Oki Matsumoto

Oki Matsumoto is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Monex Group, a major online financial institution that operates retail online brokerages in Japan, the US, China (including Hong Kong), and Australia. With the acquisition of Coincheck in April 2018, crypto-assets became one of the core pillars of the business and Monex became home to one of the largest crypto exchanges in Japan. Oki began his career at Salomon Brothers before joining Goldman Sachs where at 30yrs old, he became the youngest person to make a general partner. He took charge of trading, risk management, and capital markets businesses in Asia, and also founded the special situations unit at Goldman Sachs. In 1999, he founded Monex which was jointly capitalized with Sony. The group has about 1100 employees worldwide with over half of its staff located in the United States and Costa Rica. Oki has served as financial counsel to the Prime Minister of Japan and as an outside director of several companies including the Tokyo Stock Exchange from June 2008 to 2013. He presently is an outside director of MasterCard and a Vice Chair of Human Rights Watch.