Naoto Takashima

Baring Private Equity Asia (Japan) (BPEA-JP) is the Japanese office of Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA), an independent investment firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Hong Kong with additional offices in Singapore, Shanghai and San Francisco. BPEA focuses on the Chinese private equity market, and looks for diversification across the region, particularly in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea. BPEA is an affiliate of UK-based Baring Private Equity International, which in turn was part of ING Group (NYSE: ING) until a 2004 MBO. The UK firm acts as a global platform enabling regionally-owned affiliates to share their global expertise. BPEA-JP was established in 2007 and is located in Tokyo. The firm contributes local expertise to the management of BPEA's Asian private equity investment funds. Their clients and partners are institutional investors including major private equity firms, intermediaries, financial institutions, pension plans, and governmental entities.

Carolco Pictures, Inc. is an entertainment company that finances, produces and leases motion pictures for exhibition in domestic and foreign theatrical markets and for later worldwide release in all media, including home video and pay and free television. The company was founded in1986 and is and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Toys "R" Us-Japan Ltd. operates a chain of toy and juvenile products retail stores. Its products include educational toys, dolls, plush toys and character toys, video games, bicycles, sporting goods, stationery, baby clothing, shoes, strollers, car seats, food and formula. The company was founded on November 21, 1989 and is headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan.

EQT Private Capital Asia Ltd(EQT Private Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong.

AIR LIQUIDE Japan Ltd. engages in the provision of standard and specialty gases that include among others, oxygen, nitrogen, acetylene, argon, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, helium, and hydrogen. It also supplies electronic materials through its ALOHA Advanced Precursors, and provides medical products and services to hospitals and home care. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

BELLSYSTEM24, Inc. provides customer relationship management solutions. It offers CRM outsourcing, technology, and consulting services. The firm's solutions encompass digital communications, social CRM, voices of customer’s analysis, call reduction, inside sales, operation performance management system, training, Q-One Awards, and Knowledge Ring. The company was founded on September 20, 1982 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

SunTelephone Co., Ltd. engages in export and import of telecommunications equipment, parts and materials. It develops telecommunications terminal and transmission terminal devices as well as leases and sells commercial and industrial machinery. The company was founded in December 1948 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Towada Pioneer Corp. engages in the development and manufacture of clean environmental and electronic products. Its operations are carried out through the following business divisions: Main Business and Environmental Activities. The Main Business division provides humidity control systems, air showers, sole cleansers, static electricity management, class 10,000 clean rooms and simple clean rooms. The Environmental Activities division provides safety and clean environmental services such as internal and external cleaning, oirase mountain stream cleaning strategy and CO2 reduction by eco-drive systems. The company was founded on October 1, 1972 and is headquartered in Towada, Japan.

Symphony Innovation LLC operates as a holding company which focuses on building artificial intelligence and machine learning companies in healthcare, financial services, retail and CPG, industrial, media, and enterprise markets. The company was founded by Romesh Wadhwani and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Harman Connected Services Engineering Corp. engages in the provision of software development services. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Symphony Teleca Corp. develops, manages and supports software for emerging cloud and enterprise mobility solutions. The company was founded on August 31, 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Symphony Teleca Services, Inc. develops software solutions and provides consulting services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Motorola Solutions, Inc., Starnet Technologies, Inc. develops integrated voice and data communications technology and products. The company is based in Franksville, WI. The company was founded by Jayant Kadambi, Sanjay Dhawan, Ayyappan Sankaran. Starnet Technologies was acquired by Netopia, Inc. on October 14, 1999 for $32.66 million.

Aricent, Inc. provides communications software products and services for equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Mckinsey & Co. SAS provides business and management consulting services. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.