Hiroshi Kitami

Pioneer Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of electronic products. It operates through the Car Electronics and Others segments. The Car Electronics segment develops, manufactures, and sells in-vehicle hardware products such as car navigation, car audio and video, car speakers, event data recorders, and other car-related electronic products. The Others segment provides medical and health devices, audio equipment, optical discs, and organic light-emitting diode devices. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto on January 1, 1938 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

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