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Reo Kobayashi

CEO of Nebula77

Reo Kobayashi is a brand/media/technology strategist and creative producer who blends style with strategy for clients around the world. He delivers transformational integrated media and marketing solutions globally. Much of his expertise in mobile technology, disruptive thinking, and business growth are derived from his own background in entrepreneurship. Reo is dedicated to expanding collaborations between US and Asia Pacific for businesses in Advertising & Media, and Lifestyle Brands. With unique insights into trends in market, fashion, consumer lifestyle, and purchasing behavior, he is committed to excel in all aspects of client deliverables through the expertise, knowledge, integrity and collaborative approach in everything he does. As leader of numerous modern companies, Reo is currently the Managing Director of LandGrab, a brand empowerment agency focusing on wellness innovation. The agency specializes in building brands from concept to manufacturing and navigation them through the retail landscape across multiple channels of distribution. LandGrab is a team of brand architects guiding companies to accelerate sales. Their holistic brand engineering platform brings together teams of experts to provide a full-service agency experience. By orchestrating the many interrelated elements of business strategy necessary to ensure the successful and exponential growth of a brand, they design, develop, forecast, plan, recruit, create and promote everything needed to make a client’s program truly comprehensive and effective. LandGrab oversees the product development, brand management and global distribution of beauty products, skin care products, fashion apparel, supplemental vitamins and other apothecary products. Reo handles global distribution of wellness products by Level Naturals (a brand whose products have been recognized by Allure Magazine – winning the 2015 Allure Best of Beauty Award), Das Boom Industries (winning GQ Magazine’s Grooming Award Winner in 2015), Electric & Rose to name a few. Reo Kobayashi also founded global media and technology consultancy AlohaGate Media. As a leading consultant, Reo helps clients thrive in a connected world with products, services and platforms that transform the consumer experience. AGM bridges relationships between technology driven companies looking to expand their footprint to Japan, China, and the United States. Reo’s third company, Digital2Go, further capitalizes on this future of location-based marketing by building a global consumer engagement platform using proximity. Reo naturally transitioned into the evolution of mobile devices and their abilities to track and interpret consumer behavior patterns, which is key for advertising and brands. The service creates deeply engaging consumer experiences that redefine location-based media & content services through context across digital & physical worlds. Reo Kobayashi succeeds in creating communications that are cross-cultural and geographically boundless by striving to uncover the fundamental and universal concepts in any presentation or design. He is dedicated to delivering transformational integrated media and marketing solutions, globally expanding collaborations for businesses in Media & Entertainment and Lifestyle Brands. Born in Tokyo and raised in Los Angeles, Reo brings an Eastern heritage and philosophical base to bear on a Western outlook. Through the blending of these sometimes disparate social views, Reo seeks to distill the most complex ideas into simple aesthetics and concepts, uncovering universally applicable tenets. He is noted for his strategic, motivational management style resulting in high levels of team productivity. His exceptional communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, marketing and sales mentality has led him into many successful ventures for the global lifestyle market of consumers and brands. Reo Kobayashi’s entrepreneurial work and consulting services have taken him to Asia PAC in an effort to increase his clients’ global reach and international competitiveness. This multinational approach has afforded him an immersion into cultural understanding and change management that has led to real dollar results for companies he has represented and development as a significant player in respective industries. Acting as a creative catalyst in today’s multichannel world, Reo handles the Japanese distribution of all wellness brands under LandGrab, including Level Naturals (a brand whose products have been recognized by Allure Magazine – winning the 2015 Allure Best of Beauty Award), Das Boom Industries (winning GQ Magazine’s Grooming Award Winner in 2015), Electric & Rose to name a few. He is responsible for improving and maintaining visibility and transparency in LandGrab’s global pipeline and business development process. This involves ensuring regular updates on in-process and emerging leads and clarity around accountability for moving the process forward. He is also the founder and CEO of global media and technology consultancy AlohaGate Media. As a leading consultant, Reo helps clients thrive in a connected world with products, services and platforms that transform the consumer experience. He bridges relationships between technology driven companies looking to expand their footprint to Japan, China, and the United States. During his previous role of a creative communications agency, Reo collaborated with high profile Japanese agencies including Hakuhodo, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Sensing a niche gap between Eastern and Western market that he could fill as a creative and strategic consultant, Reo founded AlohaGate Media, a key connector between the United States, Japan and China. Through AlohaGate Media, Reo capitalizes upon the world of digital and potential implications on clients and creates multi-platform integrated business solutions to support a more global and connected world of business. When advertising agencies can connect with natives just as easily as tourists, it opens up a world of opportunity accessible by both Eastern and Western markets. Much of Reo Kobayashi’s global consulting work centers around location-based marketing and widespread proximity marketing for advertising agencies. He is currently collaborating with the largest Wi-Fi infrastructure company in the U.S. to transform Honolulu, Hawaii into a “smart city.” Reo, who is Japanese-American himself, will be a key figure in driving mobile advertising and outreach to directly reach tourists visiting Hawaii. His expertise and recognition of the ebb and flow of potential markets makes him a key figure in international marketing and advertising. Reo is responsible for identifying, executing and supporting strategic partnerships & development relationships, and in a global context, this is largely based on the power of mobile technology. His knowledge of emerging technologies and development process makes him uniquely qualified to integrate these technologies worldwide. Reo Kobayashi is to be considered a strategic extension of his client’s marketing team, providing value through transformational integrated marketing strategies that delivers profitable client relationships through audience engagement. He sees every problem through a creative lens and brings a level of imagination and ingenuity that solves any problem with speed, efficiency and elegance. He transforms concepts and ideas into a truly global experience.

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