Management

Hideaki Sakurai
Managing Partner
Since joining J-STAR as a founding member in 2006, He has been involved in origination, execution, monitoring, and exiting. He is also involved in corporate activities as well as fund raising. His supervising investments include Japan Waste (Industrial waste treatment), RENATUS (Recycling and waste disposal, Environmental infrastructure and building maintenance Consulting), Sincere (industrial waste disposal, building maintenance, waste management), Hot Palette (Pepper Lunch operation), New Japan Development Co, Ltd, (industrial waste disposal, home appliance recycling), Alpha Corporation (private tutor dispatch), Aisei pharmacy (dispensing pharmacy operation), Esco (electrical equipment sales and construction), NHS (insurance agency), Primagest(image solution business), Taiheiyo Seiki (construction machinery parts manufacturing), Apo Plus Station(sales and marketing support for pharmaceutical companies), TSS (electronic circuit board manufacturing), and Ecos Factory/Green Loop Recycle One (currently Renova Waste Plastic Recycling). He has made 14 investments and exited 9 of them. In the area of business succession, he is committed to providing support from proposal to execution, including M&A structuring that takes into consideration both buyers and sellers, and support for business owners in formulating family succession plans. He has been involved in the private equity industry for a long time and feels that the role of the private equity industry has changed from being a mere provider of liquidity to a supporter of holding capital for small and mid-sized companies as part of the social infrastructure that contributes to the productivity of the industrial structure. He finds it rewarding to work with the managers and employees of the companies he invests in to create these changes. He has been involved in investments in small and medium-sized companies since the early days of Japan’s private equity market, investing in Victoria, BancTec Japan (later Primagest), Nippon Manufacturing Service, Radishbo-ya, and supporting exits such as IPOs. Before joining J-STAR, he worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Before that, he worked as a certified public accountant at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, where he was involved in accounting audits and internal controls for financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies, as well as accounting research for structured finance, a market that was just beginning to emerge. He received a bachelor’s degree from Waseda University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Japan.
Since joining J-STAR as a founding member in 2006, He has been involved in origination, execution, monitoring, and exiting. He is also involved in corporate activities as well as fund raising. His supervising investments include Japan Waste (Industrial waste treatment), RENATUS (Recycling and waste disposal, Environmental infrastructure and building maintenance Consulting), Sincere (industrial waste disposal, building maintenance, waste management), Hot Palette (Pepper Lunch operation), New Japan Development Co, Ltd, (industrial waste disposal, home appliance recycling), Alpha Corporation (private tutor dispatch), Aisei pharmacy (dispensing pharmacy operation), Esco (electrical equipment sales and construction), NHS (insurance agency), Primagest(image solution business), Taiheiyo Seiki (construction machinery parts manufacturing), Apo Plus Station(sales and marketing support for pharmaceutical companies), TSS (electronic circuit board manufacturing), and Ecos Factory/Green Loop Recycle One (currently Renova Waste Plastic Recycling). He has made 14 investments and exited 9 of them. In the area of business succession, he is committed to providing support from proposal to execution, including M&A structuring that takes into consideration both buyers and sellers, and support for business owners in formulating family succession plans. He has been involved in the private equity industry for a long time and feels that the role of the private equity industry has changed from being a mere provider of liquidity to a supporter of holding capital for small and mid-sized companies as part of the social infrastructure that contributes to the productivity of the industrial structure. He finds it rewarding to work with the managers and employees of the companies he invests in to create these changes. He has been involved in investments in small and medium-sized companies since the early days of Japan’s private equity market, investing in Victoria, BancTec Japan (later Primagest), Nippon Manufacturing Service, Radishbo-ya, and supporting exits such as IPOs. Before joining J-STAR, he worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Before that, he worked as a certified public accountant at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, where he was involved in accounting audits and internal controls for financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies, as well as accounting research for structured finance, a market that was just beginning to emerge. He received a bachelor’s degree from Waseda University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Japan.