Mr. Shintaro Tabata has been the Head of Corporate Business at LINE Corporation since April 2014 and also its Chief of Advertising Product Planning Office , Senior Executive Officer and Chief of Corporate Business Group. Prior to joining LINE Corp in June 2012, Mr. Tabata served as Japan Country Manager at Cond Nast Digital and prior to that, he served as head of media business at DataHotel Co., Ltd., which he joined in April 2005. He also served in several roles at Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. and NTT Data Inc. He serves as Director of transcosmos online communications inc. Mr. Tabata received a B.S. in Economics from Keio University.