Taisuke Matsumoto

Deutsche Asset Management (Japan) Ltd. (DeAM-JP) is the Japanese fund management branch of Deutsche Asia Pacific Holdings Pte Ltd., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) in Germany. Established in 1985, the firm is located in Tokyo and provides a full range of asset management products and fund management services for individual and institutional investors including public and private pension funds. The Tokyo team manages domestic and overseas public and private pension funds for institutional clients, outsources the management of other funds and distributes a range of mutual funds for retail investors. They are a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors (Japan’s Stewardship Code) which seeks to promote sustainable growth of companies through investment and dialogue.

Nissay Asset Management Corp. (NAM) is the asset management subsidiary of Nippon Life Insurance Co. in Japan. The firm was founded in 1998 when Nissay Investment Advisors Co., Ltd. and Nissay Investment Trust Management Co., Ltd. merged. Headquartered in Tokyo with a branch office in Osaka, NAM provides investment advisory services to individual clients, customers of defined contribution plans, investment trusts for business and financial corporations, and group pensions.

Orb, Inc. operates as a bitcoin technology which provides global payment network services. Its payment network enables users to transfer any currency on any device as VISA does. The firm’s systems that helps protect users site/s from people who share logins with others. The company was founded by Jon Keating, Masa Nakatsu and Tadatoshi Senoo in February 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

SoundFun, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture and sale of speakers and amplifiers. The company was founded by Kazunori Sato on October 7, 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

ROXX, Inc. operates as a holding company which provides online platform services to search residential homes. The company was founded on November 1, 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Trustbank, Inc. engages in media and training business. It handles the operation and management of the following sites: Furusato Choice, an online site for municipality tax payment and Meibutsu Choice, a mail-order site where local government points can be used. It also operates Furusato Choice Storage Service, chiica, and Enecho. The company was founded by Tamayo Sunaga on April 2, 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Comix, Inc. provides digital marketing services. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. and has subsidiaries in Japan. The Japanese company was founded in 2007 by Akihiro Suzuki. Akihiro Suzuki has been the CEO since 2007.

Part of KDDI Corp., Digital Growth Academia, Inc. is a Japanese human resource development company specializing in DX. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company provides one-stop support for the development of DX human resources, including planning and introduction consulting, training, and e-learning. The company offers abundant training, from lectures related to DX and business trends to training to utilize data and promote the understanding of AI and IoT. The company has trained tens of thousands of people from major companies to local governments every year and received high praise for their DX human resource education plan and system formulation, and DX human resource development consulting.