Management Team and Contacts

Kenji Ichinose
Representative Director and CEO

Kenji Ichinose is a co-founder of Colour Code Technologies Co., Ltd. He is responsible for Company's overall business development including fundraising and planning overall strategy (other than technologies). He graduated from Tenri University in Nara prefecture in 1955, and joined TOMEN K.K. in 1955 (Toyota Tsusho as of today), one of the biggest trading companies in Japan.  Prior to founding Colour Code Technologies Co., Ltd, he was an executive vice president of a Japanese & Chinese joint venture involved in marine products.

Yoshiyuki Takura
Director and COO

Yoshiyuki Takura joined Colour Code Technologies Co., Ltd in 2006 and is responsible for Sales & Marketing. Prior to joining Colour Code Technologies Co., Ltd., he held positions on the Board of Profit Inc and Cosmo-soft, where he developed his IT solution business career. 

Tatahiro Miwa
Director and Chief Technical Officer

Tatahiro Miwa is the core researcher and inventor of Color C Code. He joined Colour Code Technologies Co., Ltd. in February 2008. Upon graduation from Kokugakuin University in 1997, he joined an advertising agency owned by a printing company where he developed detailed knowledge of colour management and code. In 2000, he designed a system called Color ID System, which became the basis of Color C Code. Since then, he has been overseeing the research and development of Color C Code.

Christopher Craney
Director and Global Licensing

Founder, former President and CEO of Colorzip Japan Inc, established in Oct. 2004. Colorzip is the exclusive licensee for ColorCode, an on-line 2D color barcode web interface solution developed by Yonsei University research laboratory in Korea.

As CEO, Chris raised £5 million in equity capital to fund operations from corporate investors such as Fuji Television, Tokyo Broadcasting, Dentsu, Mitsubishi UFG Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Adobe Systems (USA), Nippon Travel Agency, NVCC and Resona Capital. Chris also built teams in finance, engineering, marketing and sales, bringing the technology from proof-of-concept to commercialisation in Japan.

Contact:

Chris Craney
Global Licensing
Colour Code Technologies Co., Ltd.
1-29-13 6F Ecopiaza Building
Shinkawa Chuo-ku
Tokyo, Japan
T: +81-3-3551-3091
F: +81-3-3551-3098 
c.craney@colour-code-tech.co.jp