Conquering complexity.
Inspiring mobility.
Mission
Our society has employed various efforts to decarbonize mobility. However, most initiatives are "manufacturing focus" and not from an "operation of fleets" perspective. A widely known fact, is that the decarbonization of aviation is not achievable simply by switching aircraft and fuels to those with lower carbon emissions. We aim to innovate mobility by optimizing the "operation of fleets" with technology.
Values
Integrity
We incessantly ask questions; Why do we tackle these issues? What do we want to achieve as a result? How do we prepare ourselves as a member of the team making innovation? Mobility is a critical and complex industry that consists of the foundation of society.
To inspire this area, we believe Integrity is a key - Coming with our vision, Integrity in the issues and in the people we collaborate with is underlying each of our decisions.
State of the art
As a team that truly believes in technology's potential, we endeavor the technological state-of-the-art. But that does not mean we do not seek a space to adapt proven tools to solve the issues.
Solving issues most effectively and practically, we combine both innovative solutions leveraged the latest technologies and proven solutions with a solid track record." State-of-the-art" to us is the way we solve the issues.
Bold
We have no hesitation in iterating trial and error by attempting eye-opening perspectives and adopting new technology. In the meantime, we value safety the most to avoid any tiny odds of dangers.
We boldly seek to achieve both of these ambivalent values - this boldness is at the core of our team.
Meet the Team
Shinji Tanaka
Founder & CEO-
Shinji Tanaka founded NABLA Mobility in 2021. Before founding NABLA Mobility, Shinji worked as a project manager in BCG (Tokyo & Atlanta) for 7 years, supporting corporate strategy development, M&A, and operational transformation of various global companies. He also worked as an aircraft engine engineer at IHI for 3 years. Shinji had finished his internship at Max-Planck Institute in Germany.
Shinji holds a Master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from both MIT and the University of Tokyo respectively.
Makoto Sato
Co-Founder & CTO-
Makoto Sato co-founded NABLA Mobility in 2021. Before co-founding a company, he worked as a software engineer and data scientist in various layers and startup companies. He also served as a CTO at several startups.
Makoto holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo.
Kazuhiro Hiramoto
Board member & Software Engineer-
Kazuhiro "Kazu" Hiramoto joined NABLA Mobility as a software engineer. Before joining the company, Kazu worked as a software & algorithm engineer at Morpho, Inc. for 10 years. He was responsible for algorithm development and project management for HW implementation of image processing and acceleration with digital signal processing.
He also worked as a Software engineer & researcher in NEC for 5 years, where his focus was researching high-level design tools (CyberWorkBench) of LSI.
Kazu holds a Master's degree in Information Science from the University of Tokyo.
Sang young Lee
General Manager of Business Development-
Sang young "Sang" Lee joined NABLA Mobility in a Business Development role. Before joining the company, he worked as a project manager at a start-up company.
Sang also worked as a Consultant at BCG Tokyo office for 4 years with project experience for Japan, Korea, North America, and UAE. Prior to that, he worked as a finance associate at Mitsubishi Corporation for 3 years. Sang has ample experience in strategy & business development, marketing, and finance & accounting.
Sang holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo.
Louis Duvigneau
Software Engineer-
Louis Duvigneau joined NABLA Mobility as a Software Engineer. Before joining the company, Louis worked as a machine learning engineer at Move Digital AG, a Swiss fintech startup where he led several AI projects in the quants team. Louis has thorough expertise in machine/deep learning algorithm design and implementation.
Louis holds a Master's degree in applied mathematics from the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL).
Adam Linthwaite
Product Designer-
Adam Linthwaite is a Product Designer at NABLA Mobility.
Before joining the company, Adam held diverse product & UI/UX design roles in Canada and Japan for more than 10 years. He worked as a UI/UX designer for numerous Canadian companies and co-founded a startup company developing public data visualization.
Adam was the product design lead at the Japanese fin-tech company Origami and supported various startups' product design as an advisor and consultant.
Adam holds a Master's degree in Asia Pacific Studies (MAPS) from the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Guillaume Jestin
Software Engineer-
Guillaume Jestin joined NABLA Mobility as a Software Engineer. Previously at Trekea in Paris, France, Guillaume contributed to innovative projects and software design. In his previous role, Guillaume played a crucial part in modernizing software applications, improving their performance, and enhancing end-user experiences.
Guillaume holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from the Paris Sorbonne University.
