San Francisco, CA | Boston, MA | Tokyo, Tokyo
Also known as: mitnerd
James Chen is Vice Executive Director of Development and Senior Executive Officer at Rakuten and is known in the industry world for his pioneering work in developing Rakuten's global e-commerce platform. James is also working to establish the San Francisco Development Center, an organization pursuing technology innovation and global development coordination. James joined Rakuten through its acquisition of consumer loyalty company FreeCause (now Rakuten Loyalty), where he helped establish the vision and develop the FreeCause loyalty platform. Prior to that, he founded and was CEO of CampusCraze, a college portal and internet ad platform startup acquired by Jenzabar in March . At Jenzabar, James was named group CTO, overseeing the tech strategy and systems of Jenzabar's product lines in the Higher Education market space. James is a native of Taipei, Taiwan and was raised in Chicago, USA. He graduated with a BS degree in Computer Science and Electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. James is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.
