Hiroshi Kondo

From 1999 to 2021 Mr. Kondo worked as General Manager/Director for the IPO department in Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd., one of the leading investment bank and brokerage houses in Japan. He started his career as an IPO consultant, including advising on legal disclosure, corporate governance, accounting, compliance and etc., in order to pass the listing examination by the stock exchange and the authorities in 1985 in Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd. After Yamaichi ceased operations in 1998, he worked for Sumitomo Capital Securities Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of Sumitomo Bank, currently Daiwa Securities) and IBJ Securities Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of The Industrial Bank of Japan, currently Mizuho Securities) to introduce the equity underwriting business for bank-affiliated securities houses which were only licensed to handle debt securities at that time. Throughout his career as an IPO consultant, he advised hundreds of IPO ideas and accomplished more than 60 IPOs, additional listings and step-up listings. Mr. Kondo holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.