Kiyoshi Okubo

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Mr. Kiyoshi Okubo serves as Chief Operating Officer at QD Laser. Mr. Okubo served as Co-Managing Partner at E12 Venture Capital. Mr. Okubo served as Chief Executive Officer and President at Mitsui Global Investment. He joined MGI in June 2020. Since 2001, he has been working on venture investments at the corporation first at the venture investment arm of Mitsui & Co, Ltd. (former organization of MGI) where he actively invested in advanced hardware manufacturers, creating spinoffs from IT enterprises, and where he was dedicated to the strategic planning of CVC initiatives of Mitsui & Co. After 2011, he was assigned to several key roles in the Financial & New Business Unit (former organization of Corporate Development BU in which MGI belongs) of Mitsui & Co., including the dept. GM in a leasing Company of Mitsui & Co group, the dept. GM of the Financial & New Business Dept. in Mitsui & Co. Asia Pacific and the dept. GM of Asset Management Business Dept. of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Through this experience, he has acquired a broad range of knowledge and expertise about the financial businesses operated by Mitsui & Co. and will utilize them to activate MGI further as the CVC of Mitsui & Co, Ltd. He holds a master's degree in engineering and is an architect from Nagoya University.