KOTORA's Team

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KOTORA's Team

Daichi Baba

Executive Consultant

Tatsuya Kaga

Executive Consultant

Kyotaro Aminaka

Executive Consultant

Tetsuo Ueda

Executive Consultant

Eriko Nakagawa

Executive Consultant

Shuya Nozawa

Executive Consultant

Masashi Yoshizawa

Executive Consultant

Haruki Yoshimi

Executive Consultant

Taizo Matsubara

Executive Consultant

Sohei Yoshida

Executive Consultant

Takuma Sasahara

Executive Consultant

Naho Kawashima

Executive Consultant

Takeshi Nagakawa

Executive Consultant

Tatsuya Miyazaki

Partner

Koya Muramatsu

Executive Consultant

Shiro Aoshima

Executive Consultant

Sora Harada

Researcher/Consultant

Yusuke Watanabe

Executive Consultant

Takuya Naoi

Consultant

Kazuki Hori

Researcher/Consultant

Mai Hamanishi

Researcher/Consultant

Hiroaki ishigooka

Executive Consultant

Ryosuke Takezawa

Executive Consultant

Hideyuki Higashi

Executive Consultant

Hajime Yagyu

Executive Consultant

Senri Yamamoto

Researcher/Consultant

Daisuke Sekiguchi

Executive Consultant

Kenichi Morita

Executive Consultant

Taisei Nonaka

Researcher/Consultant

Kumiko Kawakami

Consultant

Tetsumasa Umeda

Executive Consultant

Hajime Shimmura

Executive Consultant

Kota Naka

Consultant

Kosuke Umemura

Executive Consultant

Takashi Nakagawa

Executive Consultant

Kei Yoshida

Executive Consultant

Tatsutoshi Yokoji

Executive Consultant

Kenji Edamatsu

Executive Consultant

Yuji Ise

Consultant

Hiroki Kashima

Consultant

Daigoro Fujiwara

Executive Consultant

Satoshi Oka

Executive Consultant

Kenichi Kohata

Executive Consultant

Arihiro Yamamoto

Executive Consultant

Kyoko Takasu

Executive Consultant

Yuna Kawakami

Consultant

Suzuka Masuda

Researcher/Consultant

Kotaro Murakami

Researcher/Consultant

Waka Kitagawa

Researcher/Consultant

Takahisa Oshiro

Executive Consultant

Hideo Yanagida

Senior Advisor

Masaru Kashisako

Director

Kenta Inagaki

Senior Partner

Consultants

Daichi Baba

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyushu University, Mr. Baba worked in corporate finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Prior to joining Kotora, he was in charge of management in the financial education business.

Tatsuya Kaga

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Commerce and Management of Hitotsubashi University, Mr. Kaga joined a major life insurance company. There he was engaged in planning and risk management in the real estate investment area of the investment department. Since joining Kotora, Mr. Kaga has been supporting career changes and recruitment, mainly for high-class professionals, in alternative investment areas such as PE and real estate funds.
Kyotaro Aminaka

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the School of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University, Mr.Aminaka joined Kotora as a new graduate. He has been engaged in consulting work since joining the company, and is currently in the fifth year. In the second year, co-hosted a webinar with a BIG4 partner and served as a facilitator. Currently responsible for the sustainability and ESG sectors, major financial institutions, and consulting firms.

Tetsuo Ueda

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Shiga University, Mr.Ueda joined The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd. (current Mizuho Bank, Ltd.). He worked as a Relationship Manager, and then engaged in the Investment banking business such as corporate turnaround and M&A. He also took managerial role at the branch office and credit supervised department. Before joining Kotora, he was engaged in corporate financing, tie-up sales (mortgage, card loan) and management work at Sony Bank Inc..

Eriko Nakagawa

Executive Consultant

After graduating from university, Ms Nakagawa joined Kotora as a new graduate.
Currently, She is responsible for the asset management, real estate, and financial sectors, mainly supporting career moves to real estate funds, developers, and financial institutions.

