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Autify Inc. (Head Office: Tokyo Japan; CEO: Ryo Chikazawa) appointed Chiharu Goto as CFO (Chief Financial Officer), Takayuki Shimizu as CSO (Chief Strategy Officer), and welcomed Jun Nishida as VP of Sales and Milan Ramadev as VP of Product.
The purpose of strengthening our executive team is to establish a foundation for growth, both in terms of product and business, and further expand Autify, our platform that comprehensively supports the software development and testing processes through the combined power of AI and humans.
Chiharu Goto, CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
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I am deeply honored to be appointed CFO and am acutely aware of the importance of this role. Autify is a company with potential for growth and a high level of competitiveness in the global market, and we received much support from investors and banks in Series B. I will work closely with the executive team to maximize the ROI of the funds entrusted to us, and I will fulfill my responsibility to steer the company in a transparent and financially responsible manner.
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Chiharu joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC in 2012, where he audited and consulted startups and helped several companies go public in Japan. In 2016, he moved to Deloitte Singapore and was responsible for assisting companies in Singapore, Myanmar, and Cambodia with audit, tax, and incorporation. He was the director of a VC in Singapore before joining Autify Inc. in March 2022. As Vice President of Finance, he was responsible for financing, business planning & management, and legal affairs. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Japan and the US.
Takayuki Shimizu, CSO (Chief Strategy Officer)
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To provide even greater value to our customers and drive Autify’s growth, I am committed to creating an organization that can deliver strong results in both strategy and execution. With the addition of experienced management members, I believe our management team has become even stronger. I am looking forward to leveraging each member’s strength to build a team where all departments work together as one team for Autify’s mission and growth.
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Takayuki joined DeNA as a graduate in April 2011, developing and operating a social game software targeted towards international users. In December 2014, he joined FiNC Technologies as the first mid-career engineer to be hired by the company. He launched enterprise services and gained extensive development experience as the engineering manager, product manager, and quality department lead. He was appointed VP of Engineering in 2018, overseeing product development, revamping and managing the engineering team. He joined Autify, Inc. in July 2020.
Jun Nishida, VP of Sales
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I am honored to be appointed VP of Sales. Our mission is to make the quality assurance and development process significantly more efficient so that our clients can deliver high-quality software quickly. I look forward to working with my team to maximize the potential of AI and humans and to transform industry standards.
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Since joining KDDI in 1991, Jun has held various corporate sales and sales manager positions at companies such as Apple, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft Japan. From 2022, he oversaw sales for GoogleCloud's API Management Platform in Japan, where he worked on market expansion. He joined Autify, Inc. in August 2024.
Milan Ramadev, VP of Product
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I am excited to join a customer-first culture like Autify. As a product leader, I look forward to iterating and creating new products that our customers will love to use while incorporating long-term value and scale.
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Milan has 20 years of leadership experience in areas such as product, marketing, and analytics, including seven years as an engineer in the aerospace industry. He has worked primarily with world-leading e-commerce and fintech companies in the US, Japan, Thailand, and South Korea. Most recently, Milan was a product manager at Coupang Pay in South Korea, launching a new credit card product in October 2023. He joined Autify in 2024 and is committed to developing the best user experience from a product design perspective, leveraging rapidly evolving AI technologies.
■ At Autify, we are strengthening our entire organization
Autify is looking for people who can comprehensively support the software development and testing processes with the combined power of AI and humans and enhance our competitiveness in the marketplace.
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About Autify, our platform that comprehensively supports the software development and testing processes by harnessing the combined power of AI and people
With the mission to “Enhance people’s creativity by technology,” Autify, Inc. provides a Quality Engineering platform that comprehensively supports the software development cycle through the combined power of AI and humans. Autify CEO Ryo Chikazawa, who has extensive engineering experience both in Japan and overseas, founded the company to “create an environment where people can focus on development to quickly respond to the increasingly diverse needs of users.” Autify’s offering consists of three platforms: Autify NoCode, an AI-powered no-code test automation tool; Autify Genesis, in which generative AI automatically generates test cases; and Autify Pro Service, where Autify’s quality assurance/automation professionals support your test automation/quality assurance efforts. Autify enables users to improve the efficiency of software testing, which takes up approximately a third of IT budgets, and increases the productivity of the development organization.
Official page: https://autify.com/
About Us
Company name: Autify, Inc. (Japan Branch)
Address: 6F Cross-C Higashi Nihonbashi Building, 2 Chome-22-1 Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0004, Japan
Director: Ryo Chikazawa
Founded: September 2, 2016
Business description: Development and sales of AI-powered software testing automation and optimization solutions, and provision of quality assurance services.
Website: https://autify.com/
