Ryo "Rio" Yamanami
Bloomington IN
Ryo Yamanami was born in January 1978 in Kumamoto, Japan. Ryo grew up playing baseball and always had fun with science, chemistry, marketing, and business. By the age of 18, he finished his high school at Seiseiko High School and started his study at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka. He sought new challenges and Kansai Gaidai sent him to Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, MN as an exchange student to finish his degrees in international business and English. Upon graduating from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2001, Ryo moved to work with Yasui Seiki and its related companies in the area of marketing, business strategies, and industrial coating. He has helped more than 380 companies and thousands of R&D; engineers in coating industry. While helping R&D; engineers with highly technical industrial coating expertise, Ryo kept learning in depth about the coating machines and the technologies around the coating. His expertise expanded from almost zero to the level highly recognized from the industry. Ryo helped the company to grow the business tenfolds by implementing some online marketing strategies. In 2012, Ryo decided to start his own marketing company, Infinity Revolutions. Ryo is consistently learning and associating himself with the top marketers in the world like Mike Koenigs, Diego Rodriguez, Jimmy Nicholas, Jimmy Harding, Mike LeMoine, and Noboru Hamada. Those mentors have influenced Ryo's approach to business. Ryo is a certified Power Marketing Network consultant and a certified AEMM (Author, Expert, Marketing Machine) professional.