WERU Investment Co. Ltd.

Founder and director; professor emeritus at Waseda University and former chairman of the Japan Academy of Entrepreneurship. He helped establish the university-affiliated WERU Investment and has long supported venture creation, serving on numerous government committees related to startups and industry-academia collaboration.

President and CIO who joined Nomura Securities in 1986, later managing venture and hedge funds before becoming president of WERU Investment in 2005. He holds a PhD from Waseda, serves as a visiting professor there, and holds roles with the Japan Academy of Entrepreneurship and JST's START program.

Founder who helped establish Misumi and served as its president, growing it into a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company, then founded M-Out in 2002 and became a director of WERU Investment in 2003.

Director and head of the fund department, a certified public accountant who joined WERU in 2006 and has invested in seed and early-stage ventures, serving as an outside director of companies such as VALUENEX. He oversees fund administration for pension funds, schools and institutional investors and was ranked 4th among Japan's most influential venture investors by Forbes JAPAN in 2018.

Head of the investment department and a venture capitalist involved in industry and technology research, investment structuring and portfolio business development, with a focus on commercializing university research and co-founding multiple companies.

Head of business development and chief analyst, a venture capitalist focused on domestic and overseas investments and technology commercialization, particularly US university and research-institution spinouts such as LeoLabs, where he serves as an outside director; formerly an aerospace engineer at NASA JPL and elsewhere.

Head of sales who joined WERU after some 20 years at a major Japanese securities firm and about 15 years at a foreign asset management firm, handling client relationships and investor proposals for institutional investors such as corporate pension funds.

Head of fixed income management who has worked in trading, interest-rate risk management and derivatives at a major Japanese trust bank and a European financial institution, joining WERU in 2018 to handle bond management.

Auditor and Waseda University business school professor specializing in accounting and finance, with experience in audits, IPO consulting and M&A, who has served as WERU Investment's auditor since 2005.

Head of equity management with over 30 years of fund management experience at Mitsui Trust Bank, FE Invest and WERU, handling domestic equity and REIT management for schools and pension funds since 2018.