6th Annual Japan Investors Forum

Naoya SUGIMOTO is the Co-Chief Investment Officer, the head of Global Investment Department, the Deputy Director-General of Japan University Fund at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Prior to joining JST, he provided portfolio solutions through all asset classes to institutional investors at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to that, he headed Japan Strategy Team at PIMCO Japan leading portfolio solutions business, and worked for PIMCO headquarter office in US in charge of developing portfolio and risk management models. Prior to that, he served as a quant analyst at Credit Suisse, as the CSO/CFO for Forbes JAPAN, and worked at NTT Data on cryptography R&D in his career. He holds an MSc in Computer Science (AI) from the University of Tokyo. He is a CFA charterholder, CAIA charterholder, FRM, CMA, and CMTA.

Yoshi focuses innovative strategies and products with the investment horizon structures. He has more than 35 years of experience in investment and risk management. Before that, Mr. Kiguchi was a managing director of Russell Investments in Japan, where he supervised several teams, and delivered a wide range of consulting and solutions to the institutional clients including Toyota, Fujitsu, NEC, Sekisui, Toray, and Mazda. He joined Russell as a consultant in 1998.Prior to joining Russell, Mr. Kiguchi was with Sumitomo Life for ten years. He was placed in charge of corporate strategy, equity investments, researching capital markets, including private equities, and performing quanti-tative risk management and ALM.B.S., Precision Machinery (Robotics), the University of Tokyo, 1988.