Company

Overview

Company Overview

Company Name

Plus W Inc.

Representative

Founder & CEO | Wakako Sakurai

Established

May 2020

Locations

・ Head Office 6-23-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan Dai 25 SY Building 8F ・ Plus W America Inc. 1133 Broadway Suite 1605, New York, NY 10010 ・ PAK-JAPAN Centre National Science and Technology Park (NSTP) 3rd floor, Khyber Rd, H-12, Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory 46000 Pakistan

Employees

60 people (including contractors and interns) *As of May 2025

Business

• Global Advanced IT Talent Introduction & Dispatch • Offshore Development • Overseas Expansion Support • Domestic Talent Introduction & Dispatch • HR & Organizational Consulting

Licenses

• Worker Dispatch Business: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare License No. Dispatch 13-314988 • Fee-charging Employment Placement Business: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare License No. 13-Yu-312426 • Registered Support Organization No.: Registration No. 20-Register-005092

Information Disclosure Based on Worker Dispatch Act

Public Contract Labor Rate Policy

General Employer Action Plan Based on the Act for Measures to Support the Development of the Next Generation and the Act on Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life (Posted July 8, 2026)

Participation

• Shibuya Future Design (Regular Member) • Human Capital Management Consortium

History

Company History

May 1, 2020

Established Plus W Inc.

August 27, 2021

Signed partnership agreement with Shibuya Future Design for promoting side job and multiple job matching

October 1, 2021

Relocated office to Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

August 25, 2022

Joined "Human Capital Management Consortium" with METI and FSA as observers

May 1, 2023

Established "Plus W America Inc." in New York, USA

July 7, 2023

Selected as indirect subsidy recipient for METI/JICS "New Business Creation Support Project for Emerging Countries DX (Indo-Pacific Region Business Co-creation Promotion Project)"

September 20, 2024

Signed MOU with NPO CIRCLE for IT and Japanese language education to expand employment opportunities for young and female IT engineers

Core Members

Members Introduction

Board Member

Wakako Sakurai

Founder & CEO

After founding a global human resources company in her 20s, she served as area manager and HR director at ABC Cooking Studio before becoming President & CEO and driving Asian expansion. At NTT Docomo, she served as Executive Officer and Head of Entertainment Platform Division, Consumer Services Company. While also serving as Director of Oisix ra daichi Inc., she founded Plus W in 2020.

Takashi Horiuchi

Executive Vice President & COO

At Boston Consulting Group, he led strategic planning and execution for corporate transformation, new business development, and data utilization in telecommunications and consumer goods sectors for over 10 years. Later, he worked at Accenture on DX strategy planning and HR/organizational development for new business creation. Agreeing with Sakurai's vision, he joined Plus W at its founding and continues to serve today.

Advisor

Kuninori Matsuda

(Ambassador to Ukraine (2021-24), Ambassador to Pakistan (2018-21) , Ambassador and Consul General in Hong Kong (2015-18))

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he held key positions including Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Israel, Consul General at the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit, Vice President of the National Personnel Authority Training Institute, and Ambassador and Consul General at the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong. He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan from 2018 and to Ukraine from 2021, before joining Plus W as advisor.

Kimihide Ando

(Former Mitsubishi Corporation Pakistan Representative)

At Mitsubishi Corporation, he was stationed in the Middle East and Asia for over 20 years. He served as Mitsubishi Corporation Pakistan Representative for 9 years from 2010. In 2018, he received the Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan), the highest civilian honor bestowed by Pakistan to foreign nationals. He currently serves as advisor to Plus W and Honorary Investment Advisor to the Prime Minister's Investment Board of Pakistan.

Makoto Yasui

(Former Seven-Eleven Japan Global HR Development GM)

At Industrial Bank of Japan, after approximately 20 years of experience stationed in China, he joined Seven-Eleven Japan, serving through the local subsidiary in China before serving as Global HR Development GM for 8 years, and then joining Plus W as advisor.