Joined Benesse Group Mutual Aid Society in January 2001, in charge of accounting and secretarial work; transferred to Benesse Group Corporate Pension Fund in January 2005, in charge of assisting with asset management and accounting; appointed Director of Operations in January 2007; appointed Managing Director in November 2020, up to present. 

Riza Okada is a Director and Head of APAC Client Solutions at Capstone Investment Advisors having joined the firm in 2024. Most recently, Riza was a Director in the Investor Relations team at Capula Investment Management where he oversaw the expansion of the Japan office from 2016 to 2023. Riza joined Capula from Goldman Sachs Asset Management where he was a Vice President within the Alternative Investments and Manager Selection (AIMS) group from 2009 to 2016. Prior to this Riza held the role Product Specialist at Société General Asset Management between 2007 and 2009. Riza began his career in the financial services industry as a Fixed Income analyst at Bloomberg in 2006.

Riza received his BSc Economics, Finance and Management from Queen Mary University of London in 2005.

Duncan Valentine is Capstone’s Head of Investor Relations and Client Solutions. Duncan joined Capstone in 2008 after spending 12 years trading and managing derivatives teams across European markets. He began his career working alongside CEO Paul Britton at Saratoga Limited. While there, he worked on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) as an options market maker, eventually moving into trading equity and index options on the AEX floor in the Netherlands. Following the management buyout of Saratoga by Mako Global Derivatives, Duncan relocated back to London to oversee European trading for Mako across all asset classes.

Duncan received an honors B.A. degree in Business and Economics from the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

Joined MCP Asset Management in 2018, promoted to partner in 2021. Member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining the firm, he was involved in equity research, securitisation products and alternative investments, and acquisitions of operating companies at Dai-ichi Life Insurance, before joining Mitsubishi Corporation Asset Management, where he was involved in research and monitoring of all alternative investments. He holds a BA from Kyoto University and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. 

Takashi Imai is head of Investment Management Business Dept. which is in charge of SMBC Nikko’s investment management business including running Nikko Fund Wrap as well as SMBC Fund Wrap with combining AUM of approx. JPY4trillion. 
Prior to joining SMBC Nikko Securities in 2017, he held several senior positions including Director at Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Prime Brokerage Div. and Managing Director and head of Product Management Dept. at BlackRock Japan.  
He started his career at ITOCHU Corporation where he was involved in its asset management business including 4.5 year secondment to its NY based hedge fund and FOF business.  

He earned Bachelor of Science degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology and participated in Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School. 

Minah Kim serves as Executive Director, Equity Index & Cryptocurrency Products for CME Group, based in Singapore. She is responsible for the development and execution of CME Group’s global equity index and cryptocurrency product strategies in the region.

Kim’s financial services career spans more than 20 years, including most recently serving as Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong before she joined CME Group in 2017. As a sales trader, she was in charge of servicing clients who trade multinational exchange-listed derivatives during Asian hours. Before that, Kim worked for Citigroup in Korea where she established the local presence of its futures and options desk, as well as for J.P.Morgan, where she traded listed derivatives for both international and domestic Korean institutional clients.

Kim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics & Diplomacy from Ewha Womans University, Korea, and a MBA from University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

Co-founder/ Managing Partner, Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital 

Investment Committee Member, Tokyo University of Science Foundation Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management at Tokyo University of Science 

Yuichi is the Managing Partner, at the Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital. Prior to joining the firm, He worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company.  

After working for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, he participated in the establishment of the incubation and investment department of Tokyo University of Science. Currently, he is the Managing Partner of Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital, a university-accredited venture capital firm. 

Chris Koshi is Managing Director, Head of Japan Equity Solutions. He is based in Tokyo.
Chris joined Bank of America in 2019 and has been responsible for the Equity Derivatives Distribution business focusing on QIS, equity linked structured notes and insurance solutions.
Chris joined from Credit Suisse where he was responsible for hybrids insurance solution.
Chris holds a Master’s degree in management from EM Lyon Business School.

Goshin is a senior advisor at FinCity.Tokyo leading several key initiatives. 

He has an extensive background in asset management and investment bank with more than 20 years’ global experiences in US, Europe, Middle East and Asia.  

Prior to the current role, Goshin started up Two Sigma Japan. Previously he launched Japan Equity Long Short strategy at Nikko Asset Managment.  

At Nomura Group, he chaired the Joint Investment Committee and managed fund of hedge fund portfolio (NY). He also gained experiences in Japanese Equity Trading( prop/arbitrage), launched Investment Research Companies( NY/ London) and had integral roles in Nomura proprietary capital investments (Acquisition of US investment firm and Development Project in Vietnam).  

Goshin holds BA (Waseda University), MBA( Wharton School), CFA, CMA( Chartered Member of Analyst Association in Japan), SEC FINRA Series 7, 63 and 24, Hong Kong Securities Institute Paper 1 and Japanese Certified Securities Broker Representative. 

He has been active in volunteer and mentorship participating in Wharton Work & Life Integration Project and guest lecturer at Wharton School, Waseda University and Rikkyo University. 

David Lutz is a Senior Vice President in HKEX’s Equities Product Development Department. In his role, he is responsible for the product offering and market development of the equity derivatives market in Hong Kong, including the Hang Seng derivatives and single stock options and futures markets.  

David joined HKEX in 2020, after working at its subsidiary, the London Metal Exchange. Prior to joining the HKEX Group, he traded equity, FX, commodity, and interest rate derivatives in New York, Chicago, and London, including with market maker Wolverine Trading and the principal trading firm FME Group.