and the investment market.