summary: Arisa Amano is a Co-Founder & CEO at Internal.io.
content: Arisa Amano is the Co-Founder & CEO at Internal, a newly funded startup that helps companies better manage their internal consoles, she is an entrepreneur and product marketing executive. She was also the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Harbor (blockchain), a blockchain technology company that aims to create decentralized compliance protocol that standardizes the way securities are issued and traded on blockchains. Arisa was Vice President of Products at Zenefits and was responsible for the Zenefits product suite. Arisa previously held product/marketing roles with Yammer, Microsoft, VMware, and MTV Networks. Education Amano graduated from the University of California, with a Bachelor of Science in Management Sciences. Career Arisa Amano began her career at VMware, a software company that provides cloud computing and platform virtualization software and services. As their marketing manager, she analyzed customer usage of products and created marketing campaigns; one of the campaigns was a YouTube video contest called “Run It with VMware.” In 2010, she worked at MTV Networks as a Product Marketing Lead for Social Games. She worked across Nickelodeon, MTV, and Comedy Central groups. !https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/NewlinkFiles/17456929/be0a5___/arisa-amano-black-and-white.jpe In March 2011, Amano became the Director of Product Marketing & Design for Yammer. In December 2013, her role changed to Head of Lifecycle Marketing. She was part of the company until they were acquired by Microsoft. In December 2014, Amano began playing the role of Vice President of Products for Zenefits. owned the complete relaunch of the Zenefits' product suite, launching Z2 and HROne. In 2017, Arisa Amano co-founded Harbor (blockchain) with Bob Remeika. Their team is in the process of creating a decentralized compliance protocol that standardizes the way securities are issued and traded on blockchains. She is currently the co-founder and CEO of Internal, an internal tools platform that allows anyone to create without code, reducing dependence on engineering and enabling businesses to do more with less. Personal Life and Skills Amano currently resides in San Francisco. While working with VMWare, she was the lead vocalist for an all-employee group called Elastic Sky. Arisa is a Product and product marketing executive with 13+ years of experience.