Members of Value Create have in-depth Industry experience in numerous areas including from Internet to Mafufacturing.
The team members have held various roles and responsibilities within the Industry.
The team members have held various roles and responsibilities within the Industry.
Akira C. Sato (Tokyo)
Chako Ando (Silicon Valley)
Yukiko Yoshimura (London)
Toshiyuki Abe (Bangkok)Akira C. Sato
| Country / City | JAPAN / Tokyo |
| Company | Value Create |
| Service | Industry and corporate research in Japan |
| Profile | Sato has over 20 years of investment research experience as industry and corporate analyst. Sato is founder and managing partner at Value Create, Inc. Earlier Sato was head of capital goods team at Financial Research Center, Nomura Securities, Senior MD, Chief Analyst and Head of Research at IT research house. Sato was ranked No1 for overall sectors in 1995 (i.e. The Analyst of the Year) at Nikkei Analyst Ranking and ranked No1 as Shipbuilding & plant engineering sector analyst for more than 6 consecutive years at Nikkei and Institutional Investors Magazine. |
Chako Ando
| Country / City | U.S.A /Silicon Valley |
| Company | Cando Advisors |
| Service | Business development, strategy and market research in Silicon Valley |
| Profile | Ms. Ando has over 25years of consulting, startup, investment banking and capital markets experience. Since 2002, Ms. Ando advised both U.S. and Japanese companies on their funding, alliance and go-to-market strategies. Ms. Ando was the Chief Operating Officer of Fitech Laboratories, cross-borer software startup based in San Francisco and Tokyo. Earlier, she was a VP in the M&A department of Daiwa America; manager of a venture capital investment fund for the Industrial Bank of Japan; and a VP of credit control with Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets. |
Yukiko Yoshimura
| Country / City | England / London |
| Service | Financial valuation for corporate turnaround specialists and evaluation of M&A targets. |
| Profile | Yukiko has extensive business experience including 5 years at a senior managerial level in Nomura Securites, NETPRICE and Cyber Agent, which have strengthened her financial and strategic outlook. Yukiko holds an MBA (with distinction) from Manchester Business School (U.K.), which is ranked by the Financial Times as one of the leading business schools in the world. Since completing her MBA, Yukiko has been based in the U.K. and has been working on a wide range of consultancy based projects such as market analysis, financial valuation for corporate turnaround specialists and evaluation of M&A targets. Yukiko is also involved in business and finance translations between Japanese and English. |
Toshiyuki Abe
| Country / City | Thailand / Bangkok |
| Company | ASEAN JAPAN Consulting Co.,Ltd. |
| Service | Marketing consultant, Investor in Thailand, Researcher in Thai market |
| Profile | Experienced working in Thai for 4 years Sales and marketing department of luxury Car "LEXUS" Speaking Japanese, English,Thai, a little Chinese. Analysis Thai market, explain about Thai stock information in Japanese, Consulting Thai business, Business matching Thai and Japanese companies. |
