CEO, Shibusawa and Company, Inc. | Chairman, Commons Asset Management, Inc. | CEO, &Capital, Inc.
Born in 1961, he moved to the United States in 1969 with his father's job transfer and graduated in chemical engineering from the University of Texas in 1983. After working at the Japan Center for International Exchange, he earned his MBA from UCLA in 1987. He worked in markets at U.S. investment banks including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, joined the hedge fund Moore Capital Management in 1996, and headed its Tokyo representative office from 1997. In 2001 he went independent and founded Shibusawa and Company, Inc.; in 2007 he founded Commons Inc. (renamed Commons Asset Management, Inc. in 2008, where he became chairman); and in January 2023 he established &Capital, Inc. as CEO. He leads a management school on "The Analects and the Abacus" (Rongo to Soroban). In June 2025 he was appointed director of Kyushu Financial Group and outside director of Seven Bank. He is a senior advisor to Brunswick Group and Bain & Company Japan; a board member of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and lead chair of its Middle East & Africa Committee; an advisor to the President's Office of the University of Tokyo; and chairman of NHK's International Broadcasting Programming Council. He also serves as co-chair of Triple I for Global Health, head of GSG Impact JAPAN, a member of the Financial Services Agency's Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, and a member of METI's Health and Productivity Management study group. His books include "100 Lessons from Eiichi Shibusawa," "SDGs Investment," "33 Teachings of Eiichi Shibusawa for an Unbreakable Spirit," and "The Analects and the Abacus and the SDGs for Bankers," among others.
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