Miyowa's Advisory Board

Peter Hogewoning

Vice President and General Manager for seven Networks in Asia Pacific

President of CYB Investment and Senior Manager of International Business Development of CYBIRD Holdings, Peter Hogewoning is the Vice President and General Manager for Seven Networks in Asia Pacific. Before joining Seven Network, Peter was the Managing Director of GTM Partners in Hong Kong, a company he founded in  2003. Prior to GTM Partners, Peter was Regional Vice President Asia for Openwave Systems. He joined Openwave as European Sales Director and under his leadership Openwave captured a leading position in WAP and Mobile Internet applications in Europe. Earlier in his career, Peter held various leading sales positions for AT&T and Lucent Technologies in both Asia and Europe. He holds an MS degree from the Technical University in Eindhoven. Peter lives in Hong Kong and spends a good portion of his spare time on sailing race catamarans.

Hiroki Inoue
President of CYB Investment and Senior Manager of International Business Development of CYBIRD Holdings

Hiroki Inoue has an extensive international mobile contents and service background through the management of a subsidiary company in the US market as a director of the board. Prior to join CYBIRD, Hiroki was in charge of telecommunication and multimedia service of the Taiwan office of Tomen Corporation. He holds bachelor's degree in economics from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan

George Cacioppo
Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Intuit's Consumer Group

He is responsible for online, desktop, and mobile products for the Quicken and TurboTax products in the US market.  Prior to joining Intuit he was VP of Engineering at Access Systems Americas (formerly PalmSource) based in Sunnyvale, California.  He was responsible for developing mobile phones based on the Access Linux Platform and NetFront Browser.  He was also responsible for the engineering relationship with leading mobile device manufacturers based in Japan, Korea, and the Americas. George has almost 30 years of experience including 10 years at Adobe in San Jose, and 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Massachusetts.  At Adobe George was Vice President of the PostScript, Acrobat, and Framemaker development teams. George grew up in New York and loves to sail, ski, and travel. He is passionate about wireless networked devices and developing solutions that deliver information wherever and whenever you need it.

Olivier Laury
Founder & CEO Verifpro 

Olivier Laury worked for Bouygues Telecom, the third largest French GSM network, for more than 15 years. After working on the license bid, he occupied various managing positions in sales and marketing, including Sales Director, postpaid and prepaid business unit Director. In his last position, he was Director of Content. In October 2009, Olivier Laury founded Verifpro, an enabling platform for mobile and fixed internet sites. Aged 45, Olivier Laury holds a MS degree in management from M.I.T.