Mikey Hood
CEO
Digital Marketing specialist
Nightlife consultant
Mikey Hood founded Turned On inc after nearly a decade in Japan producing over 100 events for dozens of international and local clients. His business acumen, creative designs, and effective social media marketing campaigns made his agency the go-to for lifestyle brands. High-profile clients include Ray-Ban, Roxy, Vogue Magazine, BEATS, Tinder, and more.
Mikey’s creative expertise and Japanese corporate experience make him uniquely skilled at connecting International and Japanese brands to their target audience.
Key Skills Include
Social Media Marketing, Large Scale Event Production, Online Marketing, Content Creation, Web Design, Graphic Design, and Business Planning
Donny Kimball
TRAVEL INFLUENCER
DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST
PUBLIC RELATIONS GURU
American born PR, digital marketing and social media specialist who spent a considerable amount of time in Shiga Prefecture’s city of Hikone. Possesses an intimate understanding of Japan and its history and is able to grasp the delicate nuances between East and West both in and out of the workplace. Has helped numerous multinational corporations such as Spotify and Tinder launch into the Japanese market and has heavily contributed to crafting their messaging for local audiences.
Donny is both a digital marketer as well as an influencer. He uses his skill set to take unknown destinations in Japan and bring them to life via his content. In turn, these insights and learnings power how he performs on the job.
Key Skills Include
Social Media Marketing, Growth Hacking, Online Marketing, and Digital Advertising, AD spend ROI expert.
YOZABURO MINAKUCHI
Localization expert
DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST
Digital campaign expert
Yozaburo is a bilingual digitally-savvy veteran marketer who has over 10 years of experience implementing a variety of digital campaigns across airline, hotel, tourism, food and apparel brands. He is an advertising/PR agency veteran who has worked for one of the world’s largest tourism PR/marketing agencies where he oversaw the overall in-market digital marketing activations as Digital Manager.
He was responsible for planning and launching major digital campaigns for tourism destinations such as Brand USA, Visit California, San Francisco Travel Association, Choose Chicago, Travel Nevada, Destination Ontario, Tourism Turkey, Go! Central Japan and hotels such as Marriott International and Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
Key Skills Include
Social Media Marketing, PR campaigns, Online Marketing, and Digital Advertising, and Localization.
