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Our senior leadership team unites to tackle sustainability and circular-economy opportunities, leveraging experience from the finance and technology sectors, as well as the UN and World Bank. Our expertise is particularly strong in Asia, with networks spanning Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

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Since we started, we’ve built a firm with a group of equally diverse talent. What we intend to do with that knowledge is to turn challenges, such as the climate crisis, into opportunities, by practising a new way to invest.
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We founded SDG Impact to create, invest in, and achieve radical change. All of our investments, all of our energy, are guided by our vision to create a sustainable future for people and the planet

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SDG Impact Japan Inc.
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Mamoru Taniya
Chairperson

Mamo has been a catalyst for financial innovation in Japan and beyond, and has been an angel investor for over 20 years, and built and scaled listed companies including LIfenet. He also founded the first UWC school in Japan, and serves as vice-chairman of Human Rights Watch Japan.

Mari Kogiso
Co-CEO

Mari is globally recognized leader in sustainable finance, and established the Asia Women Impact Fund, the first gender lens investment fund in Japan.

Bradley Busetto
Co-CEO

Bradley has helped drive sustainable investment for the United Nations, serving as the inaugural director of UNDP Global Centre on Tech, Innovation and Sustainability.

Yuko Oka
Chief Marketing Officer

Yuko has led institutional sales of Japanese equities at Jardine Fleming Securities (now JP Morgan Securities), Morgan Stanley Securities, and Deutsche Securities.

Sasja Beslik
Chief Investment Strategy Officer

Sasja has played a key role in the rise of ESG investing around the world, and has for years produced ESG-driven financial results, including with Nordea.

Shohei Maekawa
Chief Strategy Officer

Formerly with BCG, Shohei has long experience in management and strategy consulting, including corporate restructuring and post-merger integration.

Steve Leonard
Steve Leonard
Managing Partner

Steve was the Founder CEO of SGInnovate, a Singaporean government agency where he invested in deep tech startups and formed a startup community.

Wataru Baba
Wataru Baba
Managing Partner

Senior Fellow, Climate and Sustainability at Panasonic Group since 2022, where he accelerated the company’s growth through an integrated strategy for creating positive impact on climate change and established Sustainability Committee, chaired by the Group CEO. Board Member of Japan Professional Football League (J.League) and Independent Director for a civic technology nonprofit, Code for Japan, and a web3 startup, Financie, Inc

 

Masashi Yamashita
Board Member

Masahi has 38 years of experience in the financial industry, and served as CEO of Lawson Bank.

Mikio Yamaguchi
COO

Mikio worked in management consulting, then became COO of Pocket Marche, the ground-breaking company that links small farmers to consumers.

Daichi Hirose
Partner

Extensive experience in microfinance, leasing, and microinsurance, and new business development and M&A

Nagayuki Kurita
Senior Partner

Nagayuki has extensive experience in climate change, project development related to emissions trading, survey research and advisory services.

Makiko Horie
Director

Distinguished career in portfolio management, equity research and management consulting

Makiko Fujimura
Director

Makiko has excelled at Institutional sales for or Blackrock Japan and JP Morgan, and won the APAC institutional sales person of the year award in 2020.

Osamu Yamamoto
Board Member

Osamu is the founder and CEO of Unison Capital, a pioneering private equity firm in Japan. He also serves as a board member of the Pacific Pension Institute.

Tadashi Maeda
Board Member

Tadashi is Chairman of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (since 2022), and also serves as the Chief Representative of the Trade Finance Subcommittee for the OECD.

Nobuo Tanaka

Nobuo previously served as executive director of the International Energy Agency, and is recognised as an expert on renewable energy and the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Mats Andersson

Mats served as CEO of the leading pension fund AP4 for 10 years, radically decarbonizing the equity portfolio. He is also a senior advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation, the German Nuclear Decommissioning, and Tobacco Free Portfolios.

Noriyuki Yanagawa

Noriyuki is Professor of economics at Tokyo University (since 2011), and a member of the Corporate Governance System Study Group, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Maya Hari

Maya is a global leader and C-suite executive in high growth digital and technology companies, including Twitter. She’s the CEO of Terrascope, helping large enterprises on their Net Zero decarbonization journey.

Yoshiki Ishikawa

Yoshiki co-founded Campus for H, Inc, a corporate wellness and productivity company. Currently he serves as Director of Innovation at Cancer Scan, Inc.