Entrepreneur Mariko Nishimura Bridges Tech and Culture
Mariko Nishimura wears many hats: programmer, marketer, media creator, businesswoman and entrepreneur. She makes them all look good, combining a high-energy, outgoing personality with a deep-seated curiosity about the world. After coming up through corporate giants like IBM and Adobe, Mariko Nishimura has been running a two-person creative consulting firm Heart Catch for nearly a decade, looping in willing players from her vast network to dream big and realize large-scale projects. Her newest venture is the startup Naro, which produces on-demand streaming courses about Japanese culture. They’v...