(Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Ryusuke Kaneki; hereinafter "UPWARD") announces that Shigeki Komori, former Vice Chairman of Salesforce Japan, Inc. has been appointed as Executive Advisor in June 2025.
In 1982, he joined Hewlett-Packard Japan. 2009, he became Director and Managing Executive Officer. 2012, he became Senior Managing Executive Officer, responsible for Enterprise Group Sales. 2014, he became Representative Director and Executive Vice President. 2015, he became Vice President of salesforce.com, Inc. (now Salesforce.com, Inc.) as Vice President. As leader of the Enterprise Business Division, he is responsible for operations in the major enterprises, public sector, and regions outside the Kanto region.
UPWARD provides a cloud service (SaaS) that automates the recording of customer contact activity data specialized for field sales and makes next-action activities in the field intuitive, based on its mission of "revolutionizing the last mile in the field," and has recently welcomed Mr. Komori as an executive advisor to further strengthen its business structure. Mr. Furumori has been an executive advisor to the company for a long time and has been involved in the development of IT solutions in Japan. Mr. Komori has a long history of IT solution sales in Japan and previously served as Vice Chairman of Salesforce Japan, where he played a key role in our alliance. With the addition of Mr. Komori, UPWARD will accelerate its collaboration with Salesforce Japan and further strengthen its enterprise sales strategy.
UPWARD is a product that pursues UI/UX in inputting information into CRM at field sales sites. I have built a very good relationship with Salesforce Japan, where I used to work. The two companies complement each other, and UPWARD adds value to Salesforce. I am very much looking forward to further promoting this kind of collaboration to further invigorate the sales tech market and increase the added value of field sales, which will be responsible for the last mile of a company in the coming AI society.
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We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Shigeki Komori as an Executive Advisor to UPWARD. Mr. Furumori has been a strategic partner to UPWARD during his previous position at Salesforce Japan, and we are very grateful for his support in growing UPWARD's business. We expect that Mr. Komori's addition to our team will further strengthen our enterprise sales team's formation support and customer engagement, and we will work as one to realize the discontinuous business growth that will result from this.
UPWARD is an AI-based sales support service specialized for outbound and inbound sales. UPWARD uses its patented "advanced geo-fencing technology" to automatically record customer contact points, and provides various AI functions specialized for outbound sales. The service is being used as a next-generation sales DX platform by more than 400 companies, mainly major companies that use face-to-face contact with customers as their main sales channel.
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https://upward.jp/function/
To commemorate the appointment of Mr. Komori as our Executive Advisor, a conversation was held between CEO Kaneki and Mr. Komori. A video of the conversation and an article about it are now available. The theme was "The Essence of Sales in the Coming AI Society and the Challenge of the Enterprise. From their respective perspectives, they delve deeply into the essence of sales in the future and also discuss UPWARD's sales strategy.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MndTWPAmbKA
note
https://note.upward.jp/n/ncef97d7bae1f
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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