14 years experience in venture investment/incubation and private equity, and 12 years experience in management consulting

• Managing Partner and IC members at Visionnaire Ventures (US-Japan venture capital fund)
• Former CIO/COO at Mistletoe and COO at MOVIDA (Taizo’s investment/ incubation arms)
• Experienced consultant at Bain & Company and Roland Berger in TMT/manufacturing/environment
• Founding member and partner at a boutique PE/growth capital fund (Iwakaze Capital)

Led a prominent venture company to cross border IPO combined with experience in finance / investment

• Board of Director, CFO., GLM Co., Ltd., an EV startup from Kyoto University
  • Raised large amount of capital from Japanese and foreign sovereign/ family office investors.
  • Led 1.5B USD cross boarder M&A/IPO.
  • Promoted international marketing at GLM
• Vice President at a boutique PE/growth capital fund (Iwakaze Capital)
• The youngest investment banker in the world as a DCM Capital Market Division., Deutsche Securities
• Registered Representatives certified by Japan
• The Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business Administration

A serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in investing and incubating IT related venture companies in Asia.

• Founder of Mistletoe, as well as board member and advisor to various startup companies around the globe.
• With a vision to create Silicon Valley-like venture eco-system in East Asia by year 2030, Taizo founded Mistletoe in 2013. He strongly believes the World could be transformed into better place by nurturing entrepreneurs which would lead the creation of next generation.
• Founded Gungho Online which is one of the most successful online gaming companies in Japan in 2002, which had its IPO in 2005.

Led venture investment division and a new telecom company formation, and worked in North and Latin America at Mitsubishi Corporation. Has extensive global network.

• Senior Advisor, Mistletoe, Inc. (Current)
• COO, Mistletoe USA
• Senior Advisor, MOVIDA Japan Inc.
• Division COO, Information Systems and Services Division-A & E-Commerce Division, Mitsubishi Corporation
• Engineer, Radio and Broadcasting Equipment Division, Toshiba

A pioneer of Japanese tech industry as a founder of Microsoft Japan with extensive business network in Japan and globally

• Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
• VP for Advanced Strategy, Microsoft Corp.
• Founder and initial Representative Director, Microsoft Japan
• Board Member, ASCII

Worked closely with Masa Son at SoftBank to support global business investments, JV formation/ operation

• Managing Director, Mistletoe Singapore (Current)
• Executive Partner, Mistletoe Japan (Current)
• SVP Global Business, SoftBank
• CEO, Bharti SoftBank India
• Board Member, InMobi
• Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan
• CMO, Yahoo! Japan
• Accenture

Serving as President of Brose East Asia overseeing Japan, Korea and ASEAN. Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg is one of the largest automotive suppliers in the world, especially in mechatronics.

Olivier has over 27 years of experience in the automotive industry, including 19 years at Faurecia and 7 years at Renault. He has held number of development and management positions in both companies, and has worked in France, Germany, Korea, and Japan.

Olivier Fidry holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Metz (France) and business degrees from INSEAD.

Bridge Japanese companies and US market/ US companies and Japanese market. Living in Bay Area more than 10 years.

• President & CEO, Too Corporation Americas (former)
• Venture related business experiences at SoftBank, MOVIDA, etc.
• Business development at Walt Disney Japan and Marvel Japan
• The George Washington University, MBA
• Keio University, BA in Economics

More than 10 years experience in accounting, finance, and management with expertise in IPO practice

• Investment and management of investment funds
  • Investment and management of regional development funds
• IPO practice experience
  • Health food delivery venture: in charge of IPO (listed in 2015)
  • EV venture: contributed to crossborder IPO (listed in 2017)
  • Nursery school operation venture: IPO support (listed in 2018)
  • Web marketing venture: IPO support (listed in 2021)

Has about 20 years of experience as a relationship manager at major Japanese and non-Japanese financial institutions, where he was involved in fund raising of various credit products (over JPY 100B in total).

• Vice President, Societe Generale Securities
• Deputy Head, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities
• Vice President, Banco Itaú Unibanco, the largest bank in the southern hemisphere
• Nomura Securities Co.
• Law Department, Faculty of Law, Tokyo Metropolitan University