Oki Matsumoto

Joined Salomon Brothers in 1987, moved to Goldman Sachs in 1990, became a partner at the age of 30 in 1994, and founded Special Situation Group. In 1999, founded Monex, Inc. in partnership with Sony, and established Monex Group, Inc. in 2004.

Monex Group operates a wide range of businesses, including Monex Securities and TradeStation, which are retail online brokerage firms in Japan and the U.S., as well as Japan Catalyst, which specializes in engagement investment where he is Chairman and CIO. Additionally, the group provides Web3 support services, full-genome-related services, and human resource development businesses.

Monex Group also has Coincheck Group, listed on the NASDAQ in the U.S., as a subsidiary, under which Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest digital asset exchanges, operates.

Served as an external board member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange for five years and has participated in government committees related to governance reform, actively contributing to the improvement and reform of Japan’s capital markets.

An outside director of Mastercard in the U.S. and a former Vice Chair of Human Rights Watch.

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Will Farrell

Federated Hermes
Assistant Manager, EOS
London

Will co-leads the climate change theme at EOS, the stewardship arm of Federated Hermes Limited, where his coverage includes companies in Europe and Australia, primarily financial services, energy, chemicals, and materials. Prior to joining EOS, Will worked in the energy and infrastructure investment banking team at Macquarie Capital, where he specialised in renewable energy. Before that, Will held a number of roles across the UK climate policy space, including as a parliamentary researcher for Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP on climate and energy issues, and as a climate and economic policy analyst at a diplomatic institute. He was appointed as a voluntary adviser to Rt. Hon. Alok Sharma MP, President of COP26, on preparations for COP26 after co-founding a Westminster climate policy group in 2019, which engaged MPs and Members of the House of Lords to advocate for more ambition on climate action in public policy. Will has a Bachelor’s degree (1st Class Honours) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.