Masaru Ohta

Masaru Ohta has 20 years of experience in finance and accounting, and over 10 years of experience in private equity investment and capital markets. He currently serves as executive management to several venture companies as an external board member as well.

Prior to Kii, he served on the boards of Phoenix Capital, one of the largest private equity funds focusing on buyout and business recovery in Japan, where he had led their investment team. He invested around JPY32 billion and brought a large amount of capital gain to the investors of the funds and to the company itself. Prior to that, he was employed by Mitsubishi UFJ Capital(predecessor to UFJ Capital), where he was in charge of corporate planning and business administration further to venture investment.

He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in 1991, where he held various advisory roles over 10 years. He had been engaged in audits of financial statements of IT and hi-tech companies and in consulting services, especially business process re-engineering; implementation of ERP software; and in financial advisory services such as M&A. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and is member of the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.