PRESIDENT & CEOKo Orita
Ko Orita
President & CEO
Ko began his career in 1991 as an account executive in the international division of Dai-Ichi Kikaku (now ADK), one of Japan's major advertising agencies. He has spent his career since then supporting partnerships and marketing between Western and Japanese companies across the advertising, media, and technology industries. In 2000, he founded Digital Media Strategies, LLC in Seattle
- Founding advisor to ad:tech Tokyo, Asia's largest digital advertising conference; advisory board member 2009–2016
- Advisory board member, Agile Media Network (2007–2014)
- Named one of Japan's "11 Alpha Bloggers"; his industry blog was read by executives across Japan's marketing and media industry
- Frequent speaker at industry conferences and corporate seminars in Japan
- Executive Vice President, Aperza, a platform for the manufacturing industry
- Advisor, Omnibus, a marketing platform company
- Member of a Seattle-based angel investment group
- Doshisha University (Electronics Engineering) / Seattle Pacific University (BA, Communications)