Tomoko Namba
Tomoko Namba, born April 21, 1962, is a Japanese entrepreneur, and the former CEO of DeNA Co., Ltd.. In 1999 she founded DeNA, one of Japan's largest mobile social network and mobile game companies. She stepped down in 2011 to focus on her family and personal life.
Namba received an MBA from Harvard Business School and was the third Japanese woman to become a partner at McKinsey & Co. She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at Mckinsey.
