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NetStrategy,Inc Founder, President and CEOThe Author of the Topseller in AMAZON JAPAN titled "The Strategy of Successful Life and Work ".The most powerful consulting firm with Harvard Business School teachers specialized in formulating Mobile and Internet corporate strategy in JapanMastermind of imode and mobile wallet service & Harvard Business School teachers collaborate for clients worldwide to assist formulating strategy for mobile internet and payment strategy.DoCoMo's payment innovator jumps ship In an important move, Carl Atsushi Hirano, a key executive behind of i-mode's alliance and payment strategies, has joined Market Platform Dynamics "to help clients devise profitable internet and mobile payment and content strategies".From 1999 until 2006, Hirano led DoCoMo's i-mode Alliances of the Multimedia Service Department and was Managing Director of DoCoMo.com, a corporate venture capital and consulting firm on mobile content, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of DoCoMo. Hirano also spearheaded i-mode's entry into the credit card business by acquiring shares of Sumitomo Mitsui Card, and contributed to a business and capital alliance with Rakuten, and a business alliance with Tower Records Japan (see previous item). Hirano was born in the US.In the thrust and disruptive dynamics as payment systems move to merchant-friendly and non-bank-associated systems Hirano will be a loss to DoCoMo and a huge gain to Market Platform Dynamics - they'll be worth tracking.http://www.imodestrategy.com/2006/09/060903_weekly_ i.html#60903-4 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Speaker at Harvard Business School Asian Business Conference 2007Wireless Telecommunications Sunday, February 11, 2007, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm http://www.asiabusinessconference.org/?q=node/29 Carl is Senior Managing Executive Officer of CA MOBILE, LTD, the leading Japanese mobile marketing venture company and Senior Advisor of Market Platform Dynamics, Inc, Counselor of Acrodea, Inc, the leading Japanese mobile software company, and also the visiting professor of the Graduate School of University of Okinawa. Widely known as the mastermind behind DoCoMo’s i-mode FeliCa service or Mobile Wallet service, from 1999-2006 he led DoCoMo’s i-mode Alliances of the Multimedia Service Department and was Managing Director of DoCoMo.com, Inc., a corporate venture capital and consulting firm on mobile content. He contributed to a business and capital alliance with Rakuten, Inc., a leading Japanese e-commerce company, and a business alliance with Tower Records Japan Inc. Carl was a member of the Board Directors at Rakuten Auction, Inc. and Tower Records Inc. Prior to joining DoCoMo, Carl worked for the Investment Bank Division of the Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd (IBJ), currently Mizuho Corporate Bank. Carl was born in the United States and received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo.