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EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 246 billion in total assets under management (EUR 134 billion in fee-generating assets under management), divided into two business segments: Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership.
General Atlantic is a leading global growth investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 520 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980, General Atlantic continues to be a dedicated partner to visionary founders and investors seeking to build dynamic businesses and create long-term value. Guided by the conviction that entrepreneurs can be incredible agents of transformational change, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with and scale innovative businesses around the world. The firm leverages its patient capital, operational expertise, and global platform to support a diversified investment platform spanning Growth Equity, Credit, Climate, and Sustainable Infrastructure strategies. General Atlantic manages approximately $100 billion in assets under management, inclusive of all strategies, as of October 1, 2024, with more than 900 professionals in 20 countries across five regions.
ゴールドマン・サックス・アセット・マネジメントは、ゴールドマン・サックスのアセット&ウェルス・マネジメントにおいて、資産運用業務を営んでいます。伝統的な投資とオルタナティブ投資の双方を活用し、世界中のお客様の資産運用におけるパートナーとして、長期的な投資成果をご提供することに注力しています。ゴールドマン・サックスの中核事業として、世界の機関投資家、ファイナンシャル・アドバイザー、個人投資家等に投資および助言サービスを提供しています。世界の主要都市に配した約60の拠点に2,500名超の社員を有し、広範で緊密なグローバル・ネットワークと幅広い専門知識を活かし、2023年12月末時点で2.5兆米ドル超の契約資産残高を有しています。
ハーバーベスト・パートナーズ・エルエルシー(HarbourVest Partners, LLC)は、独立系のグローバル・プライベートマーケットのスペシャリストとして、40年の投資経験を持ち、1,250億米ドル超の資産を運用しています(2023年12月末現在)。弊社のプラットフォームは、投資家様にプライマリーファンド投資、セカンダリー投資、共同投資、インフラストラクチャー・リアルアセット、プライベートクレジットへの投資機会を提供します。
日本産業 推進機構株式会社(以下、NSSK)は、2014年に設立され、大手グローバル企業にて国内外の出資活動・出資先企業の支援を30年以上に亘り行ってきたプロフェッショナル達によって設立された、日本企業の支援を重要な目的として掲げるグループです。
私共は、環境・社会・ガバナンス(ESG)に関する基本方針を実践することが社会的責任に応えるものであり、また、投資ポートフォリオからのリターンの向上をも可能にするものと考えます。NSSKは設立以来ESGの基本方針を掲げており、現在は投資プロセスの一環としてESGリスクや改善点を外部のエキスパートと共に分析しています。
NSSKは現在、旗艦ファンドに加えて、日本の地方市場におけるインパクト投資に特化した計5本の投資ファンドを運用しています。投資先企業の主なESGハイライトは以下の通りです。
雇用社員数が12%増加、CEO/COOの40%が女性またはマイノリティ、全投資先5,000人以上の従業員の78%が女性、管理職の49%が女性です。NSSKは、国連のPRIに加盟しており、日本のGPとしては初めて、インパクト・マネジメントに関する運用原則に加盟しました。ESG年次報告書で紹介されている、NSSKの従業員によるESG活動の成果と取り組みについては、www.nsskjapan.com をご覧ください。
KPMG is a leading provider of Audit, Tax and Advisory services to private equity worldwide.
Our Private Equity group brings together our top transaction advisory, deal origination, technology, value creation, and tax professionals to support our clients with global best practices and local expertise in every situation. We combine industry specialization with a deep understanding of the requirements of private equity as we help our clients grow portfolio value and achieve outstanding returns over the entire investment cycle.
We help our clients execute deals with greater insight, confidence, speed, and decision-making quality. Post investment, we help private equity funds and their portfolio companies identify and grow value in a diverse range of areas such as aligning IT strategy with the business model, turning ESG into a competitive advantage, optimizing operations to unlock cash and grow earnings, digitally empowering the business with new technologies, and many others. Depending on the exit route, we also help prepare companies for IPO or manage the sale process. In addition, we help private equity and their portfolios achieve effective tax compliance and manage tax risks while controlling costs and enhancing returns.