Shuya Nozawa

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the School of Commerce at Meiji University, Mr.Nozawa joined a credit card company. After gaining experience in corporate sales, Mr.Nozawa transferred to a department overseeing back-office operations, where he was involved in core system renovations and promoting digital transformation (DX) within the company. Subsequently, he moved to his current position. His main areas of responsibility include the overall financial sector—including the payments industry, primarily at the executive level—as well as consulting firms.

Masashi Yoshizawa

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Education at Waseda University, engaged in apartment sales, advertising, sales strategy planning, and marketing at an up-and-coming real estate company. Then moved to Mitsui Fudosan Building Management Co., Ltd. and got involved in leasing operations for office buildings in Tokyo and overall property management operations for large office buildings (rent revision negotiations, building operation planning and implementation, event planning, guidance of subcontractors, handling of large-scale renovation work, etc.).
Haruki Yoshimi

Executive Consultant

After graduating from university, Mr. Yoshimi joined Chubu Electric Power. There, he was in charge of corporate sales for large customers who receive high-voltage and special high-voltage electricity, and experienced proposing solutions to help customers achieve carbon neutrality. He then joined Kotora.

Taizo Matsubara

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, Mr. Matsubara worked as a resarcher at a think tank. Prior to joining Kotora, he worked for a hedge fund where he was engaged in resarching and analyzing investment projects and structuring financial products.

Sohei Yoshida

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Mr. Yoshida joined a foreign IT consulting firm. There he worked on projects such as a business system renewal project for general trading company before joining Kotora. At Kotora, he is mainly engaged in supporting high-class job change and recruitment, focusing on career changes to/from consultants.

Takuma Sasahara

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the school of Commerce at Waseda University, Mr. Sasahara worked at a regional financial institution in his hometown, where he was engaged in corporate and retail financing, business matching, and consulting sales for corporations. He then joined Kotora.

Naho Kawashima

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, Ms. Kawashima worked for Yokohama City Hall, where she was engaged in national health insurance programs, medical checkup programs, and activities to attract companies. She was also seconded to a private company during her tenure, where she was involved in in-house education on environmental management and exhibition participation. She holds national certification as a career consultant.

Takeshi Nagakawa

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Keio University Faculty of Law, Mr. Nagakawa worked for Aozora Bank, Ltd. for about 7 years. Then he experienced global custody business at BBH Investmentment Service Co. He also worked for Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., where he worked as a relationship manager of an investment advisory and investment trust management company, and worked as a team leader in the operations department for a total of about 17 years. Prior to joining Kotora, he worked at Nikko Asset Management Co.

Tatsuya Miyazaki

Partner

After graduating from Sinshu University Faculty of Engineering, Tatsuya Miyazaki started his career at a construction company as a construction managing engineer. At Mie prefectural office, he worked for the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NEDO. He was engaged in planning and management of industrial policy and took responsibility for new business development and rationalization of regulations and systems related to energy policies.Prior to joining us, he worked for Deloitte Tohmatsu Group as a consultant in the field of regional revitalization and education.

Koya Muramatsu

Executive Consultant

Mr. Muramatsu graduated from the Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University. His areas of expertise include public sector (support for changing jobs from public services to private companies), compliance, and consulting firms.

Shiro Aoshima

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Nagoya University and its graduate school, Mr. Aoshima worked in sales for wealthy individuals at a securities firm and as a career consultant at Recruit Co., Ltd.. He then joined Kotora after working in the M&A industry, and has produced results in supporting job changes for approximately 30 people a year, mainly in M&A-related positions.

Sora Harada

Researcher/Consultant

Mr. Harada joined Kotora after graduating from Shiga University with a degree in Economics. His areas of responsibility include PE funds, venture capital, business company M&A, and general trading companies.

Yusuke Watanabe

Executive Consultant

After graduating from university, Mr.Watanabe joined a non-life insurance company. He gained experience in the corporate division, sales division, and was seconded to a group company before joining Kotora. At Kotora, He mainly focus on the areas of risk management and internal audit.

