In 2014, Kazunori led the launch of the ESG consulting business at an ESG research institute in Japan. Since then, for over 10 years, he has supported many companies, including listed and unlisted companies, investors, and universities, in building their ESG strategies as an expert in quantitative analysis using ESG data and ESG/sustainability, including supporting ESG activities of the world’s leading asset owners. He has given numerous lectures at government agencies, financial institutions, various industry associations, and universities. B.S. (’90) and M.S. (’92) in Management Engineering from Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: children’s rights, water, impact investing
Former Executive Officer and CEO of the Natural Gas Group of Mitsubishi Corporation, Jun spent many years in the energy business, especially in the development and operation of LNG projects. As a core member of the Mitsubishi Corporation EX (Energy Transition) Committee, he led the next generation energy business and carbon credit business. He was the first Leaders Council member of Breakthrough Energy Catalyst. He has served as a member of the Resources and Fuels Subcommittee of the Energy Agency, a board member of the Petroleum and Mining Industry Federation, and a member of the JOGMEC Security Advisory Committee. He is a visiting researcher at The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan.
アドバイザー
西澤 淳
Jun Nishizawa
三菱商事顧問
元三菱商事常務執行役員・天然ガスグループCEO。エネルギービジネス(特にLNG事業の開発・操業)に長年従事。三菱商事EX(Energy Transition)委員会の中心メンバーとして次世代エネルギー事業やカーボンクレジット事業を牽引。 Breakthrough Energy Catalystの初代Leaders Councilメンバー。エネ庁資源・燃料分科会委員、石油鉱業連盟理事、JOGMECセキュリティーアドバイザリー委員などを歴任。日本エネルギー経済研究所客員研究員。
After engaging in individual sales at Nomura Securities, Mako worked at Recruit Marketing Partners (now Recruit Holdings), where she gained a wide range of experience in HR/organizational development, including HR planning, labor relations, organizational revitalization, and work style reform. Later, she led the development of back office structure and preparing for IPO at a domestic start-up from seed to IPO preparation stage, and joined GLIN in 2024.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: Well-being, healthcare, climate change/nature loss
Associate
Yusuke Umezawa
Yusuke worked at the government office where he was engaged in project development and analysis of environmental policies. He led assessment of environmental pollution control and environmental impact assessment as well as industrial waste management policies and DX promotion. He joined GLIN in 2024.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: climate change countermeasures, circular economy.
Yosuke worked at EY Japan where he engaged in HR and organizational consulting to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Subsequently, at Accenture’s Health and Public Service team, he worked on policy recommendations for ESG investment for G20 countries. To deepen his knowledge in impact and ESG investment, Yosuke studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management and joined GLIN in 2021.
Expertise: Impact/ESG investment, value creation including formulation of sustainability strategy.
EY JapanにてDE&I推進を主眼においた人事・組織コンサルティングチームの立ち上げ、プロジェクト推進に従事。その後、アクセンチュア医療・公共サービスチームにて、G20諸国へのESG投資の政策提言などに従事。インパクト/ESG投資の知見を深めるべくマサチューセッツ工科大学(MIT)経営大学院に留学、2021年GLINに参画。
Masato worked at Mitsubishi Corporation, developing new businesses in the AI/IoT New Business Development team and exploring investments in high-growth startups. At Harvard Business School, he served as President of the Impact Investment Club and collaborated with the Acumen Fund. In 2020, he founded GLIN.
Japan Impact-driven Financing Initiative, Steering Committee Member, Overseas Collaboration Planning
Member, Impact IPO Working Group, GSG National Advisory Committee
Co-Chairs, Global Advisory Panel Planning Committee, FSA Impact Consortium
Global Impact Investing Network(GIIN) VC Knowledge Hub Advisory Committee
MBA Impact Investing Network & Training Alumni Council Subcommittee
Expertise: Impact/ESG investment, evaluation, and value creation.
Impact/ESG themes: Exploring the intersection between economy and society, addressing income inequality, and environmental concerns.
