Eiichi Seki Advisor

Mr. Seki joined Polaris as Special Advisor in May 2011. Since then, he served as Chairman of Kanto Unyu , Clean Surface Technology and Yodogawa Transformer, all invested and exited by Polaris with success. Concurrently, he is Director of Sogo Medical and Statutory Auditor of Innova. Mr. Seki started his business career at The Industrial Bank of Japan in 1971 and, after various assignments in and outside of Japan, became Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank in 2002. Then he moved to Kokunai Shinpan (renamed as Rakuten KC in October 2005) in 2003 to turn it around and became CEO in June 2005 and Chairman in June 2008. He was also Statutory Auditor of Rakuten Bank since June 2009 and has been Executive Officer of Rakuten, Inc.　He has been appointed Auditor of Innova, inc. Mr. Seki received a BA in Commerce from Hitotsubashi University.