Debbie Howard

Debbie is Chairman of CarterJMRN, part of The Carter Group, a Tokyo-based marketing information consultancy that advises multi-national companies on their marketing strategies in Japan. After founding Japan Market Resource Network (JMRN) in Tokyo in 1989 - and navigating for 23 years as a female entrepreneur in this notoriously male-dominated society - she found like-minded people with whom to amplify her know-how in helping multi-national companies succeed in Japan and other markets. CarterJMRN was formed, and the rest is history. CarterJMRN KK, headed up by Australian Dominic Carter, is the largest independently owned foreign-managed custom market research firm in Japan, and it continues to serve clients with progressive qualitative and quantitative research approaches adapted for the Japanese market and mind.

 Debbie has lived and worked in Japan for 35+ years, and these days divides her time between Tokyo, Japan and Wimberley, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that has been called the “gateway to the Hill Country.”