A nationally qualified Career Consultant. Born in 1975. Bachelor of Bachelor of Faculty of Policy Management [B.A.(Policy Management)], Keio University, Tokyo (1999). Yonekura first joined Japan Bank for International Cooperation and engaged in foreign direct investment research. After working for Boston Consulting Group as a researcher of the healthcare industry; including medical and pharmaceutical business, she joined Recruit Co., Ltd. and engaged in launching new business in healthcare industry and planning business in bridal industry. She resigned her post at Recruit Co., Ltd in the hope of getting more involved in female career support by using GCDF-Japan (Japan), a carrier consultant qualification authorized by CCE Inc. that she acquired in 2011. In 2013, Yonekura started Waris Co.Ltd with Miwa Tanaka and Kyoko Kawa. Yonekura has been located in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam since February 2019.

A nationally qualified Career Consultant. Born in 1978. Bachelor of Faculty of Law, Department of Politics, Keio University, Tokyo. Tanaka joined Nikkei BP in 2001, and was in charge of the magazine for women in the workforce, “Nikkei Women”, as an editor and a journalist. Tanaka has interviewed and conducted research on more than 30,000 women in the workforce. Tanaka resigned her post at Nikkei BP in 2012 in order to focus more on helping women live in a way that suited them. To this day, she continues to work positively. After working as a freelance writer and career counselor, she established Waris Co.Ltd in 2013 with two other CEO’s, Fumika Yonekura and Kyoko Kawa. Tanaka is an author of “Ordinary Employees Earn money as a Freelancer” and is also a director of a general incorporated organization: The Professional and Parallel Career Freelance Association. She has a serial publication: ”Career Design of The 100-year Life” in a web magazine, mi-mollet, published by Kodansha.

Born in 1984. Bachelor of Faculty of Policy Management [B.A.(Policy Management)], Keio University, Tokyo. Kawa joined Recruit Career Co., Ltd in 2007 and became engaged in job matching between the medical industry including foreign owned medical equipment manufacturers and individuals with regard to corporate sales. After Kawa moved to the Sales Planning Division as a new business consultant, she was involved in planning the whole business process and operation, defining personnel requirements, as well as forming a communication plan for recruitment to corporations that carry out mass hiring. From a personnel point of view, Kawa supported her client corporations to expand business. During her career at Recruit, she was involved in the establishment of Waris Co.Ltd on a voluntary basis, and she eventually joined the company as one of Co-CEO’s after she resigned from Recruit in June 2014. Kawa has been located in Fukuoka since April 2016.