Brave group Overhauls Management As It Enters 10th Fiscal Year
The promotions put the heads of IP Production and IP Platform and Solutions into senior executive roles at the same time the company creates group-wide legal, HR, and IT posts, a structure built around VTuber IP rather than the individual agencies under it.
Key Facts
- Brave group Inc. changed its management structure effective October 1, 2026, the start of its 10th fiscal year since founding in October 2017.
- Brave group appointed Taku Kusakabe as Executive Officer CLO, Takashi Senoo as Executive Officer CHRO, and Akio Nishi as Executive Officer CIO.
- Kyuyeon Kim, Yutaka Takeda, and Yu Yamazaki were promoted to Senior Executive Officer at Brave group.
- Yuki Oishi was appointed a director of ENILIS Inc. and Kazunari Sugano a director of Neo-Porte Inc.
- Brave group is headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo and led by Representative Director Keito Noguchi.
Reporting from 5 sources: KAI-YOU, Brave group, Inside, GameBusiness.jp, and 1 more.
Brave group Inc. changed the management structure of the company and its group companies on October 1, 2026, the same day it entered its 10th fiscal year since its founding in October 2017. The Tokyo-based company, led by Representative Director Keito Noguchi, appointed three new executive officers: Taku Kusakabe as CLO, Takashi Senoo as CHRO, and Akio Nishi as CIO. Kyuyeon Kim, Yutaka Takeda, and Yu Yamazaki moved up to senior executive officer, keeping their roles over IP Production, IP Platform and Solutions, and accounting respectively. Tetsuro Ogushi shifted from CRO to CGO, and Yuji Watanabe from CHRO to CGMO. At group companies, Yuki Oishi became a director of ENILIS and Kazunari Sugano a director of Neo-Porte. Brave group says the changes aim to speed up business expansion in Japan and overseas and deepen collaboration across the group.
The stated purpose of the reshuffle is to leverage each company and each business while deepening collaboration across the whole group. Brave group operates the IP Production business centered on VTuber operations, plus the IP Platform and IP Solution domains that sit alongside it. KAI-YOU identifies VSPO! as one of the VTuber groups Brave group operates and Neo-Porte as one of its agencies.
Two of the three senior executive promotions keep people in the domains they already led: Kyuyeon Kim over IP Production, Yutaka Takeda over IP Platform and Solutions. Yu Yamazaki, the third, holds the CAO post. The new CLO, CHRO, and CIO are described as covering legal, human resources, and IT for the entire group, not a single subsidiary.
Noguchi said the company has repeatedly taken on business integrations and overseas expansion since founding, and that the fiscal year starting October 1, 2026 is the starting point for growth on a different scale. He added that the newly appointed executives will work with the whole group to keep launching challenges.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 5 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.