KPMG – Dedicated to Private Equity. Dedicated to your success.
10 Bridge Capital (formerly Hatton Equity Partners), established in 2016, is a Thailand-based investment firm founded by a team of seasoned professionals with extensive local networks and expertise across various industries. The firm focuses on investments in specialty manufacturing, consumer and retail, SaaS and business services, F&B and hospitality, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and education sectors. With a geographical preference for Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, 10 Bridge Capital manages assets up to USD 280 million.
The firm sources over 96% of its deals through proprietary relationships developed from its deep local network and strategic partnerships. This approach enables 10 Bridge Capital to access unique investment opportunities and support the growth of businesses in the region.
Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street’s 90+ investment professionals focus on five strategies: primary fund partnerships, secondary transactions, co-investments, direct growth equity company investments, and private credit deals. Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles by drawing on 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships. The firm is 100% employee-owned and has $51 billion in assets under management. Adams Street maintains a worldwide presence with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.
アドバンテッジパートナーズは1992年に創業し、1997年に日本初となる日本バイアウトファンドの設立に携わって以来、プライベートエクイティ投資事業に従事し、事業の発展に努めております。直近では、2023年に日本バイアウト戦略の7号ファンドへのサービス提供を開始しており、アジアバイアウト戦略、上場企業成長支援プライベート投資戦略を加えた過去の全ファンド累計投資案件数は120件超に上り、様々な業種に総額約4,000億円超の投資を実行して参りました。東京、香港、シンガポール、及び上海に拠点を有しており、2024年にムンバイにオフィスを設立する予定です。
We're a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes.
Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment.
We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies.
Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
Bain Capital, LP is one of the world’s leading private investment firms with approximately $185 billion of assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve applied our insight and experience to organically expand into several asset classes including private equity, credit, public equity, venture capital and real estate. We leverage our shared platform to capture cross-asset class opportunities in strategic areas of focus. With offices on four continents, our global team aligns our interests with those of our investors for lasting impact.
Beyond Next Venturesは、ディープテック分野のシードおよびアーリー段階の投資に特化した日本のベンチャーキャピタルです。ヘルスケア、創薬・バイオテクノロジー、アグリテック・フードテック、デジタル、宇宙、クライメートテックなどの領域で、グローバルな社会課題を解決するスタートアップを投資対象としています。各専門領域における知見・経験が豊富なメンバーを擁し、会社設立段階やシード段階からの投資にフォーカスしてIPOやM&Aによる良好なExit実績を有しています。
当社の最新の旗艦ファンドであるBeyond Next Ventures 3号投資事業有限責任組合は、主に機関投資家等からの出資を受け、2024年7月に250億円の目標を上回る257億円(1億7300万米ドル)で最終クローズを行い、これによって当社のAUMは2025年3月時点で480億円(3億2400万米ドル)超となっております。
私たちは、ディープテックをはじめとした革新的な科学技術が世界を豊かにする可能性を信じています。科学技術の継続的な発展には、資金と人材の集結、商業化の仕組みの改善、次世代への資金循環が重要だと考えており、ディープテック・スタートアップへの出資に加え、研究成果の事業化を目指す研究者の創業支援、事業成功に導く経営人材の発掘・育成、シェア型ウェットラボの開設などを通じて、商業化を支えるエコシステムの構築にも注力しております。
BlackRock's private markets platform serves investors seeking outperformance in infrastructure, private debt, private equity, real estate, and multi-alternatives solutions. We strive to bring our investors the highest quality opportunities by drawing upon our global footprint, superior execution capabilities, proprietary technology, and position as a preferred partner.
