Chairperson, Executive Committee

  c.wells@aima-japan.org

Elected to the AIMA Japan board in October 2002.

Christopher Wells has worked as a lawyer in Japan since 1983. His practice is focused on financial regulatory, securities, banking, telecommunications and general corporate matters.

Mr Wells concentrates in financing and banking transactions, including cross-border securities offers, credit financings and syndications, equipment financings and securitization transactions. He has for almost a decade represented various United States, French, German and English banks providing credit in connection with Japanese equipment financings and securities offerings. Mr. Wells also assists multinational financial groups in issues related to regulatory compliance and license qualification matters in Japan. Mr. Wells' corporate experience includes representations in connection with the formation and subsequent operation of several of the largest multi-jurisdictional joint ventures in Japan. He also has assisted numerous United States, French, German and other foreign international corporate groups in the establishment of business presences in Japan.

Mr Wells has been the Chair of the Financial Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan since 1998. In that capacity he coordinates the activities of eight subcommittees covering the securities, banking and finance, investment management, insurance, private equity, real estate finance, pension and securitization and ratings industries in Japan.

The author of numerous industry publications over the past fifteen years, Mr Wells received his BA from the University of Rochester, his JD from the University of California and his MBA from the University of California.

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Co-Vice Chairperson, Executive Committee

  h.hashiguchi@aima-japan.org

Elected to the AIMA Japan board in June 2003.

Managing Director, Japan & Regional Director – Sales & Relationship Management, Fortis Prime Fund Solutions (Japan) Limited

Hideki Hashiguchi is the Japan representative for Fortis Prime Fund Solutions, of which specializes in providing fund administration services to offshore alternative investment funds such as Hedge Fund, Fund of Funds and Private Equity Fund and is charged with enhancing and expanding the service levels and product range for Japanese clients in Asia.

He has more than 20 years experience with a number of key financial institutions in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Prior to join to Fortis, he was the lead representative of HSBC Global Fund Services where he was Japan Representative of HSBC`s fund administration services business.

He served the Chairman of AIMA Japan Executive Committee for the last three years between Jan 2007 and Feb 2010.

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Co-Vice Chairperson, Executive Committee

  s.shiraki@aima-japan.org

Elected to the AIMA Japan board in June 2001.

Mr Shiraki is CIO and Managing Director at Monex Alternative Investments, where he since 2005 has been in charge of investments and development of financial products mostly in the alternative assets area. He also works for Asuka Asset Management, one of the biggest hedge fund management firms in Japan, as vice president supporting strategy development.

Prior this role, he worked for Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ Group (ex-Sanwa Bank) and launched a fund of funds investment business at UFJ Partners Investments in 2000. He also helped develop a Japan equity market neutral strategy for the group. He joined Sanwa Bank in 1993 and traded a variety of investments, including fixed income, as well as investing in hedge funds and private equity funds.

Mr Shiraki graduated from Keio University with a BA in Economics. He also graduated from London Business School with a Masters in Finance. He is a Chartered Member of the Security Analyst Association of Japan (passing two exams similar to CFA).

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Co-Vice Chairperson, Executive Committee

  e.rogers@aima-japan.org

Elected to the AIMA Japan board in May 2002.

Ed Rogers is CEO of Tokyo-headquartered Rogers Investment Advisors, which opened in May 2006. RIA advises on two Japanese Hedge Funds. The funds launched on Nov. 1st. 2006 with investments in 13 Japan focused hedge funds.

Mr. Rogers was head of Prime Services sales for Deutsche Bank in Tokyo prior to opening RIA and a member of the DB Tokyo Equities Management committee from 2002-2006. Before joining DB Mr. Rogers was a proprietary structured products trader at Merrill Lynch in London.

Mr. Rogers Asian career began in 1987 when he was awarded a "Princeton in Asia Fellowship". Mr. Rogers worked in Tokyo for two years at NKK, formerly the second largest steel company in Japan, followed by eight years in the foreign exchange business at MW Marshalls. In 1993 Mr. Rogers moved to Hong Kong for four years to run regional Australian and Canadian swap product for M.W. Marshall.

Mr. Rogers appears frequently on Bloomberg and other news programs as a commentator on the Japanese economy and hedge fund investments in Japan.
Mr. Rogers received a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

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Chairperson, Research Committee

  s.horie@aima-japan.org

Elected to the AIMA Japan board in May 2005.

