Before GB, Naoki worked for Sony and Sony Network Entertainment Int'l (US). He is the London Office Representative and head of investment operations in Europe/Israel. He focuses on startups in AI, CloudTech, cyber security, FinTech, and InsurTech.

Naoki worked for Sony as a software engineer specialised in AI and Big Data technologies. For the last 2 years in his Sony career, he worked in San Francisco as a software engineering manager of PlayStation Network.