Founded in 1999, ChrysCapital is one of the largest and most established India-focused private equity firms. By any measure, ChrysCapital’s track record is one the strongest in the context of Indian private equity – $4 billion raised across 8 funds, 86 investments, and 67 full exits. The firm has fully realized five successive funds on schedule with strong US$ net returns, which is unprecedented not just in India, but potentially also emerging markets in general. Overall, ChrysCapital has invested $3.0 billion and realized $5.3 billion, which equates to a disproportionately high share of total PE realizations from India. The firm has achieved all this while maintaining one of the lowest loss ratios and fee drags in the industry (~15% fee-to-invested capital vs 20-25% for the industry).
CIBC Caribbean is a member of the CIBC Group. CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with 11 million personal banking and business clients. Through its three major business units - Retail and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Capital Markets - CIBC offers a full range of products and services through its comprehensive electronic banking network, branches and offices across Canada with offices in the United States and around the world.
CIBC Caribbean is a relationship bank offering a full range of market leading financial services through our Corporate Banking, Personal and Business Banking and Private Wealth segments (incorporating Fund & Trust Services). We are located in ten countries around the Caribbean, providing banking services through approximately 2,700 employees in 45 branches and offices, with US$13 billion in assets and market capitalization of US$1 billion.
CIBC Caribbean’s knowledge of banking has been gained through a combined experience of almost 250 years in the Caribbean through our heritage organisations, Barclays PLC and CIBC.
We also have a representative office in Hong Kong that provides Fund Administration and Trust Services. The award-winning team in Asia comprises industry veterans with specialist industry knowledge to provide comprehensive support to Alternative Investment Funds via a range of tailored services.
CVC Capital
CVC is a leading private equity and investment advisory firm with a network of 25 offices throughout Europe, Asia and the US, with approximately €137 billion of assets under management. CVC has six complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, for which we have secured commitments in excess of €165 billion from some of the world's leading institutional investors across its private equity and credit strategies. Funds managed or advised by CVC are invested in over 100 companies worldwide, which have combined annual sales of approximately €100 billion and employ more than 550,000 people. For further information about CVC please visit: www.cvc.com.
CVC Asia
CVC has one of the largest and longest-established pan-regional office networks of any private equity business in Asia and has been active in the region since 1999. CVC's Asia private equity strategy is focused on control, co-control and structured minority investments in high quality businesses in core consumer and services sectors across Asia. Typical enterprise values are between $250 million and $1.5 billion. For further information about CVC’s Asia Pacific funds please visit: www.cvc.com/private-equity/asia.
グロービス・キャピタル・パートナーズは日本初の独立系ハンズオン型ベンチャーキャピタルであり、主に日本のスタートアップを対象にアーリーステージからプレIPOステージまで投資を実行しております。累計1800億円以上を運用しており、2022年設立の7号ファンドにおいては日本国内向けベンチャーキャピタルファンドとしては最大級となります(2023年3月末計727億円にてファイナルクローズ完了)。既にファンド期間を満了しているファンドについては世界のベンチマークでトップ25%に入るリターンを創出しており、アクティブなファンドについてもユニコーンもしくはユニコーンポテンシャルを持つ投資先を複数ポートフォリオに抱えております。
ハンズオン型ベンチャーキャピタルとして、キャピタリストによる社外取締役を通じた経営支援や、バリューアップ専門チーム「GCP X」を通じた専門的支援を通じて、投資先の事業成長のために必要となる「ヒト(人材)」「カネ(資金)」「チエ(経営戦略)」を総合的に提供しております。2023年4月には、GCPのUS拠点をサンフランシスコに開設しました。投資先企業のグローバル展開支援を強化する方針であり、新設オフィスは、投資先企業のグローバル展開拠点としても活用できるようになりました。
グロービスグループの多岐に亘るアセットや、2号ファンドでApax Partnersとのジョイントベンチャーを通じて培ったグローバルスタンダードなガバナンス・ファンド運営体制をユニークな事業基盤として抱え、日本を代表するベンチャーキャピタルファンドとして引き続き邁進してまいります。
JAFCO Group is a leading investment management company operating venture capital and buyout funds. Since its foundation in 1973, JAFCO Group has established the first venture capital fund in Japan in 1982 and pioneered Japanese buyout funds in 1998. We have 100+ professionals of venture capital, buyout investment, business development, and fund management in Japan, Asia, and the United States.
