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• In February 2020 Mr. Tamama joined a real estate investment advisory start-up in Tokyo, PROFITZ K.K. as Chief Investment Officer. PROFITZ is an established development and asset management company focused on residential and office assets in Japan with total AUM of approx. US$200 mn.
• Prior to joining PROFITZ in February 2022, Mr. Tamama worked for Abu Dhabi Investment Authority from 2013 to 2022, and managed its real estate portfolio as a senior management in the Asia Pacific team. He primarily covered the Japan, Korea and India markets and managed US$4 bn GAV assets on average during his tenor.
• From 2005 to 2012, Mr. Tamama worked for LaSalle Investment Management and Shinsei Bank. He sourced and made investments for LaSalle Asia Opportunity Fund I & II and acquired US$750 mn GAV assets. He also took fund management role for LaSalle Japan Logistics Fund I & II, and managed US$ 2.5 bn portfolio and led divestment of JLF I portfolio. At Shinsei Bank, Mr. Tamama led sourcing, structuring, pricing, and execution of property backed non-recourse loans. He financed approximately 100 real estate transactions and provided US$8 bn loans over five years.
• Prior to 2005, Mr. Tamama was engaged in investment in non-performing loans (NPLs) at Daiwa SMBC Principal Investments.
• Mr. Tamama received a BA from Keio University (Faculty of Economics) and a MS in Real Estate Development from Columbia University. He finished a general management program (GMP) at Harvard Business School. Mr. Tamama is a member of both the CFA Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Tatsuo is Managing Director and Head of Quant Team in Investment Division at Japan Post Bank since 2016, and he is a member of the ALM Committee. He is responsible for all quantitative analysis including asset allocation, front risk management and investment strategies as well as developing trading systems for the investment division. From 2018, he is also responsible for Rates and FX Department. Prior to joining Japan Post Bank, his career started with Morgan Stanley Japan in 1999 as Interest Rate Strategist after graduating from Graduate School of Waseda University with a Masters Degree in Mathematics.  In 2005, he joined ABN AMRO Securities Japan, which was subsequently integrated into RBS Securities Japan, as head of Japan Research.
 
Tatsuo rejoined Morgan Stanley Japan in October 2009 and became head of JGB/swap trading and sales desk.  He was promoted to Managing Director in 2010 and appointed Head of Japan Interest Rate Product Group. He was named Co-Head of Japan Fixed Income and appointed to a Board member of Morgan Stanley Japan Holdings in January 2013. His last role at Morgan Stanley MUFG was Head of Japan Fixed Income Trading.

While working at Japan Post Bank, Tatsuo is teaching fixed income investments and ALM strategy at Tokyo Metropolitan University where he earned PhD in Business Administration.

Kouhei Iinuma is General Manager of Integrated Risk Management Division in Shinsei Bank. I am managing market risk and quantitative analysis including trading and banking book especially interest rate and FX products. Prior to current position, I was exotic derivative trader and product structurer. I have experienced market for twenty years. I am part-time teacher at Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University.

Shinichi Yoshiya is an Executive Director in the Legal Division of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Yoshiya covers a broad range of complex cross-border financial regulatory matters and transactions for Morgan Stanley’s Japan and Asia Pacific region including OTC derivatives regulations of Japan, U.S. and EU, the Volcker Rule, Resolution Stay, MiFID2, Brexit, LIBOR and Basel 3 capital rules. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Yoshiya was an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advising on financial regulatory matters. Mr. Yoshiya has held academic appointments at Duke University Law School as Visiting Professor and currently teaches global financial regulations at Meiji University Law School. Duke University, Law School (LL.M.), Aoyama Gakuin University, Business School (M.B.A.), Sophia University (LL.B.). Mr. Yoshiya is admitted to the bar of the state of New York.

Shin Arie joined Amundi (former Société Générale Asset Management) in 2004 as a senior portfolio manager of both domestic and global fixed income portfolios and was appointed as Head of Fixed Income Department in 2006, and then as Chief Investment Officer / Head of Investment Management Division in 2020. Prior to joining Amundi, he was a senior portfolio manager at Toyota Asset Management (current Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management), from 1999 to 2004, to manage global fixed income portfolios in both active and passive methodologies for Japanese financial institutions including pension funds. He started his investment career as a portfolio manager at Chiyoda Fire and Marine Insurance (current Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance) in 1991 and experienced the portfolio management of Japanese/US/Global fixed income as well as derivative trading including JGB futures/options and swaps for 6 years in Tokyo and then equity portfolio management for 2 years in London.

