People

Akira Kondo established ADCO in February 2009 and became its President and Representative Director.
He has extensive experience in acquiring and executing M&A and various equity finance deals for major domestic and international companies.
While working at Mitsubishi Bank's San Francisco and San Jose branches, he was in charge of companies in Silicon Valley.
After that, he worked at the Singapore branch, London branch, and the head office.
When he was Deputy Branch Manager of the London Branch, he was in charge of European affairs, Head of Corporate Sales, and Secretary General of the European Merger Committee with the Bank of Tokyo.
When he was General Manager of Head Office Sales Division, he was in charge of the telecommunications, steel, and chemical sectors, and has a strong industry network in these fields. In 2000, after Mitsubishi Bank acquired Kokusai Securities from Nomura Securities, he was transferred from Mitsubishi Bank to Kokusai Securities.
After that, he was engaged in the integration of more than 10 securities companies, and was appointed as General Manager of the Investment Banking Division and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (now Mitsubishi Morgan Stanley Securities), which was finally established after the integration.
As Global Head of Investment Banking, he was responsible for all aspects of MUFG Group's investment banking division.
He is currently an advisor to Bain Capital and an advisor to CVA, a European consulting firm.

He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University.

Joined Nippon Ferrofluidics Corp. (currently Ferrotec Holdings Corporation) in 1983, worked at the head office and was in charge of sales/marketing of the products for hard disk equipment, mainly in Japan, and the United States. In 1997, he established a local subsidiary in Singapore, became Managing Director of Ferrotec Singapore. After returning to the head office in Japan in 2001, as an executive operating officer and general manager of the sales division, he handled all products handled by Ferrotec, and succeeded in expanding sales of the products. In addition, promoted M & A and business alliances with other companies in Japan, USA, Singapore, Russia, etc. He become a director (board) of Ferrotec Corp. in 2008 and was appointed Senior Managing Director (later Executive Vice President) of Ferrotec Ceramics Corp. (currently Ferrotec Material Technologies), and succeed in sales of their ceramic products to semiconductor process equipment manufacturers in the USA. He became an executive operating officer of ADMAP Corp(currently Ferrotec Material Technologies). in 2015.
In 2017, Ferrotec. became a holding company and he was appointed the president of Ferrotec Corp. which was a business continuation company split from Ferrotec Holdings. Retired from Ferrotec Holdings in 2022. Became an advisor to ADCO and continues to the present.

He graduated from Obirin University, Faculty of Economics

Yasuhiro Matsumura, responsible for strategic planning at MUFG Bank Market Business Group, contributed in planning and executing strategies for entering the securities business and asset management business, including alliances with domestic securities companies and foreign investment banks. As a staff member of the chairing Bank of the Japanese Bankers Association, he was also in charge of negotiating with authorities regarding the entry of banks into the securities business. He is engaged in investment banking business (mainly M&A business) in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities. Thereafter he assumed a position in charge of sales and product planning at Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management.
After engaged in private equity business at an investment fund, he was appointed as a director and chairman of audit and supervisory committee of Human Associates Holdings Co., Ltd. in June 2020, and played a leading role, as a chairman of the company's special committee, in managing a TOB offering from a major general trading company in 2021.
Since May 2023, he has been an executive vice president of ADCO.

He has graduated from Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo, and has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

He joined ADCO in December 2020. After working for a major retailer, he worked as a customer engineer for a financial back-office DB solution at an IT venture company. After working in the apparel industry at Funai Consulting Incorporated, Inc., where he was involved in apparel chain M&A business DD, consulting for department stores, and real estate brokerage consulting etc., he focused on consulting in the healthcare sector and launched a consulting division for hospitals and clinics. After that, he established Iryou Consulting S Co. and engaged in consulting for medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies. He is well versed in the healthcare and distribution sectors.

He graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Law

Tatsuya Sakagami joined ADCO in Jan 2023. After graduating from university, he joined the Bank of Tokyo (now MUFG Bank) and engaged mainly in corporate banking. Then, he provided M&A transaction services, primarily financial due diligence on various-sized companies in a wide range of industries, at KPMG FAS. Then he engaged in cross-border M&A advisory service at Tokai Tokyo Securities and Takenaka Partners for almost ten years. He advised many acquisitions in the USA and ASEAN countries by Japanese companies.

He graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Economics, CPA.