Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo 4th Anniversary!
Speaker - Yoshito Hori

"Topic: TBA"

Yoshito Hori
Dean, Globis Management School
Managing Partner, Globis Capital Partners
Mr. Yoshito Hori is Chairman and CEO of Globis Group, which he founded in 1992 in Tokyo, Japan. The Group has five lines of business; Globis Management School(GMS), Globis Organization Learning(GOL), Globis Management Institute(GMI), Globis Management Bank(GMB), and Globis Capital Partners(GCP).

In December 2005, Globis Management School (GMS) has obtained a license to issue MBA from Ministry of Education and Mr. Hori became the first Dean of Graduate School of Management, Globis University. GMS was ranked among top 3 business schools in Japan by Nikkei Industrial News Paper in 2004.

He is also a founding managing partner of Globis Capital Partners (GCP), which manages 3 funds, Globis Incubation Fund (1996) Apax Globis Japan Fund (1999), and Globis Fund III (2006), with the total commitment exceeds 38bil. yen(US$360mil.). Prior to Globis, Mr. Hori worked at Sumitomo Corporation where he was in change of new business development and mergers & acquisitions activities.

Mr. Hori is a member of World Economic Forum's New Asian Leaders Executive Committee, a board member of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), Japan Private Equity Association, and the Harvard Business School Alumni Association. He founded the Japan Chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO) in 1995 and became the first board member of YEO International in charge of YEO Asia Pacific region in 1996. He also served on the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

Mr. Hori is an author of several books including "Six Dimensions of Life", "Personal Mission Statement", "The Case-Method Approach to Strategic Entrepreneurship" and "Venture Management Revolution". He also periodically blogs on to his web site named "Views of Entrepreneurs." Mr. Hori was featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal, on Forbes Japan and Forbes Asia as one of Japan's most successful entrepreneur.

He received a BS in Engineering from Kyoto University in 1986 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1991. He enjoys swimming, traveling, and game of"GO". Most of all, he enjoys his family with a wife and five sons.

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Globis Group
Globis Capital Partners, Inc.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital (VC) firms. With its unique combination of local business expertise through Globis Group and the learning from the Western VC firm through Apax Partners, GCP has set, and will continue to set new VC standards in Japan.

GCP currently advises 3 funds of approx. JPY40 billion. Its first-fund Globis Incubation Fund (JPY540 million) was established in 1996 and has been fully invested. To date, it has recorded a 7X return to its limited partners. The second fund-Apax Globis Japan Fund (JPY 20 billion) was established in late 1999 and has invested in over 30 companies which range from IT, telecom, software, media/content, retail and healthcare services. The third fund （JPY 18 billion）have completed its second closing on Oct 6, 2006.

GCP has various successful portfolio companies, such as;
-Works Applications, with initial investment in 1997 and then follow-on investments in 1998 and 1999, went IPO in December 2001. Works Applications was named by Nikkei Newspaper as the best IPO in 2002 and dominates the ERP package software market for mid-sized to large corporations in Japan.　　

-GDH, a digital animation production provides image culture for the next generation via a global network, went IPO in November 2004.

-Netage Group, Incubator of internet-related business, went public in Aug. 2006.

Investment Policy:
GCP is seeking for investments in high-growth sectors such as core information technology, telecom, software, media & digital contents, retail and health care services. It aims to provide entrepreneurial companies with value added investment services based on its strong local network of Globis Group.

Globis Group
www.globis.co.jp

Globis Capital Partners, Inc.
www.globis.co.jp/gcp/