Tetsuya Mori, Managing Director of DeNA’s Singapore office
The social and mobile gaming industry in Southeast Asia has seen a recent boom, which explains why DeNA (TYO:2432), a mobile gaming company from Japan is actively exploring opportunities in this space.
Southeast Asia might be fragmented but companies can still find gems in each country. DeNA, for example, has been very busy in Vietnam. It acquired Punch Entertainment last year, and had also recently announced a partnership with Vietnamese game studio, VNG, who will help create games for its Mobage platform.
Tetsuya Mori, managing director of DeNA’s Singapore office, is the mastermind behind DeNA’s Southeast Asia movements. While his office is based in Singapore, he often has to travel to Vietnam. Some of you might be curious to understand exactly what it is about Vietnam that has attracted DeNA to the country.
Vietnam is a big market which many of us would love to understand. So we are glad to invite Mori to one of our coffee chats to share his experiences with us. Plus, I will also pick his thoughts and opinions on social gaming startups in Southeast Asia.
Previously Mori was stationed in California for ten years, having contributed much to Nintendo and Sun Microsystems during that stint. At Sun, he was one of the co-inventors of Java 2 Micro Edition and established the de-facto standard for the mobile downloading application as director of J2ME business development. Prior to his DeNA’s appointment, he was a venture capitalist for Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, where he invested in startups.
You can catch Mori’s coffee chat with me live on stage on February 2, 1:30 – 2:00pm.
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