Faculty

Koji Ashizawa

Discipline:
  • > Accounting and Finance
Education:

MBA, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University
BA, Economics, Keio University

Biography

Koji Ashizawa has extensive experience as an M&A banker and entrepreneur. He has worked in M&A advisory for more than twenty years, advising on various cross-border and domestic M&As for Japanese blue chip clients such as trading houses, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, and manufacturers for both HSBC and BNP Paribas.

In 2022, Koji moved to Silicon Valley and founded a startup, serving as its CEO. He sold the company in 2023 through an M&A to a TSE-listed company.

Currently, Koji is co-head of the M&A team at a major Japanese financial institution and teaches Finance I at GLOBIS University.