Mr. Nobu Kumagai

• Senior Venture Partner

  JAIC Ventures Advanced-Technology Group

• Vice President

  HSBC Global Investment Banking Division

• Partner, Chief Financial Officer

  Bridgena, Inc.

• Associate

  Lehman Brothers Inc.

• Institutional Equity Sales and Trading

  KOKUSAI Securities (Currently Mitsubishi-UFJ Securities)

• Board Observer

  Virtus Advanced Sensors

• Board Director

  Ecrio Inc.

• N and A

  Liberal Table

No certification information is available.

• M.B.A., Entrepreneurship Finance

  Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

• B.A., Economics

  Keio University

Mr. Kumagai is currently a Senior Venture Partner for JAIC, the largest independent venture capital and private equity group in Japan, for its Advanced-Technology Venture Group primarily focused on both U.S., Japanese and Chinese venture and growth capital opportunities. Focuses in mobile and wireless platform technologies, semiconductors, MEMS as well as game industry. Based in both Palo Alto, U.S. and Tokyo, JAPAN. Previously spent a decade in the investment banking industry.Also a co-founding member for a Silicon-Valley and Tokyo based strategy consulting practice orchestrating alliance and strategic initiatives between Silicon-valley startups and blue-chip Japanese corporations in the US, Japan & Greater China. Specialties:Business development for early-stage start-ups mainly orchestrating alliance and strategic initiatives between U.S. and Japan and throughout other Asia Pacific region. A 'going-public' in-depth preparations orchestrating corporate operations and CFO related responsibilities. Corporate financing initiatives utilizing equity, structured equity products and debt instruments for both public and private companies.

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