Takuya Naoi

Consultant

Mr. Naoi joined KDDI after graduating from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University. There he experienced agency sales in the telecommunications business, and then was transferred to a new business subsidiary in the digital field, where he was engaged in the launch of the CS department, corporate planning, and human resource operations such as new graduates and mid-career recruitment. Prior to joining Kotora, he worked for a recruiting agency specializing in the consulting industry.

Kazuki Hori

Researcher/Consultant

Mr. Hori obtained his MBA after graduating from university and then joined Kotora. Currently, he provides career change support in the real estate industry in general, with a focus on real estate funds.

Mai Hamanishi

Researcher/Consultant

Ms. Hamanishi joined Kotora after graduating from the Faculty of International Relations at Kyoto Sangyo University. Her areas of responsibility are investment trust investment advisors and financial institutions, with a focus on the asset management industry.

Hiroaki Ishigooka

Executive Consultant

After graduating from university, Mr. Ishigooka worked at Chiba Kogyo Bank for about seven years. In 2000, he moved to a foreign search firm, where he was primarily in charge of financial institutions. He then changed his job to a general recruitment services company and launched a recruitment business and the financial team. He joined Kotora in 2009 because he sympathized with Kotora's philosophy of “prioritize the candidate's career above all else when we support them”. Currently, he is in charge of a wide range of companies and positions in the financial sector, including investment banks and financial ventures, as well as executive positions such as CXOs.

Ryosuke Takezawa

Executive Consultant

Mr. Takezawa joined The Bank of Yokohama after graduating from Hosei University with a degree in Economics. There, he was engaged in asset management proposal business for individuals and solution proposal business for corporations. He was also engaged in a wide range of work for business corporations, including M&A proposals and business matching proposals, with a focus on financing. He currently supports the careers of candidates who want to develop their skills in the financial field.

Hideyuki Higashi

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Tsukuba, Mr. Higashi joined a regional financial institution and worked at a sales branch for four years. After that, he was temporary transferred to a mega bank for one year, where he focused on developing new corporate clients. After returning from his secondment, he spent nine years in the Human Resources Department, primarily in charge of new graduate and career recruiting.

Hajime Yagyu

Executive Consultant

Before joining Kotora, Hajime Yagyu was engaged in real-estate financing and servicing business at a nonbank bank.He was in charge of launching the assurance business and engaged in the product development, alliances with financial institutions.Hajime has a B.A. of law from Chuo University and he is a qualified ARES Certified Master.

Senri Yamamoto

Researcher/Consultant

Mr. Yamamoto joined Kotora after graduating from Ritsumeikan University with a degree in Industrial Sociology. He is in charge of middle and back office positions, DX, IT, and consulting positions, focusing on the financial industry.

Daisuke Sekiguchi

Executive Consultant

Mr. Sekiguchi worked at a major securities company for 25 years, and was engaged in sales for high-net-worth individuals and medium/small size companies. He experienced asset management and solution sales as well. Before joining Kotora, he was assigned to a department director.

Kenichi Morita

Executive Consultant

Mr. Morita has been working in the human resources industry for 25 years from the early days of the business.He is covering a wide range of industries and occupations as a recruiter, mainly real estate finance, real estate and general contractor.

Taisei Nonaka

Researcher/Consultant

Mr. Nonaka joined Kotora after graduating from Kagawa University with a degree in Law. His primary areas of responsibility are information/cyber security, risk/governance, SIers, financial institutions, and auditing firms.

Kumiko Kawakami

Consultant

After graduating from Kyoto Prefectural University, Ms. Kawakami joined a general education company. Where she worked in the field of education, and then experienced a managerial position. She then moved to the bridal industry, where she worked as a manager. She also worked for a start-up organization providing SDGs promotion support services, before joining Kotora.

