Meiko Towada founded Esampo.com in 2000 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Esampo.com and Atpark.co.jp. From 1997-1999, Ms. Towada worked at Walt Disney Television International (Asia Pacific) in Hong Kong, where she was the Regional Marketing Manager responsible for launching the Disney Channel for the Japanese market and also marketing Disney programs in China and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Disney, Ms. Towada worked as a senior consultant for At Kearney based out of Hong Kong and for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Tokyo, Japan.
As a consultant, she focused on market entry strategies for Japan and Greater China for US firms representing a variety of industries including FMCG business. She holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from International Christian University in Japan. Ms. Towada is Japanese with Chinese heritage, bilingual in English and Japanese and fluent in Mandarin Chinese and conversational Cantonese. |