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Year: 2022

Profile #17: Raymond Murphy, Tokyo-based creator & marketing creative and now founder of the Irish apparel brand ‘Cnota Gaelach’

06/02/202206/02/2022 by Paul

Paul: Raymond Murphy is a creator and marketing creative who first arrived in Japan in 2004. He launched ‘Cnota Gaelach’, a Tokyo-based Irish apparel brand in 2021. Raymond and I … Read more

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Profile #16: John Rajeski, Silicon Valley veteran, educator, mentor, data analyst

03/28/202203/25/2022 by Paul

Paul: John Rajeski is an aspiring people / data analyst, a recent global educator, and a former Silicon Valley start-up co-founder. John and I spoke about his early career in … Read more

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Profile #15: Arnout Hemel, Product Management leader, new Tokyo resident, adventurer

03/01/202202/27/2022 by Paul

Paul: With 15+ years experience in Product Management, Arnout Hemel’s team at Grab in Singapore grew GrabInsure into one of the largest InsureTechs in South East Asia. Arnout relocated to … Read more

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Profile #14: Lawrie Cate, software developer at Tokyo travel tech startup KabuK Style

02/19/202202/17/2022 by Paul

Paul: Originally from the UK, Lawrie moved to Tokyo in 2018 to work as a software engineer at Mercari, the Japanese marketplace unicorn. Lawrie is now at travel tech startup … Read more

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Profile #13: Sushant Pandey, IoT entrepreneur & future Tokyo resident

02/18/202201/22/2022 by Paul

Paul: Sushant Pandey is the founder of Scurid, a distributed digital identity platform bringing scalable security to the world of IoT. A Shibuya Startup Visa holder, Sushant will be relocating … Read more

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Profile #12: Jatin Kumar, software developer, HR specialist & curry enthusiast

02/19/202201/11/2022 by Paul

Paul: I first learned about Jatin Kumar after stumbling upon an online post about his GoCurry community last year. I was fascinated to learn more about Jatin’s background as a … Read more

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