Kosei Terami Senior Client Relations Manager IFC ASSET MANAGEMENT

Kosei joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, in 2005. Before joining the current team in Singapore, he was Deputy Representative in Tokyo and Investment Officer at Private Equity and Investment Funds Department in Washington DC. Previously, Kosei worked at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and the Sumitomo Bank (currently Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) in New York, Osaka, and Tokyo. He holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and an LLB from Kyoto University.

Yusuke Ichikawa Partner ADVANTAGE PARTNERS

Yusuke Ichikawa joined Advantage Partners in March 2003.

He has executed 14 Private Equity and PIPES investments, including highly successful deals such as Nihonkaisui with its bold industry restructuring and Net Protections, a leading Japanese fintech growth stock that went public. He has led industry initiatives within the fund related to digital, B2B services, and healthcare. Currently, he is responsible for and serves on the boards of Nareru Group, Material Group, and Spiral, among other investments in the relevant industries.

Other notable investment angles include.

Turnarounds

Turnaround investments in the former Kanebo, Inc. and Megane Super, Inc. resulted in significant improvements in profitability by improving cost structures and renewing brands.

Owner business succession and roll-up

After taking over the business from the founders, Oishes and Nihon Meika Sohonpo incorporated M&A as a core part of their strategy to integrate and operate multiple B2C brands and achieve margin expansion.

Infrastructure and energy investments

Invested in Neo Corporation, an electricity-saving service provider, and Ecolocity, a leading parking lot operator, to expand its customer base and create value through marketing digitization.

Shohei Akiyama Partner, Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer NSSK

Shohei Akiyama is Partner, a member of NSSK’s five-person Management Committee and is Chief Administrative Officer (“CAO”) at NSSK and is responsible for all the operation functions in NSSK’s Business Support Team (including accounting, tax, legal and compliance functions). Prior to assuming his role as CAO, Shohei was a Director on the Investment Team and has been with NSSK since its founding. Before joining NSSK, Shohei was at JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd. in their Investment Banking Division. At J.P. Morgan, he was responsible for a number of major transactions for Japanese companies including cross-border M&A and global IPOs. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (B.A.).

Reijiro Yamamoto Founding Partner INTEGRAL

Reijiro (Ray) Yamamoto, a founding Partner of Integral has over 20 years of experience in investment banking activities including domestic and cross-border M&A, MBOs, LBOs, going-private transactions, debt-restructuring, workouts of multi-national insolvent companies and sales of non-performing loans in Japan, Europe and the US. He is extremely knowledgeable on deal financing issues, having arranged, structured, negotiated financing for numerous transactions.

Mr. Yamamoto began his career with Mitsui Bank (the current Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)) in 1984. In 1990, he joined AT Kearney as a management consultant in Chicago and subsequently, he moved to London in 1991, where he engaged in Sakura Bank’s (currently SMBC’s) structured finance. After 7+ years in London, he returned to Japan in 1998 and joined Sakura Bank’s Mergers and Acquisitions Department (currently SMBC’s M&A firm) where he was in charge of the cross-border M&A group. In 2000, he joined Unison Capital, one of the first buyout funds in Japan. When he was with Unison Capital, he played a key role in the success of Unison’s first fund. He provided advisory services to his portfolio companies often taking on the director role at the companies in which the fund invested.

While at GCA, he structured and closed the MBO of World Co., Ltd., the largest MBO in Japan and also led a lot of landmark M&A deals of Japan such as a US$19 billion worth merger between Hankyu and Hanshin railway companies. He was also an investment committee of Fund I of Mezzanine Corporation, a 100% subsidiary of GCA and the first independent Mezzanine investment firm in Japan.

Yasunori Maeda Managing Director SUNRISE CAPITAL

Mr. Maeda currently serves as a deal leader and director for BE FORWARD CO., LTD. in Sunrise IV as well as Worldplus Inc. in Sunrise III. In addition, he serves as the deal leader and director for Lcode Ltd. in Sunrise II. Previously, he served as a deal leader and director for WORLD PARTY CO., Ltd. in Sunrise III and WORLDTOOL Co., Ltd in Sunrise II. In addition, he was a deal member and director/auditor for MIRIVE Co., Ltd. in Sunrise II as well as a deal member and director for Everlife Co., Ltd. in Sunrise I. Prior to joining the Sunrise team in April 2011, he was an Associate on the Japan private equity team at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for 2 years. Mr. Maeda began his career at the Investment Banking Division of Nikko Citigroup Limited ("Nikko Citigroup") where he worked on various M&A and capital markets transactions mainly in the Japanese financial services industry. During his tenure at Nikko Citigroup, he also worked on the financial services M&A team at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (NY). Mr. Maeda holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from Kyoto University.