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EVENT DETAILS |
Thursday, December 8, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Room 680, Kravis Hall, Columbia Business School (Map)
(665 West 130th Street, New York, NY 10027)
Featuring:
Oki Matsumoto
Chairman of the Board & CEO, Monex Group
Moderator:
Alicia Ogawa
Project Director for Japanese Corporate Governance & Stewardship, Center on Japanese Economy & Business, Columbia Business School
What you will learn:
One stereotype of Japanese companies & executives is that they are risk-averse. Mr. Matsumoto is one example of a business leader that challenges this perception. He began his career by taking a big risk: rather than joining a Japanese ministry or a large, established Japanese company, he took a job at a foreign investment bank. After becoming the youngest partner at Goldman Sachs, he left just before the IPO of Goldman Sachs & gave up those benefits in order to establish Japan's first internet brokerage, Monex. Monex has taken a number of counter-intuitive investments, such as acquiring Coincheck, a crypto asset trading service, soon after it had been the victim of a $530mn hack. Mr. Matsumoto will discuss his approach to managing the risks of a global business built on technological disruption in an era of increasing geopolitical & market instability-and whether Japan deserves its reputation as a risk-averse culture.
About the speaker:
Oki Matsumoto was born in 1963 & received a BA in Law from the University of Tokyo (1987). He began his career at Salomon Brothers & joined Goldman Sachs in 1990, & became General Partner in 1994 at the age of 30, the youngest ever at that time. He took charge of trading, risk management, & capital markets businesses in Asia, & also founded the special situations unit at Goldman Sachs. In 1999, he founded Monex, which was jointly capitalized with Sony. Monex is listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange where he is presently Chairman & CEO.
Monex Group has grown to become a major online financial institution that operates online retail brokerages in Japan, the U.S., China (including Hong Kong), & Australia. In addition, with the acquisition of Coincheck in April 2018, the crypto-asset business became one of the core pillars of the business segments. In January 2020, Monex established Japan Catalyst, an investment advisory arm, to pursue investment returns through proposals to & engagement with listed Japanese companies to stimulate Japanese capital markets.
He served as Financial Counsel to the Prime Minister & also as an outside director of several companies, including the Tokyo Stock Exchange from June 2008 to 2013. He presently is an outside director of Mastercard, Incorporated & also a Vice Chair of Human Rights Watch.
Admission & Contact:
You must register to attend this in-person event.
If you have questions about the event, please contact us at cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.
Special Notes:
This in-person-only event is open to the public & will not be live streamed. The event recording will be available on our website at a later date.
Please be advised that this event may be photographed, so your image may appear on our website or in CJEB materials later. If this is an issue, please let us know.
Please note that due to current University guidelines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all visitors must have their primary series of COVID-19 vaccination & be prepared to show proof if asked.
For more information about other CJEB events, visit our website or contact cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.
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