Alex Haro is the cofounder and CEO of Hubble Network. Hubble is building a global satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled device can connect to, even without cellular reception. Hubble’s mission is to get a billion devices connected to the network and unlock a new era of human-machine collaboration. Prior to cofounding Hubble, Mr. Haro was the co-founder and CTO of Life360, a market leading app for families, with features that range from communications to driving safety and location sharing. Life360 is based in San Francisco and has over 40 million monthly active users (MAU). In 2015, Mr. Haro was recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology. Prior to Life360, he worked on Orbited. Mr. Haro studied Computer Science at Pomona College / Harvey Mudd.

Fred joined Carilion Clinic, a Virginia-based healthcare system, in 2015 to lead its investment function, overseeing $3 billion across operating capital and defined benefit pension assets. Previously, he worked at Huntington Ingalls Industries with oversight responsibility for hedge fund and fixed income pension investments and as a generalist at The Pension Boards-United Church of Christ. Prior to moving to the plan sponsor side of investment management, he held different roles at Cohen & Steers and Lord Abbett. He has a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Denison University and is a CFA charterholder.

Heads Japan Post Bank’s $30B private equity investment program and has been responsible for all aspects of its creation and construction. Prior to joining Japan Post Bank in January 2016, worked at Nippon Life Insurance Company, where he established and lead Nippon Life’s private equity operations in the US, and was also Head of Product Development at Nissay Asset Management Co. the asset management subsidiary of Nippon Life. He has a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Tokyo, LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, has passed the New York Bar Exam and also is a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan.

Hiroshi OZEKI is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Nissay Asset Management Corporation.He joined Nippon Life Insurance Company after graduation from the University of Tokyo in 1987 and has held various roles in loan portfolio management, risk management, corporate strategies, hybrid capital finance, investor relations, ALM, and Asset Allocation of the Life Insurance General Account. Most recently, he has held an executive management role in New York as Regional CEO for the Americas and Europe of Nippon Life.Mr. OZEKI obtained a B.A. in Physics from the University of Tokyo and an A.M.P. from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan and a Member of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

Jason Lemkin started the world’s largest community for SaaS/B2B founders, SaaStr.com, and the world’s largest gathering for them, SaaStr Annual | The Biggest SaaS Event on the Planet.

In addition to doing his best to help run SaaStr, he is a hyper-founder centric VC with $90m to invest in the top SaaS founders. He’s been the first or very early investor in many leading enterprise/SaaS start-ups, including Algolia, Automile, Talkdesk, Parklet, Greenhouse, Mixmax, Pipedrive, Rainforest QA, Logikcull, SalesLoft, Teamable, Gorgias, Mapistry, and more.

Jason has co-founded two successful start-ups selling to the enterprise. Most recently, he served as CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, the web’s most popular electronic signature service, from inception through its acquisition by Adobe Systems Inc.

He then served as Vice President, Web Services at Adobe, where he oversaw the growth of EchoSign and Adobe Document Services to $50,000,000 in ARR in 2012 and $100,000,000+ ARR in 2013.

Prior to EchoSign and Adobe, he co-founded one of the only successes in nanotechnology, NanoGram Devices, which was acquired for $50m just 13 months after founding. The technology, built into implantable power cells, has gone on to help extend the lives of thousands.

She is General Manager and Head of Foreign Equity & Alternative Investment Department of Nissay Asset Management since April, 2022. She is responsible for a wide range of alternative investment for Nippon Life. She started her career with Nippon life since 1996, and she has been responsible for alternative fields including ramping up Nippon Life’s global private equity fund investment program since 2003.Prior to her current role, she led the manager selection including private equity and infrastructure investment both for Nippon Life and third party clients. In most recent role, she has focused on introducing and starting impact investment programs.

Ken joined GB in 2021. As General Partner, he oversees the entire fund activities including strategy development, investment in Japanese and overseas startups, post-investment support, support for collaboration with corporations, fundraising, and forming/operating CVC funds. He is an expert in growth strategy and digital transformation based on his 17-year experience of strategic consulting. He also focuses on overseas fund deployment and investment.

