Kohta Shibayama is the director of operations Japan at Venga Global. He started his career in the localization industry as a localization project manager at a single language vendor in Japan. Kohta then moved to a multilanguage vendor where he became a project manager and then led the project management team. He later went on to head the localization project management group in Japan and China. Over the past 14 years Kohta has been focusing on operations management in Japan.