About

Yasunori Kirimoto has worked in the geospatial field since 2004. After roles at a specialist GIS company and a construction consultancy, he co-founded MIERUNE in 2016. He served as CTO and then COO before taking his current role as Representative Director and CEO, leading the company overall.

A licensed surveyor and Senior GIS Engineer, he draws on more than 20 years of experience with geospatial data and applications to drive MIERUNE's growth on both the technical and business sides.

An early advocate for using AWS in the geospatial field, he was named an AWS Hero in 2022 — the first person in Japan to receive the honor in the DevTools category. He also helped launch the MapLibre User Group Japan, and continues to support the growth of the geospatial industry and the open-source community.

After working as a researcher at Hokkaido University and at a construction consultancy, Yasuto Furukawa co-founded MIERUNE in 2016. As Director and Evangelist, he leads business strategy, external alliances, and technical branding in the geospatial field.

He serves as a Code for Japan Fellow and a Special Supporter of the Geospatial Information Lab at Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), building partnerships with local governments, companies, and communities nationwide and working across research, government, and industry to balance public value with sustainability.

He has also served as an open-source committee member at the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) and on the Digital Agency's recommended-datasets committee, contributing to the standardization, policy design, and real-world adoption of open data and open source, with geospatial information at the core. He is a visiting lecturer at Rakuno Gakuen University.

After working at a mapping company and a US GIS vendor, Toru Mori founded Orkney Inc. in 2002 to build an open-source GIS business. From 2017 he worked in Apple's Maps division in the United States, and later led product development for the Japanese market at HERE Technologies.

He joined MIERUNE's management in 2019 and, since 2025, has served as a full-time Executive Director responsible for business planning and product development.

He has contributed significantly to the spread of open-source GIS software in Japan — founding the OSGeo Japan chapter and leading the Japanese localization project for QGIS — and was certified as an Honorary Senior GIS Engineer in 2023. He serves as an auditor of OSGeo Japan and is a part-time lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University.

Akihiko Yamamoto joined The Hokkaido Bank in 1980. He later served as CFO of Softfront Inc. and, in 2005, established Yamamoto Consulting Office.

As a consulting-firm principal, he has held roles as external auditor and outside director at a range of companies, including Satudora Holdings Co., Ltd. He was appointed as an outside auditor of MIERUNE in 2025.