Shin holds BEs from Kyushu University, and MBA in finance from Yokohama National University. He is a CFA charterholder.

September 2002 -  March 2003: council member, council for establishing of
JAPAN POST, selected by P M. Junichiro Koizumi

January 2004 - Aug 2004: Vice Chairman, Deutsche Securities, Tokyo.

Sep.13 - Dec .2, 2004: Managing Director, Co Head of Research & chief fixed
income strategist , Credit Suisse First Boston, Tokyo

Dec.3, 2004 – Dec. 3, 2009: Member of Policy Board, the Bank of Japan.

January 1, 2010 – March 2012: Managing Director, Vice Chairman - Fixed Income, APAC, Credit Suisse (Hong Kong).

April 1, 2012 - April 8, 2019: Managing Director, and Vice Chairman and Member of Board of Directors, Credit Suisse Securities (JAPAN) Member of Board of Directors, Credit Suisse Securities (JAPAN) Limited.

January 2019 - August 20202020: Director, Audit and Supervisory Commit: Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member, Joyson Safety Systems Japan K.K.

Katsuyuki Utata is Head of Derivatives & Solutions in the Global Markets department at UBS Securities Japan.

In UBS Securities Japan, he is responsible for structuring across all asset classes and administering derivative trading activities.

Prior to current position, he held various trading and structuring roles in Interest Rate Options, Exotic and Hybrid Options, and Structured Credit.

Katsuyuki holds Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management from Bocconi University.

Dr. Shinichiro Itozaki is a Senior Manager of Financial Engineering Division at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. Ltd. Dr. Itozaki is responsible for planning and quantitative research of XVA, ISDA SIMM, interest rate benchmark reform, and OTC derivatives market reform in general. Dr. Itozaki received a Ph. D. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Tokyo.

Mr. Motoyoshi is responsible for pricing XVA covering globally, and enacting hedge strategy at XVA desk. He is also engaged in quantitative analysis as a desk quant.

He graduated from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo, and is a FRM.

Shinichi Yoshiya is Head of Regulatory Affairs for Japan and APAC in the Legal Division of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Yoshiya covers a broad range of complex cross-border financial regulatory matters and transactions for Morgan Stanley’s Japan and Asia Pacific region including ESG, OTC derivatives regulations of Japan, U.S. and EU, the Volcker Rule, Resolution Stay, MiFID2, Brexit, LIBOR and Basel 3 capital rules. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Yoshiya was an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advising on financial regulatory matters. Mr. Yoshiya has held academic appointments at Duke University Law School as Visiting Professor and currently teaches global financial regulations at Meiji University Law School. Duke University, Law School (LL.M.), Aoyama Gakuin University, Business School (M.B.A.), Sophia University (LL.B.). Mr. Yoshiya is admitted to the bar of the state of New York.

Akira Yamamoto joined SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. as Chief risk officer in September 2021. He delivers his insights and solutions with regard to the optimized risk return in a wide range of risk assets including Loan, Derivatives, Real Estate, Funds, and Structured Finance from the perspectives of credit and market risk.

As a senior risk manager with 30 years of experience in the commercial and investment banking industries as well as a global rating agency, he has obtained an enhanced recognition among Japanese and non-Japanese institutional investors and made contributions to the public sector through the advisories specialized in Alternative products.

Prior to joining SMBC Nikko Securities, Mr. Yamamoto spent more than ten years working at MUFG Bank until 2000 being engaged in the corporate loan underwriting. After that, he spent five years at Standard & Poor’s as a lead analyst specialized in Structured Finance, and Morgan Stanley as a head of Corporate & Structured Finance Credit Risk covering the alternative assets such as securitization, real estate, leveraged loans, hedge funds and commodities in addition to the traditional assets such as equity and fixed income. He also spent seven years at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings by leading various projects in relation to Structured Finance and enhancement of market credit risk management framework.

Mr. Yamamoto is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst - Certified by CAIA Association, and a Financial Risk Manager - Certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals.