Echo Social Impact

Leadership Profiles

Meet the people behind Echo Social Impact — engineers, coordinators, and field partners working on humanitarian programs that start with demining and grow from there.

A close-up photographic shot of a bright yellow demining warning sign, its metal surface slightly weathered, mounted on a sturdy wooden post emerging from dry, reddish-brown soil dotted with sparse green grass. Behind it, a sequence of small, carefully placed red and white ground markers recedes into the distance, gradually blurring into a soft bokeh of earth tones and muted greenery. Golden hour sunlight bathes the scene, catching the edges of the sign and casting a long, calm shadow across the ground. The mood is serious yet cautiously optimistic, emphasizing protection and safety. Captured at eye level with shallow depth of field and a clean, documentary realism, the composition uses the sign as a strong central anchor while the environment subtly suggests ongoing humanitarian demining work.
A meticulously arranged flat-lay photographic composition of demining technology tools on a matte dark-gray surface: a compact ground-penetrating radar unit with textured rubber edges, a robust metal detector coil, a rugged laptop displaying a stylized data visualization, coiled fiber-optic cable, color-coded flag markers, and a small notebook with a clean, minimalist cover bearing a subtle Echo Social Impact logo. Overhead soft studio lighting creates even illumination with delicate highlights on metallic components and gentle, controlled shadows for depth. The mood is innovative and precise, emphasizing responsible use of advanced technology for humanitarian purposes. The framing is symmetrical with slight asymmetrical accents, shot from directly above with sharp focus across the frame. The overall photographic realism and modern, professional aesthetic reinforce the blend of engineering rigor and social impact.

Technology for Mine-Free Futures

Echo Social Impact combines field expertise, advanced sensing, and community partnerships to clear landmines and explosive remnants safely. From our Yokohama headquarters, we support locally led teams worldwide, restoring land, livelihoods, and dignity for future generations.

About Echo

Our Team

An elevated, wide photographic view of a reclaimed former minefield transformed into a safe community field, the foreground showing a small, clearly marked boundary rope with neutral-colored posts and a faded old warning sign now lying flat on the ground. Beyond it stretches a vibrant patchwork of green crops and wildflowers, with distant low hills under a soft blue sky with thin clouds. Gentle late-afternoon sunlight illuminates the landscape, creating warm highlights on the plants and soft shadows that emphasize depth. The atmosphere is hopeful and serene, highlighting the long-term impact of demining. The composition follows rule of thirds, with the old sign in the lower corner and the flourishing land filling the frame, photographed with sharp focus and natural, clean color grading to convey renewal and community resilience without any visible people.

Kenji Tanaka

Representative Director

Sets the strategic direction of Echo Social Impact and shapes its broader humanitarian agenda, aligning partners, funders, and field teams around a measurable civilian-safety mission that begins with demining.

A detailed top-down photographic view of a demining operations planning table, covered with a large, slightly worn topographic map marked with precise colored symbols indicating minefields and safe corridors. Around the map lie rugged GPS devices, a ruggedized tablet showing a clean dashboard interface, orange safety markers, and neatly coiled measuring tape. Soft, diffused daylight from an unseen window falls across the table, creating gentle shadows and subtle reflections on plastic screens. The mood is professional, methodical, and focused, emphasizing technology-enabled humanitarian impact. The composition uses rule of thirds, keeping the tablet as a subtle focal point while maintaining sharp focus throughout. The photographic realism and clean, modern aesthetic communicate clarity, organization, and hope in a challenging environment, without showing any human figures.

Yuto Ikeda

Japan Coordinator

Coordinates operations, partners, and funders in Japan — the bridge between Echo’s humanitarian work in the field and the institutions, agencies, and supporters who make it sustainable from home.

A close-up photographic shot of a bright yellow demining warning sign, its metal surface slightly weathered, mounted on a sturdy wooden post emerging from dry, reddish-brown soil dotted with sparse green grass. Behind it, a sequence of small, carefully placed red and white ground markers recedes into the distance, gradually blurring into a soft bokeh of earth tones and muted greenery. Golden hour sunlight bathes the scene, catching the edges of the sign and casting a long, calm shadow across the ground. The mood is serious yet cautiously optimistic, emphasizing protection and safety. Captured at eye level with shallow depth of field and a clean, documentary realism, the composition uses the sign as a strong central anchor while the environment subtly suggests ongoing humanitarian demining work.

Colin Cunningham

Southeast Asia Coordinator

Based in Vietnam, coordinates field operations across Southeast Asia — the partners, deminers, and on-the-ground logistics that turn pilot programs into reliable, repeatable humanitarian work.

Our Journey in Humanitarian Demining

Echo began as a small project. Demining surfaced as the first focus: an urgent problem, a serious technology gap, and a global community of field operators willing to collaborate. With partners including GICHD and operators in Ukraine and Southeast Asia, that side project grew into a mission of its own. Echo Social Impact now operates as an independent humanitarian organization, headquartered in Yokohama.

An elevated, wide photographic view of a reclaimed former minefield transformed into a safe community field, the foreground showing a small, clearly marked boundary rope with neutral-colored posts and a faded old warning sign now lying flat on the ground. Beyond it stretches a vibrant patchwork of green crops and wildflowers, with distant low hills under a soft blue sky with thin clouds. Gentle late-afternoon sunlight illuminates the landscape, creating warm highlights on the plants and soft shadows that emphasize depth. The atmosphere is hopeful and serene, highlighting the long-term impact of demining. The composition follows rule of thirds, with the old sign in the lower corner and the flourishing land filling the frame, photographed with sharp focus and natural, clean color grading to convey renewal and community resilience without any visible people.
A detailed top-down photographic view of a demining operations planning table, covered with a large, slightly worn topographic map marked with precise colored symbols indicating minefields and safe corridors. Around the map lie rugged GPS devices, a ruggedized tablet showing a clean dashboard interface, orange safety markers, and neatly coiled measuring tape. Soft, diffused daylight from an unseen window falls across the table, creating gentle shadows and subtle reflections on plastic screens. The mood is professional, methodical, and focused, emphasizing technology-enabled humanitarian impact. The composition uses rule of thirds, keeping the tablet as a subtle focal point while maintaining sharp focus throughout. The photographic realism and clean, modern aesthetic communicate clarity, organization, and hope in a challenging environment, without showing any human figures.
A close-up photographic shot of a bright yellow demining warning sign, its metal surface slightly weathered, mounted on a sturdy wooden post emerging from dry, reddish-brown soil dotted with sparse green grass. Behind it, a sequence of small, carefully placed red and white ground markers recedes into the distance, gradually blurring into a soft bokeh of earth tones and muted greenery. Golden hour sunlight bathes the scene, catching the edges of the sign and casting a long, calm shadow across the ground. The mood is serious yet cautiously optimistic, emphasizing protection and safety. Captured at eye level with shallow depth of field and a clean, documentary realism, the composition uses the sign as a strong central anchor while the environment subtly suggests ongoing humanitarian demining work.