Ichiro graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, and joined Tokyo Marine & Fire Insurance in 1978, and began working in the international insurance business in 1985 when he joined TMM in the U.S. From 2000, he led the growth strategy of the life and non-life insurance business through M&A in Asia, and in 2001, established the Group’s first overseas life insurance company (MLITH) in Thailand through M&A, introducing a management structure with a joint team of local executives and Japanese advisors. In 2008, he was appointed as General Manager of Tokyo Marine Holdings’ International Business Planning Department and established a new organization to strengthen the IT and HR functions of the international insurance business. In 2020, he left the Tokyo Marine Group to become an advisor to Deloitte Tohmatsu LLC.