Katsuo Yamanaka

Katsuo Yamanaka is President and Chairman of the Board of MBK Real Estate LLC (MRE). As President and Chairman, he is responsible for the overall management of the Company. He oversees the development and execution of the Company’s fiscal strategies, evaluates the organization’s fiscal function and performance as well as directs MRE’s subsidiaries to fulfill the strategic goals of the organization.

Before his role as President of MRE, he served as a Deputy General Manager at Mitsui & Co. Ltd, MRE’s parent company, where he oversaw the firm’s First Real Estate Business Division in Tokyo. He planned and managed Mitsui’s Global Real Estate portfolio for residential, industrial, logistics, and office properties. He was also responsible for all Human Resources aspects of the First Real Estate Business Division.

Mr. Yamanaka graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and from the University of Tokyo with a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering.

He joined Mitsui in 1989 in the company’s Property Development Division in Osaka. Throughout his career at Mitsui, he has been involved extensively in the real estate industry and worked in various capacities in Asia, Europe and the US. During 2002-2007, he spent five years in Southern California as Senior Vice President of MBK Real Estate, where he was mainly responsible for MRE’s senior housing and retail real estate development and investment strategy.