Profile

25+ year career in Investment Banking (Salomon Brothers, UBS) with extensive experience in advising large corporate issuers and institutional investors on both Public and Private capital market transactions spanning the entire capitalization spectrum from Debt to Equity. In 2018, co-founded CapitaLink Partners, a financial and investment advisory firm based in Tokyo.

Researcher on a wide range of Capital Markets topics, including a Visiting Scholar position at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (~July 2024), and a Fellow appointment at University of Tokyo Center for Advanced Capital Markets Research (Present).

Received a BS in Urban Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1988 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996.