UPWARD, Inc. (Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Keisuke Kaneki; URL:https://upward.jp), whose mission is to "Innovate the Last One Mile for Field Workers," announced on June 7, 2021, the public release of interviews with Naoki Ishida, General Manager of the Sales Division and CSO (Chief Sales Officer, Chief Sales Officer), and Akira Naomoto, Deputy General Manager of the Sales Division and General Manager of the Kansai Branch. We have announced our new sales structure to lead customers to success and our future prospects.
Amidst the demands for work style reforms and improved productivity, sales organizations are undergoing significant changes due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic since last year. UPWARD is committed to leading sales organization DX to success through mobile SFA (Sales Support System) that links with CRM (Customer Management System) and seamlessly. In March 2021, Ishida joined the company, and in April, Naomoto joined, with the aim of further business expansion.
To this end, we are releasing interviews with the two newly joined members mentioned above. Ishida, who holds the shortest promotion record at Salesforce (at the time of enrollment), and Naomoto, who has experience as a sales manager in recruiting, will discuss why they chose UPWARD as a new challenge and how they will realize their vision.
What the two have in common is that they consider "leading customers to success" as their most important mission. UPWARD will continue to promise customer success with its further strengthened new system.
[Sales Division General Manager Ishida x Sales Division Deputy General Manager and Kansai Branch Manager Naomoto Special Interview] Why Professionals in Sales Chose UPWARD as a New Challenge
https://www.upward.jp/weblog/ishida-naomoto-interview
Naoki Ishida (General Manager of the Sales Division, CSO)
After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009, joined Internet Security Co., Ltd., a company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. After engaging in marketing and sales for new businesses in an in-house venture organization, started his own business. In 2015, joined Salesforce.com Co., Ltd. After working as an Inside Sales, Account Executive, and Sales Manager, served as a branch manager. Subsequently, at Slack Japan Co., Ltd., was responsible for the enterprise area, focusing on the automobile and high-tech industries, and joined UPWARD in March 2021.
Akira Naomoto (Deputy General Manager of the Sales Division and General Manager of the Kansai Branch)
After graduating from Doshisha University's Faculty of Commerce in 2002, joined Nippon Telecom Co., Ltd. (now SoftBank Corp.) and engaged in corporate sales of inter-company networks. In 2004, joined Recruit Co., Ltd. After experiencing corporate sales in the HR field, served as a sales manager for sales promotion to restaurants in the daily consumption area for 10 years in the Chushikoku and Kansai areas, leading five organizations. Subsequently, as a sales manager for four years, oversaw approximately 200 sales staff in the Kansai, Tokai, and major regional cities. Joined UPWARD in April 2021.
"UPWARD" is a next-generation mobile SFA that supports the on-site sales activities of mobile workers as a "sales activity partner." As of June 7, 2021, it has been introduced to approximately 300 companies, mainly large listed companies, and provides an input interface for easily accumulating information obtained through sales activities on-site. By utilizing location information and automatically placing the entered information on a map in conjunction with customer information, it supports the determination of priority and urgent sales plans.
For more information about UPWARD, please visit here.
https://www.upward.jp/
Company Name: UPWARD, Inc.
Location: The Park Rex Komamicho 2nd Building 3F, 11-9 Nihonbashi Komamicho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO, President and Representative Director, Takatoshi Kaneki
Established: March 2002
Capital: 100 million yen
Business Description: Development and provision of UPWARD, a next-generation SFA service for mobile workers, UPWARD AGENT, and UPWARD BOARD.
URL: https://www.upward.jp/
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UPWARD, Inc. Marketing Department, PR Team
TEL: 080-5183-1814
Mail: pr@upward.jp
UPWARD CO., LTD. PROVIDES DX SERVICES SPECIALIZED IN SOLVING ISSUES OF FIELD WORKERS WHO VISIT THE FIELD AND CREATE VALUE THROUGH OFFLINE CONTACT WITH CUSTOMERS, BASED ON ITS PURVIEW OF "DRAWING OUT THE CREATIVITY OF FIELD WORKERS AND ACCELERATING THE GROWTH OF COMPANIES AND SOCIETY". BY LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WORKERS CAN PERFORM THEIR TASKS WITH A SINGLE MOBILE DEVICE, WE AIM TO CREATE A WORLD IN WHICH THEY CAN BE ACTIVE REGARDLESS OF WHERE AND HOW THEY WORK.
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