Background

• Partner of Deloitte's IFRS Center of Excellence in Tokyo and Tokyo Center of Deloitte's Global IFRS and Offering Services
• Member of Deloitte's Global IFRS Leadership Team (GILT)
• Serves major clients in and out of Japan with an emphasis on SEC registrants and Japanese multinational financial institutions
• Member, Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Deloitte Japan's representative on the IFRS Adoption Task Force jointly organised by Nippon Keidanren (Japanese Business Federation) and JICPA
• Member, IFRS Practice Group of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan
• Author of or contributor to many publications on accounting under IFRS, US GAAP, and Japanese GAAP
• Co-translator of Deloitte's iGAAP Financial Instruments