Global Impact Investing Network(GIIN) VC Knowledge Hub Advisory Committee
MBA Impact Investing Network & Training Alumni Council Subcommittee
GLINでの担当領域:インパクト/ESG投資・評価および企業価値向上
関心の強いインパクト/ESGテーマ:経済と社会のより良いあり方の追求、格差、地球環境
投資チーム マネージャー
(経済産業省出向中)
川島 令
Ryo Kawashima
日興アセットマネジメントで中小型株アナリスト(IPO含む)およびファンドマネージャー(L/O・L/S戦略)。Wharton Schoolインパクト投資プログラムMIINT修了。欧州起業プログラムや米Techスタートアップ共同創業を経験。IE Business School MBA(IE Fellow)。日本証券アナリスト協会認定アナリスト。
Ryo has worked as a small and mid-cap equity analyst and fund manager (L/O&L/S) for Nikko Asset Management. He completed MIINT, the Wharton School’s Impact Investing Program, and co-founded a US Tech start-up. He obtained his MBA at IE Business School with honors as an IE Foundation Fellow. He is an accredited analyst with the SAAJ.
Areas of expertise: Impact investing, consulting.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: Closing the wealth gap, Education, Well-being, Quantification of non-financial values, Corporate value-up.
EY Japanにてサステナビリティコンサルティング事業立ち上げ、人権方針策定や人権デューデリジェンス、持続可能な調達の初動に貢献、多くの企業を支援。2021年よりSpiber Inc.のサステナビリティと長期戦略を担う。サステナビリティの専門家として国連機関、NGO、官公庁での講師を多数経験。2023年にGLINに参画。
Miharu graduated from the Sociology Department of Tokyo University, as a recipient of the Best Thesis Award (Krone Prize), for her research on the social participation of women university graduates. Later, she joined Circulation Co., Ltd. where she spearheaded diverse consulting projects encompassing new business development, recruitment, and marketing for BtoC enterprises. She led company-wide Public Relations since six months before the company’s listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market. Miharu joined GLIN in 2024.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: DE&I, Health Disparities/Wage Gaps, Elimination of external diseconomies, Value creation
Director
Ulysses Aoki
Ulysses worked at EY Japan where he helped build the sustainability team, serving as a catalyst to grow the sustainability market in Japan. He joined Spiber Inc. in 2021 as the head of long-term strategy. As a sustainability professional, he strives to promote business and human rights and sustainable supply chain agendas. He joined GLIN in 2023.
Expertise: Value creation, sustainability strategy, human rights.
Impact/ESG themes: Human rights, well-being, value chain impacts.
Manager
Hanna Otani
After completing her master’s at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Hanna joined the Nippon Foundation where she managed projects in education, upskilling, and peace building in Southeast Asia. She later joined McKinsey where she created and implemented long-term strategy for value creation and DE&I in consumer, retail, life science companies and the public sector. Hanna joined GLIN in 2023.
Areas of expertise: sustainability strategy & development.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: Education, DE&I, wellbeing.
Manager
Yuki Nakao
After completing her master’s degree at the Graduate School of Public Policy at UTokyo, Yuki worked at SDG Partners as a ESG strategy consultant. At PwC Advisory, she experienced projects in M&A advisory, ESG strategy and value creation model, human rights due diligence for supply chains, and pre-M&A ESG due diligence. Yuki joined GLIN in 2023.
Areas of expertise: ESG strategy, ESG due diligence and valuation, human rights
Impact/ESG themes of interest: Quantification of non-financial values, DE&I, human rights
Senior Associate
Mai Ichikawa
After completing her master’s degree at the Graduate School of Public Policy at UTokyo, Mai worked at the MOFA Japan where she was engaged in international negotiations related to the COP on climate change. At an ESG consulting firm, she experienced projects such as improving ESG assessment and TCFD/scenario analysis. Mai joined GLIN in 2023.
Areas of expertise: ESG strategy, ESG value creation.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: Environmental issues, Quantification of non-financial values, Scenario planning.
