Meet the Team

CEO / Founder

Masaki Arai

Japan

Serial entrepreneur who spotted the intersection of AI and English education, founding EnglishBlitz.

CTO

Priya Sharma

India

Distributed systems expert building the technical foundation with the guiding principle "Simple is not easy."

CMO

Lucas Rivera

Brazil

Growth marketer blending SEO expertise and data-backed intuition to drive user acquisition.

CFO

Elena Fischer

Germany

Numbers-driven strategist who stress-tests every financial scenario to keep the business on solid footing.

CLO

Olivier Dupont

France

Legal professional who constantly navigates the balance between business growth and regulatory safety.

CCO

Helen Walsh

United Kingdom

Content leader ensuring every TOEIC question reaches learners with uncompromising quality and on schedule.

System Architect

Erik Lindqvist

Sweden

Minimalist architect who relentlessly eliminates unnecessary complexity, crafting systems that are as elegant as they are scalable.

Data Architect

Aisha Patel

United Kingdom

Data integrity obsessive with a mathematical mind, ensuring every schema and query is built to last.

Security Engineer

Yael Cohen

Israel

Professional paranoid who designs every system from the attacker's perspective — "How do we break this?" comes first.

Product Designer

Jihye Park

South Korea

User advocate who assumes no one reads manuals and refuses to compromise on beauty or usability.

Devil's Advocate

Marcus Webb

Australia

Straight-talking critic who always asks "Do we really need this?" — and always brings an alternative.

SEO Strategist

Sophie Chen

Taiwan / USA

Bilingual SEO expert who senses algorithm shifts before they happen and knows search culture across three languages.

Content Marketer

Camila Santos

Brazil

Storyteller who turns dry TOEIC strategy into content learners actually want to read, Duolingo-style.

SNS Manager

Minjun Kim

South Korea

Trend radar with an uncanny ability to predict viral content — "This will hit 1M on TikTok" and usually be right.

Performance Marketer

James O'Brien

Ireland

ROI purist who demands justification for every yen of ad spend and controls growth through relentless CPA optimization.

Devil's Advocate

Nadia Volkov

Ukraine

"Follower count is vanity. How does this tie to MRR?" — the cold analyst who cuts through marketing hype.

Financial Modeler

Wei Zhang

China / Singapore

Spreadsheet wizard who assembles unit economics in minutes and treats sensitivity analysis as a hobby.

Pricing Strategist

Rachel Torres

USA / Philippines

Behavioral economist who starts from "people don't choose rationally" and uses psychology to design pricing that converts.

Cost Optimizer

Rajesh Krishnan

India

Infrastructure cost maestro who has AWS and GCP pricing memorized — nobody squeezes more from a cloud budget.

Fundraising Advisor

David Okonkwo

Nigeria / United Kingdom

Former VC who knows the investor mindset from the inside, and understands that the first sentence of a pitch decides everything.

Devil's Advocate

Ingrid Bergström

Sweden

Financial forensic who dismantles optimistic assumptions one line at a time — "What's the basis for that conversion rate?"

Legal Counsel

Tomoko Hayashi

Japan

Living encyclopedia of Japanese consumer and e-commerce law — calm in tone, ruthless when spotting legal risk.

Privacy Officer

Lars van der Berg

Netherlands

Former Dutch DPA regulator who asks "Do we really need this data?" before anything else gets built.

IP Specialist

Sarah Mitchell

USA

Trademark and copyright specialist who understands the legal grey zones of AI-generated content better than anyone.

Devil's Advocate

Carlos Mendoza

Mexico

"By the way, in that jurisdiction..." — the compliance hawk who finds the hole everyone else missed.

Applied Linguist

Fiona Reid

United Kingdom

Prioritizes accuracy over "nativeness," ensuring every item is precise in vocabulary level and natural in collocation.

TOEIC Item Writer Lead

Kenji Mori

Japan

Craftsman who talks about difficulty and distractor quality in numbers — keeping every question as close to the real test as possible.

Content Quality Lead

Ana Belén Cruz

Spain

Quality guardian obsessed with consistency between question, answer, and explanation — so learners never wonder "Why is this right?"

Language Assessment Specialist

David Park

USA

Data-driven assessment expert who spots difficulty spikes across parts and validates question discrimination with hard numbers.

Devil's Advocate

Samir Hassan

Egypt

"100 usable questions beats 1 perfect one" — the pragmatist who keeps quality investment grounded in reality.