Executive Director

Paget Fabrice

パジェー ファブリス

Born in France. Joined Cartier Japan after graduating MIT. Contributed to rebuilding the brand after the collapse of Japanʼs bubble economy. Relocated to Cartier Headquarters in Paris in 2002, where he oversaw worldwide watch marketing and product development. He later relocated to London where he took up a position as CMO for De Beers and Fabergé, then established an agency with offices in London and Philadelphia offering services to clients in the design, marketing, and technology fields. In 2020, he played a role in a food delivery startup as the Operations & Marketing Director. He has also contributed as an advisor to the board of directors for Canadian tech startup, GlüxKind Technologies, and mentors entrepreneur teams in the MIT Sandbox Program. He also holds Bachelor's degrees in software engineering and statistics.

Director & Executive Board Member

Shingo Kanai

金井 新吾

Joined Kihachi and S Co., Ltd. in 1989. After transferring to Sazaby in 1995, participated in a joint venture project to establish Starbucks Coffee Japan. The next year he transferred to Starbucks Coffee Japan and experienced several different divisions before becoming an officer around the same time the company was listed on the stock exchange. After founding Antigravity as chairperson in 2007, Shingo moved to the U.S. He assumed the positions of Executive Vice President & COO at Genji Inc., a U.S. company provided sushi and Japanese cuisine. In 2010, he was appointed President & CEO of Genji Inc. Leveraging his experience in establishing businesses and running companies overseas, Shingo founded JayCorporation after returning to Japan in 2017. In 2018, he empathized with FTG Companyʼs corporate philosophy and global expansion, thus agreeing to contribute to the organization as a part-time director. In 2020, he accepted the role of a full-time officer.

Outside Auditor

Takato Ooe

大江 高都

Born on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa. While working in a managerial position for the food and beverage industry, he came to realize the importance of finance and accounting, and made up his mind to become a tax accountant. He then obtained a qualification as a tax accountant while working at an accounting firm.
After joining the Chuo Aoyama PwC Consulting Group (present day Mirai Consulting), Takato steered toward financial due diligence and corporate revitalization. After accumulating knowledge and results, he established Colorz Consulting in 2011. Based on his own life experience, Takato established financial strategies and fund procurement for growing restaurant companies, engaged in M&A and company revitalization activities on a broad scale, and battled relentlessly day in and day out alongside restaurant operators as a financial advisor.

Legal Counsel

Yoshihide Sugimoto

杉本 佳英

Born in Osaka.
Appointed auditor in 2018. Serves as Outside Auditor of Brangista Inc. (Mothers).

The people who inspire him are Toru Kenjo of Gentosha Inc.,
lyricist Yasushi Akimoto,
and the President of Nexyz Group Corporation,
Takami Kondo.

President

Lee Sun Chol

李 純哲

Born in Osaka.
After graduating university, served as store manager, supervisor, and subsidiary president for a yakiniku franchise before becoming independent at the age of 30.

Director & Executive Board Member

Makoto Morikawa

森川 誠

After experiencing failure in managing a hometown restaurant, Makoto drew upon this frustration to move to the big smoke - Tokyo.
After that, he became involved in real estate business tailored to restaurants, then right at the moment he was contemplating establishing a franchise himself, encountered the Lee brothers, empathized with their business vision, and joined FTG in 2011.

Outside Director

Kenshu Kamura

嘉村 賢州

Graduated the Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University. In 2008, established “homeʼs vi,” an NPO for conducting research on organization planning and urban planning, and served as Representative Director. Provided support for the development of a diversity of organizations, including listed companies, small-to-medium startups, and administrative organizations. After encountering the concept of evolutionary organizations such as Teal organizations in 2014, Kenshu has been involved in research on evolutionary organizations and provided actual support. He is a Specially-Appointed Associate Professor at the Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership and commentator for Reinventing Organizations – A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness (published by Eiji Press)

Vice-President

Lee Sun Bong

李 純峯

Born in Osaka.
Worked in the chiropractic business after graduating university. Later, Sun Bong served in a managerial position at the same yakiniku chain where his older brother, the current president of FTG, worked at the time, and experienced the opening of a new store before becoming independent at the age of 30.

Outside Director

Takeo Kusunose

楠瀬 丈生

After joining Nomura Securities, Takeo served as the head of Capital Markets Division of Merrill Lynch Securities, then joined the investment banking unit to serve in an advisory role for all financial and corporate strategies for Japanese companies. He has extensive experience in large-scale cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, government privatization projects, large-scale IPOs, and fundraising through equity and corporate bonds. He was the former vice
president of Merrill Lynch Japan Securities. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and completed an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.