Naoya Sugimoto
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fund Management HQ, Japan Science and Technology Agency
Naoya SUGIMOTO is the Co-Chief Investment Officer, the head of Global Investment Department, the Deputy Director-General of Japan University Fund at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Prior to joining JST in March 2022, he provided portfolio solutions through all asset classes to institutional investors at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to that, he headed Japan Strategy Team and Japan Executive Office at PIMCO Japan Ltd. leading portfolio solutions business, and worked for PIMCO headquarter office in US in charge of developing portfolio and risk management models. Prior to that, he served as a quant analyst at Credit Suisse Securities. He also served as the CSO/CFO for Forbes JAPAN, and worked at NTT Data on cryptography R&D in his career. He holds an MSc in Computer Science (AI) from the University of Tokyo Graduate School and a BEng from the University of Tokyo. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), the Financial Risk Manager (FRM), the Certified Member Analyst of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (CMA), and the Certified Member of the Nippon Technical Analysts Association (CMTA) designation.
