enechain Accelerates Multi-Product Innovation with New Leadership Team to Scale Energy Marketplace

TOKYO – enechain Corporation today announced key additions to its executive leadership team alongside the appointment of prominent global senior advisors.  Effective July 1, 2026, the strategic appointments are designed to enhance organizational governance, solidify information security, and accelerate development across the company's expanding suite of energy marketplace platform.

The leadership expansion comes at a pivotal moment as the energy sector faces heightened geopolitical risks and critical climate change challenges. Securing stable power procurement and cost optimization has become a universal mandate for businesses and consumers alike. Improving liquidity and ensuring transparency in wholesale markets are critical industry-wide priorities, alongside the decarbonization of energy. Armed with a cumulative Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) nearing 3 trillion JPY and a recent 5.05 billion JPY Series B extension funding round, enechain is rapidly scaling its technology investments, centered around its core wholesale marketplace platform, "eSquare Live".

To capitalize on these growth opportunities, enechain has appointed new Chief Officers (CxOs), Executive Officers, and Specialist Officers. Notably, the company welcomes Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and RJ Cummings, former Head of Development at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), as Senior Advisors to provide world-class institutional and technical expertise. For more information about Chris and RJ’s appointment, read the press release. 

Executive Leadership Team (As of July 1, 2026):

• Ryo Nozawa, Representative Director and CEO 

• Hideaki Kato, Divisional Executive officer and Executive Vice President 

• Yuki Yabuuchi, Board Director and CFO 

• Seita Otsu, Executive Officer, Representative Director of eClear 

• Yusuke Suto, Executive Officer and CTO 

• Tadayoshi Tarui, Executive Officer and CRevO (Chief Revenue Officer) and Head of CEO Office 

• Tomoya Arai, Executive Officer, Representative Director of eXstend 

• Keiya Ohashi, Executive Officer and CPO (Chief Product Officer), Representative Director of eSquare. 

• Leem Mangi, Executive Officer and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) 

• Miyoko Suzuki, Executive Officer and Head of Power Brokerage Division 

• Takayuki Hasegawa, Executive Officer and Head of Product Development

• Yuki Kawamoto, Specialist Officer, COO of eClear 

• Hiromasa Takaura, VP of HR 

• Yo Nagami, Board Director 

• Masako Takahashi, Corporate Auditor 

Profiles of Newly Appointed Executives:

Leem Mangi 

Executive Officer and CISO

A veteran with over 25 years of cybersecurity experience, Leem Mangi previously served as Executive Officer and CISO at LINE Corporation, overseeing cybersecurity infrastructure across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. He also drove risk management and compliance as Chief Risk Officer and CISO for LINE Pay Corporation, and later served as Security CTO at LINE Yahoo Corporation. He holds the world’s premier information security certification, CISSP.

Miyoko Suzuki

Executive Officer and Head of Power Brokerage Division 

Miyoko Suzuki began her career at Mitsubishi Corporation, where she was engaged in overseas EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) projects and power infrastructure development across Asia. During her two assignments in Taiwan, she served as a project manager, leading the commercial side of large-scale coal-fired and gas-fired power plant constructions. She subsequently contributed to the promotion of offshore wind power projects and the establishment of a joint venture with a domestic utility company. With a broad professional background in energy, spanning from infrastructure construction to business development, she joined enechain in January 2022. Suzuki holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Ritsumeikan University.

Takayuki Hasegawa

Executive Officer and Head of Product Development

Takayuki Hasegawa specialized in Natural Language Processing at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, with research accepted by ACL, the field’s premier international conference. Joining GREE, Inc. in 2013, he led the development of large-scale SNS platforms serving tens of millions of users, alongside the company-wide big data infrastructure. He later managed business and engineering organizations as a subsidiary director before joining enechain in April 2023, where he previously served as General Manager of Product Development.

Yuki Kawamoto

Divisional Executive officer, COO of eClear
Following tenures at Nomura Research Institute and PGF Life Insurance, Yuki Kawamoto managed IT transformation and digital strategy formulation for major power and insurance companies at Boston Consulting Group. Since joining enechain in June 2021, he built the risk management system "eScan" from the ground up. As COO of eClear, he now drives business strategy, product development, and organizational growth linking physical and forward electricity markets.

Hiromasa Takaura

VP of HR

Hiromasa Takaura began his career at Daiwa Securities, specializing in bond and interest rate derivatives trading alongside debt capital markets underwriting across APAC and Europe. He subsequently served as Head of Sales at dataX, transitioning to a finance lead to spearhead large-scale fundraising and investor relations. In 2020, he joined Unifa and served as an Executive Officer, managing corporate functions and executing capital strategies, while also leading the HR domain, spanning recruitment, HR system design, and organizational development. He joined enechain in July 2026.

About enechain

enechain is a startup operating Japan’s energy forward marketplace, with a cumulative transaction value of almost 3 trillion JPY. From electricity and fuels to environmental values, enechain’s goal is to build fair marketplaces where participants can trade a broad range of energy products including power, fuels, and environmental commodities.

In addition to its marketplace business, enechain offers a range of integrated tools to support energy trading, including supply-demand balancing solutions, data solutions, and energy trading and risk management software (ETRM) tailored to the needs of market participants.

enechain’s shareholders include global venture investors such as DCM Ventures, Soros Capital Management, and Coreline Ventures, as well as strategic investors from Japan’s energy and financial sectors.

For more information, please visit: enechain.co.jp/en.