Associate
Daiki Yoshioka
After graduating from Binghamton University, Daiki joined AlphaSights to support management consulting firms and impact investment firms. He also supported the management and operation for a Tokyo-based NPO that supports LGBTQ+ community in Japan. Afterwards, Daiki joined Deloitte Tohmatsu Touche LLC and offered ESG advisory services. He joined GLIN in 2023.
Areas of expertise: Impact-weighted accounts, sustainability strategy.
Impact/ESG themes of interest: DE&I (especially LGBTQ+), wellbeing
Masahiro worked at Mitsubishi Corporation where he engaged in business turnaround and gained overseas experience in Brazil. At Harvard Business School he deepened his knowledge in impact/ESG investment and worked at Anzu Partners and JAFCO, investing in startups and growth-stage firms. He founded GLIN in 2020.
Member, Study Group on Climate Tech Impact Assessment and Management, Ministry of the Environment
Chairman of the VC subcommittee of the Japan Impact-driven Financing Initiative
Expertise: Impact/ESG investment, evaluation, and value creation.
Impact/ESG themes: Climate change, opportunity gap, building an ecosystem for impact investment.
Arisa has been involved in research and training projects related to impact investing and philanthropy in Japan and the United States at institutions such as Indiana University School of Philanthropy, the Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF), the Social Impact Management Initiative (SIMI), and the Sagamore Institute. Previously, she spent eight years in the U.K., where she worked for Storm Research Limited, an independent public equity research firm, conducting research on small and mid-cap stocks in Japan.
Advisor
Brian Trelstad
Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where his teaching and research focuses on social entrepreneurship, systems change, impact investing, and the role of business in society. Brian is also a Partner and Board Member at Bridges Fund Management, an impact investing fund that invests in health, education, and environmental services business. Prior to Bridges, Brian was the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen, where he oversaw investments in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Advisor
Vikram Gandhi
Vikram Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Vikram is the Founder of Asha Impact, an impact-oriented venture capital firm and is also a Senior Advisor to The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is also a member of the Business Administration Advisory Board at University of the People and a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and has been a part of the New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai chapters. In his vast career, he spent a total of 23 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.
Advisor
Shawn Cole
Shawn Cole is a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, social enterprise, and impact investing. Before joining the HBS, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the economic research department. He has served on the Boston Federal Reserve’s Community Development Research Advisory Council, as well as on the Gates Foundation, and was the chair of the endowment management committee of the Telluride Association.
Tsuyoshi began his career at JP Morgan followed by PwC Sustainability where he supported Japanese corporates with their sustainability initiatives. After graduating from Harvard Graduate School of Education, he served as the Country Manager of Saturday Kids Japan, a programming school for kids. He was previously the Director of Global Business Development at Wonderfy before joining GLIN in 2023.
Expertise: Sustainability strategy and impact-weighted accounting.
Sadaharu gained global marketing and social impact marketing experiences at Dentsu. After working abroad in India, he studied impact/ESG investment at Harvard Business School while working with Omidyar-affiliated VC firms in Washington, D.C., and Kenya. After graduating with distinction, he joined McKinsey and later founded GLIN.
Expertise: Impact/ESG investment, evaluation, and value creation.
Impact/ESG themes: Addressing the wealth gap and supporting businesses with high additionality.
David is a founding member of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) and leader of impact-weighted accounting services at EY CCaSS. He has extensive experience in implementing IWAI for companies and investors worldwide. David played key roles in developing impact and ESG services at top consulting, legal, and audit firms, including KKS Advisors and Paul, Weiss, where he helped establish “Sustainability & ESG” and “Civil Rights & Racial Equity Audits” practice groups.
Analyst
Rina Suzuki
During her Bachelors’ at Aoyama Gakuin University, Rina engaged in product development and sales strategy with Mitsubishi Corporation through her studies. She became interested in sustainability and marketing, and has worked as a reporter for the TV Tokyo economic program, interviewing executives of Japanese companies. Also served as a moderator for METI events and as a member of the Impact Shift Executive Committee. After an internship at a VC firm, she joined GLIN as a new graduate in 2024.