Reo Kobayashi

Reo Kobayashi is a leader in both style and strategy for cross-cultural business growth. A creative and enterprising individual, Reo collates universal marketing concepts and brings them to life via advertising, media, and lifestyle brands across the U.S. and Asia Pacific. He has the unique ability to distill fundamental ideas that engage customers and grow business-- and implement these ideas through transformational and disruptive outlets.

Currently, Reo serves as the Managing Director of Nebula77, a brand empowerment agency focusing on wellness innovation. The agency specializes in building brands from concept to manufacturing and navigation them through the retail landscape across multiple channels of distribution. N77 is a team of brand architects guiding companies to accelerate sales. Their holistic brand engineering platform brings together teams of experts to provide a full-service agency experience. By orchestrating the many interrelated elements of business strategy necessary to ensure the successful and exponential growth of a brand, they design, develop, forecast, plan, recruit, create and promote everything needed to make a client’s program truly comprehensive and effective.

Outside of his responsibilities at Nebula77, Reo Kobayashi is also the founder of AlohaGate Media and Digital2Go. In these leadership roles Reo excels in all aspects of client deliverables while also paving the way in mobile technology and location-based marketing.

Reo has been previously recognized by the Los Angeles Times for his creative and forward-thinking approach to business. Much of his specialities lie in creative strategies and marketing, branding and identity, transformations in design thinking, developing innovative new ideas and concepts with high-impact immersive content for companies and brands. But as much as experience plays a role within his deep rooted passion for branding and entrepreneurship. While many people would defer away from such challenges, Reo accepts these task as windows of opportunity. to create communication that are cross-cultural and geographically boundless is something that continues to peek his interest today. He strives to uncover not just the fundamentals of the branding and marketing field, but also the universal concepts that has shaped many of his business ventures today.