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Sylvain is the co-founder and CEO of SESAMm, an innovative fintech company specializing in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.
Its team builds analytics and investment signals by analyzing billions of web articles and messages using natural language processing and machine learning, the core technologies behind SESAMm products TextReveal and SignalReveal.
Holding a double degree in engineering made in France and Germany, Sylvain's passion for artificial intelligence and finance led him to create SESAMm in 2014.
The company has offices in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Tunis and works with major hedge funds, banks, and asset management clients around the world for both fundamental and quantitative use cases.

Toranosuke Onishi is member of Tokio Marine Nichido&Fire Insurance Co. Ltd and works as a data scientist and foreign interest rates analyst. He is one of the persons in charge of collaboration project with SESAMm.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo (graduated in 2020).

Yusuke Tomishima works as a data scientist and a quants at Tokio Marine.

He holds a Master’s degree in Physics (University of Tokyo) and an MBA in Finance (Hitotsubashi University Business School), is a CFA charterholder, and is an author of several books commercially published in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea.

In March 2019, the Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) decided to create the position of Chief Sustainable Finance Officer (CSFO), to plan and coordinate on promotion of sustainable finance internally and globally. Upon its creation he was appointed, and has been serving, as the first CSFO.

In this capacity, he covers a wide range of issues concerning sustainable finance which include, among other things, aligning private finance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promoting TCFD disclosures by business corporations and financial institutions alike, acting as Vice-chair of the Impact Investing Roundtable co-organized by GSG National Advisory Board of Japan and JFSA, and serving as Co-chair of the Work Stream on ESG Data and Ratings of the IOSCO Sustainability Taskforce as well as Co-chair of the Work Stream on Climate Disclosures of the FSB.

Mr. Ohashi is a graduate of Tokyo University, later studied at Harvard Law School, and is an attorney at law from the New York State Bar. He started his career with the Bank of Japan where he was based in the Financial System Department. Following that he did a secondment as a Senior Economist at the IMF, before returning to the Bank of Japan as a Director of the Bank Supervision Department. He has subsequently held senior level positions within 3 other financial institutions before joining CLSA, Japan in 2018 as the Head of Compliance.

His publications include "Japan’s Distressed-Debt Market” (May 2004, IMF Working Paper), "A Case for Reforming the JGB Market” (July 1998, Bank of Japan Working Paper), "Experiences of Three Eastern European Countries During the Russian Crisis – An Analysis of “Contagion’” ( March 1999, Bank of Japan Working Paper)”.

Daiki is APAC Surveillance Technical Officer at Credit Suisse Securities since Apr 2022.

He is the lead and key coordinator to align upgrade of Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening and Trade & eComm surveillance model and tools across APAC in line with global strategic direction.

For more than 15 years, he has been engaged in trade surveillance at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas.

After graduating from Simon Fraser University (BBA), he worked as an actuary for a consulting firm and a casualty insurance company.

Takashi is Head of Compliance for CLSA Securities Japan, where he joined recently after working for Deutsche Bank Group from 2013 to 2022. He covered Regulatory Relation and Core Compliance in Compliance Department in Deutsche Securities and Head of Compliance for Deutsche Bank Tokyo Branch. Before joining Deutsche Bank Group, he worked for Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale as Senior Compliance Officer. Before that, he worked for Bank of Japan from 1997 to 2013, where he mainly engaged in supervision of financial institutions, and creation and implementation of international financial regulation of Basel Committee and FSB. He holds a MBA from University of Oxford (2002), MSc from University of Reading (2003) and Bachelor of Law from University of Tokyo (1997).

Joined Nippon Credit Bank in 1996. He has been engaged in the development of the BOJ RTGS and securities settlement system in Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. since 1999.

After that, he joined BNP Paribas Securities in 2000, and worked on IT system development in the back division until 2012. From 2004 to 2006, worked at BNP Paribas (London) to develop a global bond trading platform. After returning to Japan, he took up the post of Head of Operations and later concurrently held the banking division. Finally, as Head of IT and Operations, he oversaw IT infrastructure, IT security and IT governance, as well as IT and operations for each product.

From 2010 to 2012, he served concurrently as Auditor of Japan Government Clearing Corporation.

Joined Societe Generale Securities /Bank and Lyxor Asset Management in 2012. As COO, he led the start-up of flow business, integration with Newedge Securities with the achievement of Japanese incorporation (KK) , and renovation project of back office system. In addition, we constructed an office environment for work style reform in conjunction with office relocation.

July 2018, Joined Mizuho Securities. As COO of the Global Markets Division, he has worked across products to build GTOM (Global Target Operating Model Committee) to promote the establishment of Business and IT infrastructure from a front-to-back perspective, and since April 2020 has also served as Global Joint Operations Head in Operations. In April 2021, he also started the mission of Attached to FG CIO and is taking charge of the overseas IT structural reform of Mizuho Financial Group. In addition, Joint Head of Operations Group has been added since April 2022.