Akihiko Yasuda

Mr. Akihiko Yasuda is a Managing Director of Asia Alternatives and is based in the Hong Kong office.
He has primary responsibility for the Firm’s investments in Japan.
Mr. Yasuda is also on the Firm’s Investment Committee.
Mr. Yasuda has over 20 years of professional experience in the areas of corporate finance, leveraged finance, real estate finance, fixed income investing, and private equity investing.
Prior to joining Asia Alternatives, he was an Executive Director and Head of Private Equity at The Sumitomo Trust Finance (H.K.) Limited, an investment advisory arm of The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
(“Sumitomo Trust”).
Mr. Yasuda managed the global private equity fund investment advisory group in Hong Kong with over $1 billion of committed capital for the bank’s pension clients as well as the parent bank proprietary investments.
From 2003-2007, Mr. Yasuda was Director at CITIC Capital Partners (“CITIC Capital”), a private equity arm of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited.
At CITIC Capital, Mr. Yasuda worked in the Tokyo and Shanghai offices as one of the core founding members for the firm’s first private equity fund.
He also served on the Board of Directors for Pokka Corporation, a leading Japanese beverage company and one of the CITIC Capital’s portfolio companies.
Mr. Yasuda received an M.B.A.
from Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor in Economics from Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.
He is fluent in Japanese and English.