Motoi Nakazato

About

Motoi Nakazato is a media business operator and business school educator serving as Senior Executive Officer, COO and CHRO of the NewsPicks Business at Uzabase in Tokyo. He started his career in 2001 at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consultants, then worked as a strategy consultant and project manager at Mercer Japan and Corporate Directions (CDI). From 2010 he was a turnaround manager at the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan, which sent him to serve as a director of the regional bus operator Aizu Bus. He joined Livesense in 2014, held division head roles there and became a director in 2017. He is also a visiting professor at Globis University's Graduate School of Management, teaching critical thinking and facilitation and negotiation. Motoi brings a consultant-turned-operator perspective on business operations, organization and people management, corporate turnaround, and M&A. The role provides direct exposure to how a subscription media business is run day to day and how its teams are hired, organized and developed. Motoi is particularly relevant to conversations around scaling operations, building and leading teams, turning around struggling businesses, and structured thinking and negotiation for managers.