Arisa Chelsea Ueno

Born in the U.S. and raised in Japan, after earning brand marketing experience at Red Bull, and Arisa entered the business world. She has 13+ year experience in new market entry / business development at fast-growing tech companies such as NY-based healthcare startup Noom (Unicorn since 2021), and StockX (Unicorn since 2019). Especially as the first hire at Shopify(NYSE: SHOP), she wore multiple hats to establish the business in the Japanese market from the very early stages working cross-functionally between the headquarters and Japan. After learning design thinking and luxury management at Politecnico di Milan as a part of MBA program in Italy, she is currently leading Web3 investment and manage accelerator programs, bridging startup and investor communities. She is co-living with 100 entrepreneurs from all over the world at Draper University in Silicon Valley.