Jun Makihara

Part of The Arena Group Holdings, Inc., Six Apart Ltd. is a company that builds websites using a powerful content management system called Movable Type. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company's blogging software and static publishing platform make site management easy and effective. The company was founded in 2001 by Mena G. Trott, Benjamin Trott, Ben Trott, Reid G. Hoffman. Nobuhiro Seki has been the CEO of the company since 2003.

BHF Kleinwort Benson Group SA is a financial holding company, which engages in private banking, asset management, and financial markets and corporate activities. It provides wealth management services and strategic advice for businesses, as well as access to the community of institutional investors and family offices. The company was founded by Timothy C. Collins on June 18, 2004 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

SBI Shinsei Bank Ltd. engages in the business of banking services. It operates through the following segments: Institutional Business, Global Market and Individual Business. The Institutional Business segment provides corporate and syndicated loans, acquisition finance, ship finance, healthcare finance, finance for startups, private equity, renewable energy finance, real estate non-recourse finance, project finance and rehabilitation finance services. The Global Market segment provides financial products and services for financial institutions, foreign exchange, derivatives, and other capital markets. The Individual Business segment provides unique products that are not offered by any other bank such as comprehensive accounts, home mortgages, investment trusts, unsecured personal loans, shopping credit cards and loans secured by real estate. The company was founded in December 1952 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

TradeStation Group, Inc. through its principal operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. and TradeStation Forex, Inc. offers the TradeStation analysis and trading platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. The TradeStation platform offers state-of-the-art electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom Equities, Options, Futures and Forex trading strategies. TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & NFA) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant, and also a member of the Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and NASDAQ OMX. Its TradeStation Prime Services division, based in New York, seeks to provide prime brokerage services, including securities lending, to small and mid-sized hedge funds and other firms. TradeStation Forex, Inc. (Member NFA) is a Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED) that exclusively provides the company’s forex brokerage offering. The company’s technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc. develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services. Its London-based subsidiary, TradeStation Europe Limited, an FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities, Inc. and TradeStation Forex, Inc. TradeStation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, one of the largest online financial services providers in Japan. Monex Group acquired TradeStation in June 2011 as an important step in achieving its goal to become a leading global integrated online financial services group.

The Japan Society of New York is an organization that connects Japanese arts, culture, business, and society with audiences around the world. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The society aims to strengthen connections within and build new bridges beyond Japan. The CEO of the company is Joshua W. Walker.