Apr 1992: Joined The Tokyo Bank, Ltd. (now MUFG Bank, Ltd.) Sep 2000: Joined Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd. (now BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.) Jan 2006: Appointed Director, Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd. Dec 2009: Appointed General Manager, Sales Division, Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd. May 2010: Established the Company; appointed Representative Director, President Oct 2019: Appointed Specially Appointed Professor, Keio University (current) Apr 2020: Appointed Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Science Apr 2021: Appointed Specially Appointed Professor, Hitotsubashi University Jun 2024: Appointed Representative Director, Chairman and CEO, the Company (current)

Apr 1999: Joined Chiyoda Life Insurance Company (now Gibraltar Life Insurance Co., Ltd.) Apr 2001: Joined The R Co., Ltd. (now R&Career Co., Ltd.) Jul 2006: Joined Blue Current Japan K.K. (now Fleishman-Hillard Japan K.K.) Jul 2014: Joined All About, Inc. Jul 2015: Appointed Executive Officer, All About, Inc. Aug 2016: Joined the Company Jun 2018: Appointed Director, the Company May 2023: Appointed Director and COO, the Company Jun 2024: Appointed Representative Director, President and COO, the Company (current)

Apr 1974: Joined The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd. (now MUFG Bank, Ltd.) Apr 1996: Appointed Chairman, Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market Committee Jul 1999: Joined Standard Chartered Bank Apr 2002: Appointed Co-Head of Wholesale Banking, Tokyo Branch, and Head of Global Markets, Standard Chartered Bank Mar 2021: Appointed Outside Corporate Auditor, the Company Jun 2022: Appointed Director, the Company (current) Dec 2023: Appointed Corporate Auditor, WealthPark Inc. (current)

Apr 1982: Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. (now Mizuho Bank, Ltd.) Apr 2016: Appointed Senior Managing Director (Representative Director), Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. May 2016: Appointed Vice President and Director (Representative Director), Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. Jul 2018: Appointed Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Management (current) Jul 2018: Appointed Professor, SBI Graduate School (current) Jul 2018: Appointed Representative Director, President, Innovation Intelligence Research Institute Co., Ltd. (current) Jul 2018: Appointed Outside Director, Nihon Kyoso Investment Co., Ltd. (current) Sep 2018: Appointed Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University (current) Oct 2018: Appointed Representative Director, President, Reading Skill Test Co., Ltd. (current) Oct 2018: Appointed Outside Director, Polaris Capital Group Co., Ltd. (current) Jan 2019: Appointed Outside Director, Environment & Energy Investment Co., Ltd. (current) Dec 2019: Appointed Outside Director, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (current) Mar 2020: Appointed Special Committee Member, CAC Holdings Corporation (current) Apr 2020: Appointed Outside Director, Clara Online, Inc. (now Clara Inc.) (current) Mar 2021: Appointed Outside Director, the Company (current) May 2022: Appointed Representative Director, General Incorporated Association IMA Value Co-Creation Research Group (current) Outside Director, New Frontier Capital Co., Ltd. (current) Outside Director, New Frontier Capital Management (HK) Co., Limited (current) Outside Director, New Frontier Capital International Co., Ltd. (current) Jul 2022: Appointed Outside Director, Arent Inc. (current) Jun 2023: Appointed Outside Director, General Incorporated Association Financial Advisors Association (now General Incorporated Association Japan Financial Product Intermediary Business Association) (current)

Apr 1983: Joined Graphic Processing Technology Research Institute, Inc. (now Zuken Inc.) Feb 1987: Co-founded Solid Ray Research Institute, Inc.; appointed Director Apr 1994: Joined Three D Co., Ltd. Oct 1996: Appointed Director, Three D Co., Ltd. Oct 2002: Appointed Representative Director, Three D Co., Ltd. Jan 2010: Joined SoftCube Co., Ltd. Sep 2016: Appointed Director, the Company Jun 2018: Appointed Full-time Corporate Auditor, the Company (current) Apr 2023: Appointed Director, RealImage Co., Ltd. (current)

Sep 2007: Registered as attorney-at-law Sep 2007: Joined Hanzomon Sogo Law Office Jan 2010: Joined Omotesando Sogo Law Office (current) Mar 2019: Appointed Outside Corporate Auditor, Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd. (current) Mar 2021: Appointed Outside Corporate Auditor, the Company (current) Jun 2024: Appointed Outside Corporate Auditor, San-ai Obbli Co., Ltd. (current) Feb 2025: Appointed Outside Corporate Auditor, Aohata Corporation

Apr 1992: Joined The Tokyo Bank, Ltd. (now MUFG Bank, Ltd.) Jan 2002: Joined Rating and Investment Information, Inc.; seconded to Financial Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd. (now Nikkei Financial Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd.) Jan 2006: Joined Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd. Feb 2011: Joined Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. Apr 2012: Joined NS Financial Management Consulting Co., Ltd. Apr 2014: Appointed Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Apr 2016: Appointed Professor, Business School, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (current) Jun 2022: Appointed Outside Corporate Auditor, the Company (current)