Daisuke Sasaki
Profile
Performance in office
Tenure
Tenure
Background
He joined Hakuhodo in April 2004 and moved through four companies in eight years: CLSA Capital Partners Japan in July 2006, ALBERT in May 2007 and Google in May 2008. In July 2012 he founded freee and became its Representative Director and CEO. In the fiscal year ended June 2025 he was the largest shareholder with an 18.56% stake, followed by foreign institutional investors, with Recruit Co., Ltd. holding 3.85%.
Selection
There was no predecessor. He became Representative Director and CEO at the company's founding in July 2012 and has served for 14 years. He was at Google for four years and two months, from May 2008 to July 2012, and started the company in the same month he left. In the fiscal year ended June 2016, the earliest period traceable in the annual securities reports, non-consolidated revenue was ¥0.6 billion against an ordinary loss of ¥2.1 billion. From that year through FY ended June 2024, ordinary income was negative for nine straight years.
Initiatives
Consolidated revenue grew from ¥4.5 billion in the fiscal year ended June 2019 to ¥33.3 billion in FY ended June 2025. Operating losses continued throughout, with an operating loss of ¥8.4 billion in FY ended June 2024. In FY ended June 2022 the company recorded an impairment loss on fixed assets, bringing the net loss to ¥11.6 billion. In FY ended June 2025 it posted operating income of ¥0.6 billion and net income of ¥1.4 billion, turning profitable for the full year.
Career
Career
Hakuhodo
| Date | Position |
|---|---|
| Apr 2004 | Joined |
CLSA Capital Partners Japan
| Date | Position |
|---|---|
| Jul 2006 | Joined |
ALBERT
| Date | Position |
|---|---|
| May 2007 | Joined |
Guguru
| Date | Position |
|---|---|
| May 2008 | Joined |
freee K.K.
| Date | Position |
|---|---|
| Jul 2012 | Representative Director, CEO (at founding) |
| 2012 | Representative Director, CEO |
| 2012 | Representative Director, CEO |
National University
| Date | Position |
|---|---|
| Apr 2020 | 法人 一橋大学 経営協議会委員 (translation pending) |
References 1
References (Japanese primary sources)
- フリー株式会社 有価証券報告書【役員の状況】