Ken joined GB after working at NTT Group and McKinsey & Company. Ken was engaged in more than 270 projects with 1,500 consultants across 10 regions worldwide at McKinsey & Company. From 2011, Ken was the leader of technology, media & telecommunications group (TMT) at McKinsey Japan office. Ken has been passionate about driving technology-enabled business transformation that significantly increases competitive advantage of global TMT companies in Japan and overseas. Projects included company-wide transformation, growth strategy development, M&A/PMI, business portfolio restructuring, acceleration of new businesses/business growth, and establishment of global business. Prior to McKinsey, Ken joined NTT's R&D center as a software engineer / researcher, and later on became founding member of launching NTT Group's US office to start overseas operations.

Ken has lived and worked in 3 continents including Europe (Switzerland), US (NY, MA, and CA) and Japan (Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Yamaguchi). He enjoys playing soccer/tennis and running. Along with traveling, he has relocated more than 30 times so far.

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Prabhu is a veteran of the investment industry who brings over 23 years of investment experience with global investment leaders including Barclays Global Investors, Franklin Templeton Investments, and Mellon Capital Management.  He was Managing Director and Senior Investment Strategist at Mellon Capital Management where he helped build the firm’s quantitative equity capabilities.  Previously he was an SVP and Portfolio Manager at Franklin Templeton Investment managing structured equity portfolios. He has also held fixed income portfolio management positions at BGI and NetWest Bank.  He is also a former Trustee of the Federated City Employees Retirement System where he served on the Investment Committee for 6 months. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose and a volunteer with the City of Fremont Police Department.

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Driven by the ambition to create Japan's first early-stage, hands-on venture capital firm, I founded Globis Capital Partners.

After witnessing entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the internet leading significant societal changes and innovations, I returned to Japan. At that time, both entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were minorities and outsiders in society. Initially, we were isolated and unsupported, but we gradually built connections and helped shape the creation of transformative entrepreneurs and the venture capital industry.

Despite numerous challenges, such as the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the development of the startup ecosystem has provided a foundation for systematic entrepreneurship and innovation in Japan. I believe that further fostering this development is my true calling.

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Subrata Mitra joined Accel in 2008. Subrata is an entrepreneur turned VC, and joined Accel when Erasmic Venture Fund (a firm that he co-founded) rebranded to become part of Accel. Subrata was the first investor in CasaOne, Curefit, Flipkart (substantially acquired by Walmart), Juspay, Moglix, Money View, Mu-Sigma, Myntra (acquired by Flipkart), Scripbox, Virident (acquired by Western Digital), WIBMO (acquired by PayU), and several other category leaders.Prior to Erasmic, Subrata was the Managing Director of India operations for Tavant Technologies, Inc. Tavant was acquired by a U.S.-based mortgage solutions company in 2004. Previously, Subrata was the founder of Firewhite, Inc., which was acquired by Ubiquio, Inc., and later merged into Mobile Planet.Subrata studied Computer Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and subsequently received his M.S. from UDel, and Ph.D. from Urbana.

Tom Shinner is Chief Operating Officer of Entrepreneur First (www.joinef.com), which brings together extraordinary people to found technology startups in Bangalore, Berlin, Paris, London and North America.EF has helped more than 3,000 people build more than 600 companies currently worth more than $10 billion. Before EF, Tom spent seven years in the UK Civil Service, serving on the main board of two departments – as Director of Strategy at the Department for Education, and as the director at DExEUcoordinating the UK’s domestic policy and technical implementation of Brexit across government. Tom started his career at McKinsey & Company, serving in the London and Middle East offices, and in 2010 he co-founded a thriving Free School in South London.

Yuka Hata is a Managing Director and heads Fund Investment Team at Japan Investment Corporation (“JIC”).

Ms. Hata joined JIC in July 2020 in order to build and support Japan’ private equity / venture capital ecosystem as well as to provide the risk capital with the investment funds which bring Japan’s industry to the next stage. Prior to joining JIC, as a co-head of private equity, Ms. Hata worked for Nissay Asset Management where she was mainly responsible for European small-mid buyout, GP stake investments, secondary and Japan’s VC funds. She also worked for Nomura Asset Management (or Nomura Private Equity Capital) and managed fund of funds focused on Asia market as a member of Investment Committee.

Ms. Hata is a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan., and received a B.A. in Environmental Information from Keio University and an M.B.A. from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales-HEC in Paris.

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