Qz founded SPARROWS Inc. in 2016. He used to manage all online ad services as COO of AOL Platforms Japan in 2015. He joined AOL Online Japan as managing director of Adap.tv Japan for online video ad market launch in Japan in September, 2013. He had been leading Brightcove's operations in Japan and drive overall customer acquisition efforts targeted at Japanese media companies and marketers since 2008. He run Paygent, JV of DeNA and MUFG, for two years as president and CEO. Prior to Paygent, Qz worked in three different senior management positions for Macromedia KK. Before Macromedia KK, Qz had engaged in various IT businesses over 14 years with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. including 3 years in Mitsui France. He holds BA in law from the University of Tokyo.
Katz is an expert of system managment of MySQL, Apache and Linux and programming in HTML, JQuery, JavaScript, CSS and PHP etc. Katz served as senior engineer at AOL Online Japan from 2013 through 2015. Before joining AOL, he was a principal engineer at Brightcove. He had worked as an engineer in Macromedia, Cookpad and otehr IT projects since 2003. He received BA in ecological engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology.