Toshiaki Oguchi is Executive Director of GO Japan. He has more than 20 years business experience in Japan, the U.S. and the U.K and has extensive skills and experience in both corporate governance matters and institutional relations. He has held a number of different roles over that period, mostly in corporate planning and product development for Nippon Life and Nissay Asset Management Corporation. From 2002 to 2003, he was seconded to Hermes Pensions Management in the UK to take the role of Manager, Corporate Governance, Asia-Pacific, in which role he was also exposed to international corporate governance approaches. At Nissay Asset Management, he was a member of the corporate governance committee and the decision-making group of its Japanese corporate governance fund and was also responsible for marketing NAM’s products to non-Japanese institutional investors. Toshiaki is a member of several corporate governance networking groups in Japan and internationally and an active participant in the governance debate.

Kenji Iwamoto is Director of Engagement Japan. He joined GO Japan in February 2011, responsible for developing engagement approaches at GO Japan (including the Japan Engagement Consortium) and the JEF. Kenji has over 18 years of experience in corporate finance and has had extensive interactions with senior management of Japanese companies to enhance shareholder value. From 2007 to 2010, he was a Director at Taiyo Pacific Partners, LP in Monterey, California, responsible for engagement strategy as well as investment management for the Japan-focused Taiyo Fund. Before Taiyo, he was at Mizuho Corporate Bank in New York, focusing on credit analysis and investment management of US investment grade companies. Prior to working in USA, he was a financial advisor involved in major M&As in Japan at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo. He started his career at The Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ, now Mizuho Financial Group), where he worked on sovereign debt rescheduling negotiations and corporate banking.

Yoshikazu Maeda joined GO Japan in October 2009 as an investment and governance analyst. Prior to joining GO, Yoshikazu was an Associate at Goldman Sachs working in the banking sector. He also worked at the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo, where he participated in a two year overseas government-sponsored study programme which included gaining a distinction in his MSc in Finance at the London Business School. He is a lawyer by training.