Tetsuo Ohkubo

SMBC Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. provides collection and management of debt services. It also engages in the leasing of tenant buildings; telemarketing business; financing; loan guarantee; loan management; design, development and operation of computer systems; sale and maintenance of automobiles and investment businesses. The company was founded on March 20, 1962 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyu Land Corp. engages in the property development industry. It operates through the following segments: Real Estate Sales, Contracted Construction, Retail Sales, Leasing of Real Estate, Property Management, Facility Operations, Real-estate Agents, and Other. The Real Estate Sales segment provides the development and sale of condominiums, housing, and buildings. The Contracted Construction segment establishes and renovates high-rise residential and detached houses. The Retail Sales segment conducts retail sales of living products and do-it-yourself materials. The Leasing of Real Estate segment handles apartments, shopping centers, office buildings, and hotels for rent. The Property Management segment deals with general administration of buildings and condominiums. The Facility Operations segment manages and develops golf courses, resort-hotel membership, ski resorts, fitness clubs, and senior citizen housing. The Real Estate Agents segment serves as property sales representatives. The Other segment commissions business appraisals through its subsidiaries. The company was founded on December 17, 1953 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan Trustee Services Bank Ltd. engages in the provision of securities processing services. It manages securities related to retirement benefit trust, pension trust, independently designated money trust, specified money trust, securities investment trust, managed securities trust and investment securities trust. It also handles surplus management, lending, foreign exchange transactions, custody, account management institution business, trust business related to asset management and banking business. The company was founded on June 20, 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Golden Seeds LLC (Golden Seeds) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Stephanie Hanbury-Brown. The firm is headquartered in New York city with an additional offices in Arizona, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey, New York and Silicon Valley.

JA Mitsui Leasing Ltd. operates as a general leasing company that responds to the financial needs of customers. It provides lease-related services to cooperative members and people engaged in the agricultural, fisheries, and forestry industries. The firm focuses on financing, installments sales, and automobile and equipment leasing. The company was founded on April 1, 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Mercuria Investment Co. Ltd. (Mercuria Investment) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm was founded in 2005 as a joint venture of Development Bank of Japan Inc. and Asuka Asset Management Co. Ltd.

Development Bank of Japan, Inc. (DBJ) is a financial institution created in 1999 through the regrouping of JDB-Japan Development Bank and Hokkaido-Tohoku Development Finance Public Corp., and the adjunction of the finance divisions of Japan Regional Development Corp. and Japan Environment Corp. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with a network of domestic branches, as well as overseas offices in New York and London, and a subsidiary in Singapore. Formerly government-owned, DBJ underwent restructuring in 2007. The current structure was established in 2008 when a several-year privatization process was initiated. DBJ is a socially-committed investor. It provides long-term complementary financing and debt guarantees to promote the development of regional economies in Japan. The firm also supports technology-based enterprises, urban redevelopment and socially-desirable projects. It operates in collaboration with private sector financial institutions and favor projects with high policy content. As part of their investment activities, DBJ manages private equity funds.

Part of Ernst & Young Global Ltd., Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC is a Japanese company that helps governments and citizens build a better working world. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company specializes in managing complex private equity environments by providing technology-enabled, innovative solutions that streamline operations, drive efficiency and effectiveness, minimize risk and protect businesses. The CEO of the company is Moriaki Kida.

The Japan Economic Research Institute was established in 1946 by economists Takahashi and others, and later expanded by Dr. Osamu Shimomura with the support of the economy and academic society. The non-profit company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company's goal is to contribute to the development of the economic society and to promote independent and sustainable development of the local community.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Panasonic Finance Co., Ltd. provides leasing and financing services. It offers advanced financial instruments, such as leasing and credit services, and credit card financing services to a wide range of clients. The company was founded in October 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of AIFUL Corp., LIFE CARD Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that offers JCB gift cards that can be used at over 500,000 stores throughout Japan. Founded in 1952, the private company is based in Yokohama, Japan. The company also provides various discount services for shops, restaurants, and amusement spots both domestically and internationally. In addition to credit card and collection agency services, they also offer rental car and car sharing services, as well as cashing and loan, bank loan guarantee, and insurance services.

ANA Strategic Research Institute Co. Ltd. provides research and consulting services.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Systems & Services KK engages in the system development business for mainly financial industry. It operates through the following business segment: Consulting and System planning, System development, System infrastructure, System operation, Internet connection infrastructure service and OA support. The Consulting and System planning business segment offer consulting service for each development process of financial system. The System development business segment develops applications that meet a wide variety of needs. The System infrastructure business segment designs system infrastructure. The System operation provides high value-added services for stable system operation. The Internet connection infrastructure service offers seamless services from construction to operation. The OA support provides OA infrastructure construction, maintenance and support services. The company was founded in February 1973 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

UBS SuMi TRUST Wealth Management Co., Ltd. was founded in 2020 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company offers tailor-made solutions for asset management and succession of property to achieve the goals of each customer. The joint venture company provides comprehensive services mainly for wealthy customers, including the operation and management of financial assets and real estate, as well as support for important family and business issues. UBS SuMi TRUST publishes a foreign investment trust operation report and has achieved high-dimensional comprehensive power by providing products and services from UBS Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. The company has hundreds of analysts, economists, and strategists worldwide who monitor the market on behalf of customers and research UBS's investment strategy and investigation department chief investment office (CIO) gather and analyze the latest information from around the world to support customers' asset value.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd. (Investment Management) (SuMi TRUST) is the investment management division of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd., a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8309) in Japan. Founded in 1925, the firm changed their name in 2012 when Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co Ltd. merged Chuo Mitsui Trust & Banking Co Ltd. and Chuo Mitsui Asset Trust & Banking Co Ltd. to create Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd. Headquartered in Tokyo, SuMi TRUST manages a broad spectrum of Japanese as well as Asian equity products suite for corporate and governmental pension funds.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SMTAM) is the asset management subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8309, ADR: SUTNY) in Japan. Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm was founded in 1986 as STB Capital Management Co., Ltd. They became Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. in 2012 when STB Asset Management Co., Ltd. merged with Sumishin Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Chuo Mitsui Asset Management Co., Ltd. SMTAM provides market coverage and sales support for Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank's Japanese equity investment strategies to institutional investors and intermediaries in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.