Akiko Naka is founder and chief executive officer of Wantedly, a social-networking service for professionals. Following its official launch in February 2012, Wantedly grew to 3mil users and 40,000 corporates, and has become the leading professional social-networking service in Japan. Prior to founding Wantedly, Ms Naka was a growth co-ordinator at Facebook Japan, where she contributed to marketing and product development for Facebook in Japan. Before joining Facebook, she worked at Goldman Sachs in equity sales. Ms Naka graduated from Kyoto University in 2008 with a BA in economics. 京都大学経済学部卒業後、ゴールドマン・サックス証券に入社。退職後、Facebook Japanに初期メンバーとして参画。その後、現ウォンテッドリーを設立しビジネスSNS『Wantedly』を開発。2012年2月にサービスを公式リリース。ウォンテッドリー設立後、人と人が繋がることにより、個人の可能性を最大限広げるサービス作りに取り組む。