Tetsumasa Umeda

Executive Consultant

Tetsumasa has a variety of experiences connected to human resource recruitment through his experiences in a leading real estate fund company Prologis, a major human recruiting company, and a major IT consultant company. He also has much experience at Accenture Human Resources Department where he has bountiful experiences in recruiting over 100 IT personnel and consultants annually. Prior to that, he developed systems for 7 years at a leading life insurance company. Tetsumasa has a B.A. from Gakushuin University, department of law.

Hajime Shimmura

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Tohoku University, he joined a Japanese IT company, where he was engaged in IT sales for the private sector and business development and sales of industry-specific cloud solutions for government agencies. Following that, he worked as a presales consultant at SAP, a foreign ERP company. Prior to his current role, he was a technical sales specialist for cloud services at Microsoft, responsible for clients in government ministries, independent administrative institutions, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.

Kota Naka

Consultant

Mr. Naka graduated from Kobe University. When he was in Unversity, he experienced long-term internships in a wide range of industries, including indivisual and corporate sales and web marketing. After graduation, he joined SHIFT Corporation as an executive candidate and was working as a PMO on a system renewal project for a real estate information site.

Kosuke Umemura

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Keio University Faculty of Letters, Mr. Umemura joined Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd. (at that time, Mitsukoshi Ltd.) and was in charge of grocery sales division, general affairs, human resources and personnel at their stores. Then he was in charge of subsidiary management and business structural reform at the head office. At the time of management integration with Isetan Ltd., he took the lead in unifying their management account. After that, he was assigned to a grocery retail subsidiary, where he was involved in the share transfer to a buyout investment fund. And he was in charge of formulating and executing a medium-term business plan after the establishment of a new company, as a management member of the corporate planning and finance, accounting department.
Takashi Nakagawa

Executive Consultant

After finishing the master's course in Kanazawa University, Mechanical Science and Engineering department of Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology, Mr. Nakagawa started working for a major telecommunications equipment & IT system manufacturing company.Prior to joining Kotora, he was engaged in financial system development for overseas market as a SE.

Kei Yoshida

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Keio University, Mr.Yoshida joined a major Japanese manufacturer. After gaining experience as a manager at an audit-based consulting firm (BIG4), Mr. Yoshida engaged in HR consulting at Japanese consulting firms and major recruitment companies.

Tatsutoshi Yokoji

Executive Consultant

Mr. Yokoji started his own business while still in high school. After graduating from high school, he entered the Faculty of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University, and after completing law school, completed the Graduate School of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University. After graduation, he worked for two foreign companies and two domestic companies in the HR, legal and corporate planning departments, where he was involved in management strategy projects, external joint projects, field-specific projects (HR, genelal affairs, sales, public relations, etc.) , cross-sectoral projects and was engaged in consulting services.

Kenji Edamatsu

Executive Consultant

Kenji's goal as a carrier consultant is to provide "company growth through recruitment." He has abundant knowledge of management through his numerous investment experiences with the venture capital business. To name a few, they would be venture capital businesses with such companies such as Softbank and C. Itoh & Co. He was the executive secretary to the chairman upon LTCB's (currently Shinsei Bank) bankruptcy. Kenji was responsible for loaning and screening towards large and medium sized enterprises. B.A. graduate of Tohoku University Department of Economics.

Yuji Ise

Consultant

Mr. Ise joined a real estate investment company after graduating from Hosei University with a degree in economics. Prior to joining Kotora, he worked for a staffing agency specializing in administrative departments and professional services (lawyers, certified public accountants, and tax accountants).

Hiroki Kashima

Consultant

After graduating from the school of Law at Waseda University, Mr. Kashima joined a major bank. There he was involved in proposal work and management, including asset management and business succession. Prior to joining Kotora, he was in charge of credit supervising.

Daigoro Fujiwara

Executive Consultant

Graduated from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. After graduation, Mr.Fujiwara gained experience in logistics operations and new business development at a consumer electronics manufacturer, a foreign securities firm, and an IT company. Subsequently he worked in corporate sales at a major non-life insurance company. Currently responsible for the financial sector (including insurance and securities), risk-related matters, and business development.