Minoru Nakano
Software Engineer-
Minoru Nakano joined Nabla Mobility as a Software Engineer. Before joining the company, Minoru worked as a software developer at a computational biology lab at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre at University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. In his previous role, Minoru developed web applications to assist researchers and clinicians in mining and visualizing cancer genomics data and built a web-based platform to ensure provenance and transparency in processing multimodal cancer data.
Minoru holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from McGill University and a Diploma of Technology in Computer Systems from BCIT.
Li Bai
Software Engineer-
Li Bai joins Nabla Mobility as a Software Engineer. Prior to this, she spent 2.5 years as a Data Scientist at ConWX, a renewable energy forecasting company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and 1.5 years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, focusing on energy forecasting and market design.
She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, as well as a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
Masashi Nozaki
General Manager of Business Development-
Masashi Nozaki serves in a Business Development role at NABLA Mobility.
Prior to joining the company, Masashi accumulated 10 years of experience at Dai-ichi Life, where he undertook a variety of roles. Notably, he was one of founding members of the company's Silicon Valley office in California, where he spent five years focusing on business development. Following this, he worked as a venture investor in Japan for two years in Dai-ichi Life, which has a startup investment portfolio of more than 70 companies.
Masashi holds a B.A. in Politics with International Relations from the University of York.
Igor Segrovets
Software Engineer-
Igor Segrovets joined NABLA Mobility as a Software Engineer. Before joining the company, Igor conducted research in areas relating to computational fluid dynamics and scientific software development with project partners including The University of Queensland Research Centre Hypersonics, KEIO Media Design School, and RIKEN Center for Computational Sciences.
Igor holds a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Mariana Ferreira
Software Engineer-
Mariana is a Data Scientist at NABLA Mobility. Prior to joining the company, she worked on various projects and in different industries as a data scientist at McKinsey & Company and as a business consultant at Mastercard Advisors in São Paulo, Brazil.
Mariana holds a Bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Universidade de São Paulo.
Cissy Yuan
UI/UX Designer-
Cissy is a Junior UI/UX designer at NABLA Mobility. Before she joined, she worked as a web/UI designer lead at Fantuan Delivery in Vancouver. Cissy has also worked at various experiential agencies as an environmental designer in New York.
Cissy holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Joel Ekelund
Software Engineer-
Joel Ekelund joined NABLA Mobility as a Software Engineer. Before joining the company, Joel worked as a data scientist, developing machine learning solutions in natural language processing and computer vision for global tech companies. His work has focused on text classification, similarity matching, and image analysis, leveraging machine/deep learning to solve complex problems.
Joel holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics from Lund University.
Jonathan Sanjay
Advisor-
Jonathan is a product and business development advisor to NABLA Mobility. He is currently a Group Senior Manager of Projects, Development and Efficiency at AirAsia. “Jon” is an accomplished professional with 15 years of expertise in airline operations, cost reduction, and fuel savings and has led projects for optimizing operations and driving revenue. His achievements include setting up new airline entities, leading aircraft and cabin selection, managing seamless aircraft entry-into-service and delivering substantial fuel and environmental savings. Jon holds a Bachelor of Air Transportation Management (Swinburne University).
Mike Hulley
Senior Advisor-
Mike Hulley is a Senior Advisor to NABLA Mobility. He is currently the CEO of Aileron Strategic Advisors, LLC and does executive consulting, due diligence for M&A transactions, and is on several boards. Before his current position, he was CEO and president of NAVBLUE, an Airbus company, one of the global majors in the flight operation solution space. Prior to that, he held many senior executive positions for over 35 years in the aviation industry, including President and Global Leader of Travel and Transportation at EDS (9000 employees), Global VP of Travel and Transport at IBM (3500 employees), VP of T&T at Siemens Nixdorf, and United and Delta Airlines.
Mike is DEC Fellow in AI, holds Senior Executive Graduate Certificates from both Harvard and Columbia, and did his undergraduate work in Civil Engineering at MSU. He is a winner of the Lou Gerstner strategy award for post-9/11 work and was a contributing editor of the US Intelligent Transportation Systems plan for the US Secretary of Transportation.
Yuki Yasuda
Software Engineer (Part-time)-
Yuki Yasuda joined NABLA Mobility as a software engineer. Before joining the company, he worked as a software engineer in a startup company for 1.5 years. Yuki also worked as a Quants for financial products in an investment bank for 3 years. Yuki is also doing his post-doctoral research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is focusing on applying machine learning technologies to the weather prediction area.
Yuki holds a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Tokyo.
Head Office
511 Nissan Building, 4-8-6 Iidabashi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0072, Japan