Our Team

Our consultants at Ryze all have extensive recruiting experience in the Japanese market and can accurately deliver the most valuable candidates for your company. Our search capabilities allow us to find and selectively introduce top-notch candidates to support your hiring process quickly and efficiently.

William DeLorme

President, Co-Founder

William DeLorme came to Japan in 2002 and established his career as a human resources consultant based in Tokyo. In the past almost 20 years, he was the leader of Japan’s top recruiting team for globa…

David Solway

Vice President, Co-Founder

David is a co-founder of Ryze Consulting and has over 15 years of executive search experience in Japan. As a recruiting consultant David has a uniquely successful track record in various industries …

Sakura Sato

Vice President Operations, Co-Founder

Sakura Sato has a strong background with foreign-affiliated businesses in Japan. She started her career in a global Japanese technology company. In 2004 she moved to Tokyo where she start…

Mayu Hatano

Partner

Mayu is a Partner at Ryze Consulting. With a strong background in Technology Industry Sales, she has established herself as a top-notch customer-focused recruitment consultant. Mayu demonstrates a true talent to c…

Naoya Atarashi

Director

Naoya Atarashi oversees the manufacturing and logistics industries in general. He possesses particular expertise in factory automation, process automation, and logistics automation in the era of Industry 4.0 a…

Rihito Nakajima

Director

Rihito is a fully bilingual (Japanese and English) expert in Information Communications Technology. He specializes in Asia Pacific recruiting for the 5G, Cloud, SaaS, AI, Data, IoT and Cybersec…

Kimo Blackmore

Director

Kimo is a passionate executive search professional with experience recruiting for Sales, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, among others in SaaS, Marketing, DX (Digital Transformation) and Security Solu…

Jason Rucker

Director

My practice is focused on helping clients and candidates reach their business goals. I studied philosophy of science and technology and started my career in technical recruiting in Silicon Valley. I feel so lucky to …

Miho Sato

Sales Development Specialist

Miho brings extensive knowledge from years of experience in executive search, IT and the hospitality industries to her roles as Sales Development Specialist at Ryze Consulting, focusing on searching …

Masako Higashino

Sales Development Specialist

I have worked in the foreign financial and real estate industry for many years. I hope to be able to help those who are taking on new challenges by making use of my various knowledge and exper…

Kohki Enomoto

Sales Development Specialist

I have lived abroad, Brazil and gained a master’s degree from a foreign university on the dean’s list. After graduation, I welled in various industries such as a financial, social welfare and pub…