Satoshi Oka

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the law faculty of Hokkaido University, Satoshi Oka has 27 years working experience as a manager of sales, business development and corporate strategy teams in Sumitomo Corporation, a global trade and investment company. His industry expertise comprises food supply chain, retail and life science in Asia and Europe. He has hands-on experience with both the operational and administrative sides of the business. Then he had the opportunity to leverage his experience and management skills in managing several foreign capital companies in Japan. He decided to join KOTORA team as he believes that human resources are indispensable for the success of any business, large or small.

Kenichi Kohata

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Seijo University, Mr. Kohata started working for a major staffing agency on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. There he was engaged in recruiting business in the IT industry.

Arihiro Yamamoto

Executive Consultant

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Kansai University, Mr. Yamamoto worked for a major Japanese SI vendor and a foreign software vendor as a sales department head responsible for many enterprise businesses. Prior to joining Kotora, he was involved in developing human resources development strategies and providing training programs at a human resources development consulting firm specializing in executives and managers.

Kyoko Takasu

Executive Consultant

Ms. Takasu joined CBRE in 2013 after graduating from the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University. There, she was assigned to the Asset Management Department, which led her to work for three AM firms before moving to a recruitment agency. In the AM industry, she had a wide range of experience including acquisition, in-term management, and disposition operations, and handled a wide variety of asset types, including hotels, residential, office, and logistics.

Yuna Kawakami

Consultant

After graduating from university, Ms. Kawakami joined a municipal government in Tokyo. She worked in both the citizen services counter and the Information Systems Department. This experience allowed her to gain insights into both the front-line delivery of resident services and system operations, enabling her to support the Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives of the local government.

Suzuka Masuda

Researcher/Consultant

After graduating from Meiji University's School of Information and Communication, Suzuka joined KOTORA as a new graduate. She specializes in recruiting for financial institutions, major system integrators (SIer), and Fintech companies.

Kotaro Murakami

Researcher/Consultant

Graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University. He focuses on the asset management industry, covering investment advisory firms and financial institutions.

Waka Kitagawa

Researcher/Consultant

Graduated from the Faculty of Informatics at Kansai University. Ms. Kitagawa began her career at a consulting firm specializing in project management, where she gained extensive experience in PMO roles. She subsequently joined KOTORA Co., Ltd.

Takahisa Oshiro

Executive Consultant

After graduating from Hokkaido University, he joined a major life insurance company, and was engaged in sales planning and sales management. He then joined Kotra as a career consultant, mainly in the real estate finance area.

Hideo Yanagida

Senior Advisor

Hideo Yanagida is the most experienced consultant who worked extensively in Japan's financial markets. Prior to joining KOTORA in 2004, Hideo worked as a money dealer, an ALM hedge operator, and a restructuring advisor at SMBC. In his career at SMBC, he was seconded to Sakura Asset Management (SAM) and worked as a portfolio manager. Hideo has a BA in India-Pakistan Linguistics from Osaka University of Foreign Studies (currently Osaka University) .

Masasru Kashisako

Director

Masaru Kashisako is an expert in recruiting for Investment Banks, Venture Capitals, and Buy-out-funds. Prior to joining KOTORA, he had been a financial analyst at QRB for 12 years. Before QRB, Masaru worked for The Sumitomo Trust and Banking as a financial analyst and a retail sales person at one of its branches. Prior to that, he had worked at Yamaichi Securities.Masaru has a BA in Law from Waseda University.

Kenta Inagaki

Senior Partner

Kenta Inagaki recruits financial professionals such as investment bankers, real estate financers, leasing specialists, and accountants. He joined KOTORA in 2007. Prior to that, Kenta worked at SMBC, being responsible for business development for the bank's core institutional customers. He was involved in securitizations, M&As and debt restructurings after spending several years covering the SME sector in domestic branches. Kenta is a graduate of Waseda University with a BA in Commerce.