PROURGN 合同会社プロウン · TOKYO
LEADERSHIP

Led by an executive who has run things — at world scale, and at village scale.

Rieko Yano founded Prourgn after 37 years at Mitsubishi Corporation, where she rose from engineer to Statutory Program Manager of the corporation's worldwide SAP re-implementation — one of the largest IT programmes ever undertaken by a Japanese trading house.

AT MITSUBISHI CORPORATION
37 years
FIRST SCHOOL BUILT IN CAMBODIA
2006
PROURGN LLC FOUNDED IN TOKYO
December 2015
DEDICATED TO PROURGN FULL TIME
2024
The two careers

Everything the first career taught her, in service of the second.

Her career spans five years of postings in Shanghai and Jakarta building IT businesses in emerging Asia; the directorship of Mitsubishi Shoji Taiyo, an inclusive IT subsidiary where 72 of 113 colleagues live with disabilities; and the role of Head of Information Systems at Fuji Die Co., Ltd., a TSE Prime manufacturer, where she authored the company's five-year IT strategy and its automotive cybersecurity Level-2 programme.

She built her first school in Cambodia in 2006 — eighteen years before founding Prourgn as her full-time commitment. The company exists so that everything she learned in her first career can serve the entrepreneurs of her second.

Rieko Yano, Founder & CEO of Prourgn LLC
Rieko Yano
FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
1987Waseda University · joined Mitsubishi Corp.
2007–09Shanghai · IT JV, deputy division head
2014–17Worldwide SAP rollout · statutory PM
2017–20Jakarta · IT subsidiary, deputy division head
2021–23Director, Mitsubishi Shoji Taiyo
2023–24Head of IS, Fuji Die Co., Ltd. (TSE Prime)
2024–Founder & CEO, Prourgn LLC
Where that shows up

The three missions she runs today.

Partner with us

Start with a conversation

Tell Rieko Yano where your work meets ours. Prourgn welcomes conversations with foundations, companies, family offices and individuals who want to create social impact in Asia — and want a partner who has been on the ground for two decades and will stay after the announcement fades.

She reads these herself, and we usually reply within two working days.

Your message goes straight to Rieko Yano. Or write directly: rieko.yano@prourgn.com

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