Company Introduction

Founded in Japan in 2013, we are a Japanese marketing and market research technology company that helps corporate sponsors unlock value through targeted marketing campaigns while providing our corporate sponsors’ potential customers who participate in our campaigns with extended warranty coverage on durables or certain healthcare benefits sponsored by our corporate sponsors. Warrantee focuses on developing a suite of specialized marketing and market research services and these services are designed to collect and leverage targeted and specialty data of our corporate sponsors’ potential customers to provide proprietary market insights to our corporate sponsors and promote the sales of their products.

At the core of our current business of providing marketing campaign services is our trinity model, which connects three stakeholders: corporate sponsors, campaign participants, whom we also refer to as users, and Warrantee, and is designed to benefit all three stakeholders. This model is exemplified by our sponsored product insurance model used in our durables vertical. Under the sponsored product insurance model, we provide product insurance in the form of a limited extended warranty for appliances to users participating in our marketing campaigns, in exchange for their personal, purchase, or other data needed by our corporate sponsors, which we provide to our corporate sponsors for a sponsorship fee.

Our collected user data enables our corporate sponsors to gain insights on their potential customers’ purchase patterns and to help formulate their marketing strategies. In each campaign, within the covered period, if a participant user’s registered appliance breaks down, the user may elect to use the insurance coverage to pay for repair services or a replacement. Should a participant user make a claim for a replacement, such participant may only use the insurance coverage to subsidize a purchase of our corporate sponsor’s product. In this way our campaigns can potentially increase sales of our sponsors’ products. We use the sponsorship fees to cover our operational costs, including purchasing product insurance from licensed insurers for participant users. We have obtained patents in Japan for the system underlying our sponsored product insurance model, which is for us to serve as an intermediary between sponsors, insurance companies, and users and in such role, providing insurance for the users upon terms agreed by the sponsors.

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Management Team

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Yusuke Shono

Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Director

Mr. Shono is our founder and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and our representative director since October 2013 as well as the representative director of our Singapore subsidiary, Warrantee Pte. Ltd. Mr. Shono has been serving as our interim Chief Financial Officer since February 2024. Mr. Shono has expertise in data marketing and programming. Mr. Shono has served as a member of the Medical Point Promotion Council of the Ministry of International Affairs and Communications since 2012. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Kyoto University in 2013.
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Ryo Matsutani

Corporate Auditor

Mr. Matsutani has served as a corporate auditor of the Company since June 2023. Mr. Matsutani has served as a Director at One Asia Lawyers Vietnam Co., Ltd since October 2019. He worked as an in-house Legal Officer at Nitto Denko Corporation from October 2016 to September 2019 and as an in-house Legal Officer at Yahoo Japan Corporation from January 2014 to September 2016. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from Sophia University in Japan in 2010 and his Juris Doctor degree from Chuo Law School in Japan in 2013.
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Rimi Takahashi

Corporate Auditor

Ms. Takahashi has served as a corporate auditor of the Company since October 2021. Ms. Takahashi is a free-lance consultant providing services including business planning, financial strategy planning, management planning, and developing competence for small and medium enterprises and executives. Prior to her consulting role, she served as an account executive at Aoyama Sogo Accounting Firm Co., Ltd. from September 2020 to September 2021. From April 2014 to August 2020, she worked in the corporate planning and trade operations department at Itoham Foods Inc., where she analyzed the company’s internal and external performance and developed its corporate strategy. Ms. Takahashi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Nara Women’s University in 2014.
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Taeko Horiguchi

Corporate Auditor

Ms. Horiguchi has served as a corporate auditor of the Company since October 2021. Ms. Horiguchi is a principal tax accountant at Taeko Horiguchi Tax Accountant Office (“Taeko”) where she has provided tax representation, tax returns and financial consulting services since October 2009. Prior to Taeko, Ms. Horiguchi held various positions at Ernst & Young LLP’s Japan office providing business advisory services, including M&A consulting, financial due diligence, and corporate valuation. In addition, Ms. Horiguchi worked at Deloitte LLP’s Japan office, providing various tax due diligence and consulting services. Ms. Horiguchi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business from Tokyo Keizai University in 1987.

Board of Directors

Name Role
Yusuke Shono Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Director
Takashi Kato Independent Director
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Yusuke Shono

Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Director

Mr. Shono is our founder and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and our representative director since October 2013 as well as the representative director of our Singapore subsidiary, Warrantee Pte. Ltd. Mr. Shono has been serving as our interim Chief Financial Officer since February 2024. Mr. Shono has expertise in data marketing and programming. Mr. Shono has served as a member of the Medical Point Promotion Council of the Ministry of International Affairs and Communications since 2012. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Kyoto University in 2013.
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Takashi Kato

Independent Director

Mr. Kato is an independent director and has served on our board of directors since October 2021. Mr. Kato has served as the Managing Director and a director of WIPLUS Pte. Ltd., a real estate brokerage in ASEAN countries, since August 2021. In this role, Mr. Kato handled cross-border real estate transactions and provided real estate consulting services for funds and companies. Mr. Kato also served as a Senior Manager of Starts Corporate Services Ltd. from January 2021 to August 2021 and a General Manager of Starts Singapore Pte Ltd., a real estate services company, from April 2013 to December 2020.

Board Committee Composition

Director Audit Committee Compensation Committee Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Xiaochun Li (1) (1) (1)
Quanshi Chen (1) (1) (1)
Bo Lyu (1) (1) (1)

(1) Committee member

(2) Committee chair

(3) Audit committee financial expert