Ichiro T. Jinnai is the Founder & CEO of imagoDei, a consulting firm with particular strength in the advertising business, especially in the media business known as Out-Of-Home(OOH). Widely regarded as the founder of programmatic digitalOOH (DOOH) in Japan, Ichiro is the former CEO of LIVE BOARD, Japan’s first fully programmatic DOOH operator, established as a joint venture between NTTDOCOMO and Dentsu. 

Ichiro is currently responsible for driving the regional strategy as President of Japan, Perion, a global ad tech leader helping agencies, brands and media owners get better results with their marketing investments by providing advanced technology across major ditigal channels. He also serve as Partner at OOH Capital, a global full-service OOH consultancy.

Ichiro has been dedicated to transforming the traditional advertising business into fully automated and data-driven models in various areas, including mobile, online and OOH as a successive corporate entrepreneur at Dentsu on a global basis.

Ichiro graduated from the International Christian University in Tokyo with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and a Master of Arts degree in History of Science. Ichiro started his career at Dentsu in 1992 as a copywriter.