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.
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.
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.
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