Koichiro Okamoto

Founder & CEO, Altoa, Inc.

Biography

Koichiro (Kay) Okamoto was appointed as the CEO of Yayoi Co., Ltd. in 2008. He turned Yayoi from a traditional software company into a cloud-oriented service company. He led Yayoi’s FinTech initiative and founded an online lending company, Altoa, Inc. in 2017, where he also serves as the CEO.
Prior to Yayoi, he founded a boutique management consulting firm, Real Solutions in 2000. His past experiences include system engineer at Nomura Research Institute and consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA with Honor from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BE from The University of Tokyo.

Sessions

The Potential for Online Lending in Japan

Description

The online lending market in the US is evolving into an online fundraising market as it spreads beyond loans to factoring etc attracting traditional financial services to this market in addition to the online lending specific players. This session discusses the future of online fundraising in Japan taking into account the trends overseas.