Ken Hoshi

Background

About Ken Hoshi

Career background of 20 years’ marketing & business development in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Ex-USSR and Europe in B to B, and 10 years’ B to C retail, marketplace & B to B start-ups at Amazon.com in Japan and currently External Director of several companies plus own consulting company. Developed fundamental business skill with JUKI group from 1989 to 2005 in plant engineering, sales & marketing, business development in ex-USSR, Eastern Europe and South Asia and increased confidence in Management skills with experiences as Managing Director of the companies in Romania, France, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. From 2005, being responsible as Managing Director for Thai subsidiary of Misumi group, successfully increased revenue from US$19 to 27 million,+42% within 3 years through strategy building and execution and at result promoted to Deputy General Manager of HQ. 18-year-experience of working overseas provided me to have skill & knowledge of Asia, Middle East & European business, establishment & management of the companies with P&L, new market development, strategy building & execution, and confidence as immediate contributor in start-up and business expansion in overseas. Metrics & data-oriented business drive with Amazon is additional skill & experience. In 2008, joined Amazon.com as Sr. Manager, Category lead to learn about US corporate governance, dynamism of consumer & retail business, state of the art E-commerce. Promoted to Director and Japan’s leadership team member only after 1 year & 9 months and being responsible for Hardlines consisting of 14 categories with revenue size of US$5 billion for 3 years. After that, having 3 years of leading Seller Service, marketplace/platform businesses with gross merchandising sales size of US$9 billion, then lastly, led Amazon Business which is B2B platform for a year from launch preparation to execution of go-to-market strategy for few billion dollars revenue in few years. Left the campany in June, 2018 and currently providing various types of consulting and seminars at own establishment, kenhoshi & Company. In 2019, published a book with title “amazon’s absolute thinking” ranked at No. 2 in business @amazon.co.jp and In 2022, 2nd book “Amazon’s continuous growth with disruptive idea” Joined Oisix ra daichi, Inc in 2020 as COO. As External Director, supporting Popsicle Inc. since 2020, Medley Inc. since 2021, AI Inside Inc. since 2021, Groove Inc. since 2022 and Social Good, Inc. since 2023, INFORICH Inc. since 2024 Adviser, Shizuoka Prefecture since 2022. Part-time Lecturer, Tokai University since 2023