Sadayuki Horie is a senior researcher at the Nomura Research Institute (NRI) in Tokyo, the largest think tank in Japan. Mr. Horie has over 26 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Mr. Horie started his career as a quantitative analyst in fixed income analytics in 1981. In 1986, he developed the NRI-Bond Performance Index (later renamed as the Nomura BPI), which is now the industry standard. During 1986-88, he worked with Professor John Cox of MIT and Professor Robert Litzenberger of Wharton for the developments of exotic option models and the term structure model of US fixed income markets in the New York office. From 1996 to 2001, he was the head of the quantitative group of Nomura Asset Management, managing over $1bn through global tactical asset allocation and currency overlay funds. Mr. Horie wrote many articles in the Security Analysts Journal, Corporate Pension, Pension & Economics, Fund Management and other journals for last 26 years.

During 2001, he returned to NRI to work on pension fund consulting and advanced asset management research. Mr. Horie is a graduate of the Kobe University of Commerce and is a visiting professor of the graduate school of Osaka University of Economics.

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Member, Executive Committee

  p.Itoh@aima-japan.org

Elected to the AIMA Japan board in July 2003.

Mr. Itoh is a founding partner of Japan Venture Partners, LLC(JVP), a Delaware limited liability company that has principal offices in Tokyo, Research Triangle Park and Silicon Valley.
JVP is an Investment Advisory Company registered with the Japanese Financial Services Agency.

He has co-founded JVP, a company offers consulting services for international technology companies and financial institutions. Mr. Itoh plays an active role in introducing global hedge fund products to Japanese institutions, represents a mid-market U.S. private equity fund for deal sourcing and business development activity.

He has also provided financial advisory services to a number of corporations and financial service companies.

Prior to Co-founding JVP, Mr. Itoh was President and Representative Director of UBS Fund Management Japan whose functions included structuring and offering fund products to UBS' private banking clients and to Japanese banks that became fund distributors. Mr. Itoh's prior career included positions as Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney, director at First Boston Corporation (Credit Suisse) and Vice President of Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Mr. Itoh received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Cambridge University and a B.A. degree in Management Science from Konan University. He is currently Chairman of Claritage Capial, LP, and serves on the board of Maxager Technology, Japan, Co.

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Chairperson, Website Committee

  c.donald@aima-japan.org

Elected to the Board of Directors July 2008.

Christopher Donald has worked as head of Global Prime Finance (Japan) since July 2007 for Deutsche Securities Inc. His responsibilities include the trading and management of the Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending and Synthetic Delta-1 business units in Japan. Mr. Donald joined DB in 2000 and has held positions in client reporting, securities lending and business management.

Prior to joining DB, Mr. Donald was a principal in Hazelton Partners, a boutique Canadian VC firm that specialised in real estate and technology related investments. He is a trustee of the Canadian Storage Investment Trust and a principal of Red Dragon Corporation.

Mr. Donald received his CFA designation (1997) from the CFA institute, MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business (1993) and BA in History from the University of Toronto (1988).

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Chairperson, Professional Events Committee

  s.miyata@aima-japan.org

Elected to the Board of Directors 2010.

Shinobu Miyata joined Moore in 2007 to establish Moore Management Inc., a Tokyo office of Moore Group, and has overall responsibility for our expanding Japanese business. Moore Group is a Jersey based specialist provider group of fund management, fund administration and corporate services, including offshore unit trust platform for Japanese mutual fund market.

Shinobu has extensive experience in structured funds, particularly securitisation and offshore investment schemes. Prior to joining Moore Shinobu held senior positions at MCP Inc, Citibank, Credit Suisse Trust and Banking and Shinsei Trust and Banking.

Shinobu received BSc and MSc from Keio University.

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Chairperson, Regulatory Committe

  t.ohnuma@aima-japan.org

Elected to the Board of Directors 2010.

Toyomi Ohnuma is President & CIO of Zest Asset Management Limited, which is a Japan-based hedge fund gatekeeper or fund of hedge funds manager and a member company of Nipponkoa Insurance group.

Mr. Ohnuma joined Nisshoiwai Corp (currently, Sojitz Corp.) ,one of the general trading house (Sogo Sho-sha) in 1985, at which he was responsible for foreign exchange and derivative dealings.
He has transferred to its New York subsidiary in 1994, where he engaged in hedge fund and private equity investment, and investment advisory business structuring of the company.
He has been working for ZEST since 2001, when he returned to Japan.

He received his BA from Waseda Univ.

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