Naomi Kokubo
Entrepreneur
Naomi Kokubo is the Publisher & Cofounder of Founders Space. She is also a partner in LavaMind, a developer and publisher of online games and entertainment. Before this, she was the COO and acting CFO of RocketOn (now Hyperlayers), a venture-funded virtual world & social media startup. Prior to that, she was Development Director at Electronic Arts, where she managed the development process for multimillion dollar video game titles. From 1998 – 2002, she was COO and acting CFO of Spiderdance, Hollywood’s leading interactive television studio, whose customers included NBC, Viacom, Time Warner, TBS, GSN and A&E. Before this, she worked at Morgan Stanley’s Tokyo Branch as a Financial Analyst. Kokubo has also worked in the film business, coordinating an international film co-production for NHK of Japan and Grundy Company of Australia. She is a graduate of ICU in Tokyo, Japan. She also has a passion for manga and anime, and has translated dozens of Japanese comic books and animations.
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