In venture investment, we pursue the creation of new businesses together with entrepreneurs. In buyout investment, we guide companies looking for renewed growth through a “second start,” enabling them to achieve enduring growth and expansion.
The total capital commitments of its investment funds to date in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000.
Our purpose is “Fueling perpetual growth; investing in bold visions.” We continue to invest in bold visions of companies and entrepreneurs, based on its conviction that continued investment leads to the realization of a sustainable society.
L Catterton is a market-leading consumer-focused investment firm, managing approximately $33 billion of equity capital across three multi-product platforms: private equity, credit, and real estate. Leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad network of strategic relationships, L Catterton's team of more than 200 investment and operating professionals across 17 offices partners with management teams to drive differentiated value creation across its portfolio. Founded in 1989, the firm has made over 250 investments in some of the world's most iconic consumer brands.
Lexington Partners is a leading global alternative investment manager primarily involved in providing liquidity solutions to owners of private equity and other alternative investments and in making co-investments alongside leading private equity sponsors. Lexington Partners is one of the largest managers of secondary acquisition and co-investment funds with $55 billion in committed capital since inception. Lexington has acquired over 3,900 secondary and co-investment interests through more than 1,000 transactions with a total value in excess of $69 billion, including $17 billion of syndications. Lexington also invests in private investment funds during their initial formation and has committed to more than 550 new funds in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Lexington has offices strategically located in major centers for private equity and alternative investing - New York, Boston, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Santiago, São Paulo and Luxembourg.
Linnovate Partners is a leading asset services provider focused on driving innovation in the alternative investments industry. With expertise across the entire fund lifecycle, Linnovate Partners goes beyond traditional fund administration to provide value-added services and technologies that empower asset and fund managers to excel in their operations. Its six core service areas include:
Powering these services is a proprietary, cloud-based platform, RAISE, that provides all the functions of alternative investing in a single ecosystem and enables seamless integration and accessibility. With offices globally, Linnovate Partners currently administers over $120 billion in assets across more than 600 private equity and venture capital funds. As an innovation-focused disruptor, Linnovate Partners combines deep industry expertise and the latest technologies to drive better outcomes for alternative investment managers and investors worldwide.
モルガン・スタンレー・インベストメント・マネジメントは、世界の政府系機関、機関投資家、個人投資家を含む多様な顧客基盤に対して、長期的に優れた投資パフォーマンス、資産運用サービス、包括的な投資ソリューションの提供に努めています。2024年12月31日現在の運用資産額は、1兆7000億ドル超となります。世界の拠点に在籍するプロフェッショナルが、パブリックおよびプライベート市場をカバーしながら、幅広い投資家のニーズにお応えする戦略を提供しています。
Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with total assets under management of €80bn+ across two core asset classes, private equity and credit. The Permira private equity funds have made 300+ investments in five key sectors: Technology, Consumer, Healthcare, Services and Climate. Permira Credit is one of Europe’s leading specialist credit investors, supporting businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct Lending, CLO Management and Strategic Opportunities. Permira employs over 500 people in 16 offices across Europe, the United States and Asia.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (www.simpsonthacher.com) is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has approximately 1,500 lawyers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.
The Firm regularly advises on market-defining fundraisings in Japan and has incomparable experience advising clients on fundraisings for Japan-focused funds. Complementing the Firm’s global preeminent private funds practice, our Japan team offer advice on funds across asset classes and strategies, including private equity, real estate, credit, infrastructure, energy/renewable energy, secondaries, technology and growth/venture, as well as on SMAs and other alternative investment products and strategies.
