mromaine

Born in Boston to an American father and Japanese mother. Lived in the North East U.S., Tokyo, and London before finally settling in Tokyo from ages 6 to 14. Attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Brown University, and received a Masters in music from Stanford University before returning to Tokyo in 2002 to join Sony. Started in R&D studying multi-channel audio streaming applications, moved to consumer product development, and then joined the Corporate Technology Strategy Group when Howard Stringer was appointed CEO. In 2007 I founded Majides, Inc. - a Web-Services development company and unification brand for incubation projects MiiStation, KiraKiraJin, and 2kurabe. MiiStation was reviewed in the WallStreet Journal and awarded a Time.com Best 50 Website in 2007. Currently developing Gengo (http://gengo.com), the most efficient human-powered translation platform with an API on the web.