Frontia Corporation - Venture Incubation & support in central Japan

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Corporate Profile

Located in Okazaki City in central Japan, Frontia Corporation (Japanese name is InterFrontia) was established in 1999 to provide an entrepreneurial climate for several internet based projects that had been developed inside the Hattori Group of companies. The company continues to have close links with the Hattori Group through Yamasa Corporation, which provided a substantial share of the initial seed capital and remains the largest shareholder (%). The current capitalization is 30,000,000 yen.

An unusual feature of the company is its international focus - several of the projects were developed by Declan Murphy (Managing Director) while working for Yamasa Corporation - and the clientele includes individuals, companies and universities in Japan and around the world. Frontia's Venture Incubator is one of only a few privately managed incubators in Japan, and concentrates on internet based, customer service oriented development projects in several languages.

Core Competencies

Frontia's core competencies include:

Venture Incubation management and insiderization

Design, construction and hosting of fastloading and databased backed usability focussed multilingual websites, with full e-commerce functions

Customized multimedia and iMarketing services

Management Team

Yoshio Hattori - President

Hattori Yoshio

Yoshio Hattori

Chairman of the Hattori Group of companies in Okazaki, Yoshio Hattori invested in and became President of Frontia after participating in the Mikawa Smart Valley Network forums of the Okazaki City Chamber of Commerce and from observing IT developments within Yamasa Corporation. An alumni of Northwestern University (USA), Yoshio Hattori brings to Frontia many years of business experience in manufacturing and finance.

Declan Murphy - Managing Director

Declan Murphy

Declan Murphy

Declan Murphy is Frontia's full-time Director and supervises all day to day operations. A former industrial engineer and technical translator, Declan developed several internet based businesses inside Yamasa Corporation that formed the initial core projects inside the Incubator. An alumni of Macquarie University (Australia), Declan brings to Frontia 10 years of project management in Japan and abroad.

Directors:

Mr. Mutsumi Obara (President: Obara Construction Limited)
Mr. Ryouji Niwa (President: KK Niwa Ironworks)
Mr. Hideo Hattori (Managing Director: Hattori Kogyo Limited)

Auditors:

Noriaki Hattori
Shunei Makino

Chief Engineer:

Mr. Tomas Cermak

Corporate Services Manager:

Mr. Tatsuya Kato

Incubator/Marketing Manager

Mr Jon Walden