Active in Asia for almost three decades, Simpson Thacher advises on transactions and matters throughout the region, including in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. We offer one of the largest on-the-ground teams, with multiple language capabilities, including Japanese, Mandarin and Korean. Our Tokyo and Hong Kong-based funds lawyers practice New York, English and Hong Kong law.
ティーキャピタルパートナーズは、日本のプライベートエクイティ市場の創成期である1998年に1号ファンドを組成して以来、25年以上バイアウト投資事業に従事してまいりました。これまで7件のファンドを組成し、累計約2,200億円の運用において、一貫して安定した投資と運用実績を確保しています。直近では2020年に6号ファンド(約800億円)、2016年に5号ファンド(約500億円)を設立し、企業の成長支援に貢献しております。日本経済の成長を支える秀でた技術力や、他社の追随を許さないビジネスモデルなど、企業としての中核的能力を持つ中堅中小企業にフォーカスしています。当社のモットーである「信頼」の旗印のもと、良好なチームワークを通じて、「良い会社をもっと良い会社へ」するべく、投資先企業の経営課題解決に真摯に取り組んでいます。
ロングリーチグループは、日本及びアジアにおける戦略的プライベート・エクイティ投資を目的に設立された独立系の事業支援投資グループです。今後の日本・アジア地域における産業発展を担う企業の競争力強化と成長を実現するために、各企業のニーズに合った資本と経営リソースを提供しております。これまで3 つのファンドを通じて日本及び海外の機関投資家より約2,100億円の出資を頂いており、産業テクノロジー・ビジネスサービス・消費財関連・金融サービスの4 分野におけるバイアウト投資と、投資先企業の企業価値創出を通じて、高いリターンを実現しています。
ロングリーチグループには、海外を拠点とする複数の投資ファンド、アドバイザリー業務を提供している香港拠点のロングリーチグループ・リミテッド、そして東京拠点の株式会社ロングリーチグループがあります。株式会社ロングリーチグループは、日本およびアジア市場に関するデータや情報を収集・分析し、投資ファンドが案件の発掘調査や投資を行うためのコンサルティング業務を提供しております。
ウエリントンは、世界最大規模を誇るプライベート(非公開)の独立系資産運用会社です。1928年に米国・ボストンで創業。長年にわたり長期の視点に立ち、高い専門性と強固な運用基盤のもと、株式、債券、マルチアセット運用、オルタナティブ投資、サステナブル投資をはじめ、世界の金融市場で投資機会を追求してきました。現在、60カ国3,000を超える投資家のお客様から運用資産総額190兆円以上を受託し、世界中の投資家のニーズにお応えすべく、多様な資産運用ソリューションを提供しています。
オルタナティブ投資では30年以上にわたり、プライベート・エクイティ、マルチ戦略型ヘッジファンド、株式ロング/ショート、絶対収益型債券、リアルアセット(実物資産)など、幅広い投資ソリューションを提供。現在、オルタナティブ投資の運用資産総額は5兆円を上回ります。
ウエリントンのプライベート・エクイティ運用チームは、起業家、医師、科学者など様々な専門知識を持つスペシャリストで構成されています。豊富な実績と知識、強固な運用基盤と世界最大級の資産規模を誇る信用力は、小規模案件から大規模なものまで、様々なセクターのレイト・ステージにある未公開株式への魅力的な投資機会を可能にしています。
(2024年12月末現在。1米ドル= 158.18円換算。)
ウエルインベストメントは日本で初めての大学発の独立系資産運用会社として設立されました。弊社の目指すところは、資本市場を通じてイノベーションの誘発や企業の成長であり、現在は、投資運用業のライセンスを有し、顧客のニーズに合わせてベンチャーキャピタル、PE、株式、債券の運用を行っています。
ベンチャーキャピタル投資では、グローバルなステージで技術系ベンチャー企業にシード・アーリーステージの投資を行なっており、日本だけでなく世界のイノベーションや新規事業へ投資を行っています。具体的には、産業や技術動向に基づく仮説推論型のリサーチ活動を通して得られた知見を基に、独自の仮説を導出し、シード・アーリーステージのベンチャー企業がボーングローバル企業と成長することを目指して長期的視点で投資・支援を行っています
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CloseIsamu is a Partner and a member of the Client Service Team. He works closely with clients in the management of their portfolios, including providing assistance in the development and monitoring of their private equity programs. Additionally, he is actively involved in the portfolio construction and ongoing monitoring of the various fund of funds programs and separate accounts. Isamu is also involved in the development of consultant relationships.
