Ejovi Nuwere

Nuwere has founded a number of companies in the media and security space.

Nuwere founded the VOIP security company SecurityLab and was selected by Business Week as one of the top young entrepreneurs under 25.^[5]

Kaori-san^[6] is Japan's first virtual assistant service. The company launched in July 2013 as a spinout from Land Rush Group.

Re:mark is a joint venture with Japan's 4th largest newspaper publisher Sankei. Re:mark is a commenting system similar to Disqus and serves as 40M unique users across Japan per month. Acquired in 2013.

Nuwere was the North American founder of the wireless company Fon, at one time the largest WiFi network in the world.^[7] He launched the company in the USA and organized an A-list of digerati to join the company as advisors.^[8]

In 2005, Nuwere gathered in Spain with a group of internet luminaries and security specialists that included Joi Ito, Jeff Moss, Chris Goggans and Dan Gillmore at the Madrid Summit to address the issue of terrorism and the internet. The result of the invite-only conference attended by Kofi Annan and several prime ministers was a document shared among the world's politicians that addressed how to best fight terrorism while protecting the freedoms associated with the web.^[9]

Nuwere led Columbia Music Entertainment's R&D division, working with CEO Sadahiko Hirose CTO Jordan Ritter, a childhood friend from his early computer security days. The team began building a Japanese-based, competition-oriented promotional platform for new artists called Otorevo. Despite the measurable successes of Otorevo,^[10][11][12] the company's board of directors voted to terminate all R&D projects in March 2008.

Nuwere has been a technology columnist for Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan's largest newspaper publishers since 2011.^[13]

Nuwere was hired as a security researcher by the Governor of Nagano to audit Japan's National ID system Basic Resident Registers Network. The audit uncovered a number of serious security flaws with national repercussions. When he attempted to publicly discuss the security audit with permission from the Governor of Nagano, the national government prevented the presentation. Nuwere sued the national government for violation of free speech, and was the first foreigner to ever do so in Japan.^[14]