MEET THE TEAM
MEET THE TEAM
Get personal!
Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi, CEO
Ryotaro is a serial entrepreneur with a background in Asian trends, marketing & communication, as well as fine arts and music. He is a crossfield runner between research, strategy and production. Born as a cultural hybrid, his mission is to create a bridge to foster synergies and nourish exchange in culture, business and lifestyle between Japan and Europe.
Read Ryotaro’s NION story
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InfraLab Berlin
Ryotaro is a serial entrepreneur with a background in Asian trends, marketing & communication, as well as fine arts and music. He is a crossfield runner between research, strategy and production. Born as a cultural hybrid, his mission is to create a bridge to foster synergies and nourish exchange in culture, business and lifestyle between Japan and Europe.
Read Ryotaro’s NION story
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InfraLab Berlin
Naho Iguchi, CCC (Chief Community Catalyst)
Naho is an artist of social sculpture. It defines that any human activity is art, as long as one deliberately attempts to yield new cultures and systems out of the existing structures. NION’s philosophy and vision are the fruition of her latest art work “Journey to Lioness.”
Read Naho’s NION Story
Journey to Lioness
Naho is an artist of social sculpture. It defines that any human activity is art, as long as one deliberately attempts to yield new cultures and systems out of the existing structures. NION’s philosophy and vision are the fruition of her latest art work “Journey to Lioness.”
Read Naho’s NION Story
Journey to Lioness
Maike Hank, Content Lead
Maike ist an editor, graphic designer, digital native and multifunctional. Committed to her cats and chocolate, believing in the power of empathy and forest bathing. She wants to enrich NION with all these facets and make it grow. 夜型.
greenbox global
InfraLab Berlin
Maike ist an editor, graphic designer, digital native and multifunctional. Committed to her cats and chocolate, believing in the power of empathy and forest bathing. She wants to enrich NION with all these facets and make it grow. 夜型.
greenbox global
InfraLab Berlin
Satoru Teshima, Communication Lead
Satoru is a writer, comic sans enthusiast and a sailor moon theme song specialist. Both fluent in Japanese and English, his ambition at NION is to connect missing pieces together to integrate into new culture.
Satoru is a writer, comic sans enthusiast and a sailor moon theme song specialist. Both fluent in Japanese and English, his ambition at NION is to connect missing pieces together to integrate into new culture.
Our Partners
Prof. Mitsuhiro Takemura
Advisor & Ambassador
Fumi Murata
Advisor & Ambassador
Our Bloggers & Contributors
Amina Hikari Fall, Anika Ogosu, Anna Zschokke, Birgit Severin, Carla Langner, Dera Luce, Evi Hallermayer-Jahreiß, Fabienne Fong Yan, Felicitas Blanck, Florian Brückner, Francesco Barbati, Julian Liebig, Margaux Friocourt, Maria Moukhina, Marianna Poppitz, Mitsuo Yoshizawa, Momono Wada, Philipp Goeser, Rainer Stobbe, Rintaro Komamba, Sara Wulf, Sarah Schwarz, Taishi Nagasaka, Takanori Tayama, Wanda Proft, Wrenn Odim.
Our Supporters
AHK Japan
DJW
DZT Tokyo
German Embassy, Tokyo
IHK
JDZB
JETRO
Our Friends
Arabica Berlin-Kreuzberg
bistream
Go Sake
H.I.S Berlin
Japan Experience
Space Design Inc.
Say hi!
If you want to share your ideas, collaborate,
or just simply want to send love, drop us a line!
ohayo at nion dot berlin