Isamu spent 15 years with UBS Global Asset Management as a Managing Director and Head of Pension Funds Marketing. As a senior member of the Tokyo team, he was responsible for business development and relationship management of large institutional clients/consultants in Japan.
From 1990 to 1998, Isamu worked for LTCB, a Japanese bank for FX administration, corporate finance including company due diligence for loan lending, client relationship management and business development.
Isamu is a certificated member of the Securities Analyst Association of Japan (CMA).
Yizhe Chen is a Principal based in Tokyo. He has been involved in investments including Primo Japan, Wendy’s First Kitchen, C-United (formed through the merger of Kohikan, Chat Noir, and Café de CRIE), Wellness Communications, J-CEP, and Shin Nihon Jusetsu Group, particularly focusing on developing growth strategies, accelerating digital transformation, and leading acquisitions and global expansion. Prior to joining Longreach, Yizhe was a Manager at A.T. Kearney. Yizhe has a Master of Engineering from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from the London Business School.
T.J. Kono joined Unison Capital in 2002. He has managed a number of investments in Japan since Unison’s first fund, then led Unison’s expansion to Korea as its founding member. Today, he serves as an Investment Committee member in both Japan and Korea. He has been involved in Unison’s investments in Drug Eleven (Japan), Mine-Mart (Japan), UCOM (Japan), Nexcon Technology (Korea), Gong cha (Korea)/Royal Tea Taiwan (Taiwan), and Minacia (Japan). In addition to investment role, he oversees Unison Group’s investor relations functions. Prior to Unison Capital, he worked at Merrill Lynch Japan.
Mr. Kono has a B.S/B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Toshihide joined T Capital Partners (formerly Tokio Marine Capital) in May 2025. He has over 20 years extensive experience covering financial sponsors, including private equity funds, to provide a broad range of advisory (TOB and curve-out etc.), financing (including IPO) and PE fund related products in investment banking. He founded and led the financial sponsor coverage team at Citigroup Global Markets Japan (formerly Nikko Citigroup) since 2005. Prior to joining T Capital, he was a Managing Director at Nomura International (London) to cover financial sponsors and trading houses to promote and lead cross-border deals after working at Nomura Securities (Tokyo) where he joined in 2017 as a sponsor coverage. He had been involved in a wide range of sectors; TMT, Business Services, C&R, Healthcare, Industrials and Financial Services.
Toshihide has a B.A in Law from Keio University.
Mr. Mitsui joined Advantage Partners in October 2024. Prior to this, he was a Senior Partner at Bain & Company Japan, where he led the Tokyo office’s healthcare and life-science practice and its performance improvement practice. Before working at Bain, he was a Managing Partner at PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) in Tokyo from 2017 to 2020, where he founded and led the Japan PE Strategy and Value Creation Practice. Throughout his career in management consulting, he led numerous large scale transformation programs for Japanese and overseas corporations across a variety of industries such as pharma, med-tech, manufacturing, financial services, and infrastructure. He first started his career at Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., as an urban and regional planner in 1989. He holds a B.Eng and M.Eng in engineering from the university of Tokyo, and an MCP (Master in City Planning) from MIT. He is a member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.