Hajime Sato

Former investment banker at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley Former Head of TMT, Managing Director / Japan Country Head at Credit Suisse; Managing Director, Head of Industrials at Morgan Stanley Expertise in M&A, strategic investments, capital policy, and financing across technology, energy, and industrial sectors Track record highlights: Kioxia IPO (2024)　 Sale of Shinko Electric Industries to Japan Investment Corporation (2023) sale of JSR Corporation to JIC (2023) Kubota Corporation investment in Escorts Limited (2022) Sale of NEC Corporation battery business to Envision Group (2019) Bain / SK hynix consortium acquisition of Toshiba Memory (2017) NTT DATA acquisition of Perot Systems (2016)