OFFLINE RECRUITING EVENT] MEET-UP WITH UPWARD'S RAPIDLY GROWING SALES TEAM

(Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Ryusuke Kaneki; hereinafter "UPWARD") will hold a recruiting event "Offline Talk with UPWARD Enterprise AE (Former Japanese SaaS Sales Manager) and Youngest General Manager! (former Japanese SaaS sales manager) on Thursday, May 15, 2025.

A company presentation of UPWARD, a fast-growing SaaS startup, and a talk by a member of the active sales team about their true feelings and realities. Why are former top salespeople from foreign companies joining UPWARD? What is the appeal of UPWARD? This is an opportunity to hear directly from the people involved offline.

Event Summary

• Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025, 19:00 start (doors open at 18:30) - 21:00 end *Participants may enter and exit during the event.
• Location: UPWARD K.K. Head Office (directly connected to Tokyo Station/Otemachi Station)
  26F Marunouchi Eiraku Building, 1-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
• Application: https://connpass.com/event/352845/
• Admission: Free (including reception)

Recommended for

• Those who want to improve their career as a sales person in a Japanese SaaS company.
• Interested in enterprise sales?
• Are currently a manager or would like to take on the challenge of becoming a manager
• Those who want to grow overwhelmingly at a young age.
• Those who are concerned about their future career as a sales person.
• THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN UPWARD

Profile of Speakers

Hiroto Wakaizumi, GENERAL MANAGER, CORPORATE SALES DEPARTMENT, UPWARD CO.

AFTER GRADUATING FROM KANSAI UNIVERSITY, HE JOINED DAIWA SECURITIES CO. IN 2018. TOKUSHIMA BRANCH, WHERE HE WORKED IN RETAIL SALES. JOINED UPWARD IN 2020 AS A FIELD SALESMAN. IMMEDIATELY EXPERIENCED CS DUE TO SYSTEM CHANGE AT CORONA VORTEX. THEN PROMOTED ALL THE WAY FROM SMB TO GB RANGE AS AE, AND PROMOTED TO HEAD OF CORPORATE SALES DEPARTMENT IN JULY 2024. EXPERIENCED IN BUSINESS EXPANSION FOR COMPANIES WITH ABOUT 40 TO 100 EMPLOYEES.

KEISUKE SHIMADA, ENTERPRISE SALES DEPARTMENT, UPWARD CO.

In 2014, he joined Innoventure Inc. as a new graduate. In 2018, he joined Hacobu Corporation, a logistics startup, where he was in charge of SMB to enterprise sales, and later became a sales manager. and MM area sales, and then became the head of the sales department for the same area. In February 2025, he joined UPWARD Corporation as an Enterprise AE.