I MAKE IDEAS REAL.
12 years of building ambitious ideas and shaping high-performing teams.
WORK
YIELD GUILD GAMES
Building a team and delivering a 0-to-1 product for Web3 crypto gaming.
ARGON AI
Bringing AI-driven insight to pharma workflows.
CURAI
Empathic research studies that shaped how patients trust AI in healthcare.
RECOMMENDATIONS
“Makiko is one of the best leaders I’ve had the opportunity to work with. She’s a true player-coach: hands-on when needed, while giving her team the trust and space to lead and own their work. She brought focus and structure to ambiguous problems, advocated for great design, and never lost sight of speed or execution. She is supportive, direct, highly collaborative, and genuinely invested in helping the people around her do their best work."
— Aikeda Sayram, Lead Product Manager (direct report)“Makiko led our exploration into how to apply AI to product and design work, cutting through the hype to see what's practical. She also led meaningful research to gather community feedback on our product.
Makiko brings a great combination of thoughtfulness and execution, and advocates for her team with genuine care. Any team would be fortunate to have her."
— Trish Rosal, Operations Leadership (peer)“Makiko is a leader that puts her team’s interests and needs before her own, and knows how to delicately balance shielding the team from noise while providing them with enough information to allow autonomous decision making.
Any organization would be lucky to have someone with Makiko’s leadership and domain expertise.”
— Ve Sharma, Engineering Leadership (peer)COMPANIES I’VE WORKED WITH
(a short list.)
Uber
Intuit
Sephora
Madison Reed
Marc Jacobs
Gap
True Botanicals
Healthsherpa
Parsley Health
Brilliant Earth