Masao Yoshikawa. Tokyo.
Mr. Yoshikawa joined Silver Lake in 2009 and is a Director and a Representative in Japan. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Yoshikawa worked for ten years as an investment banker in Tokyo covering the technology sector, first at Goldman Sachs then at Merrill Lynch. He played a major role in many landmark M&A assignments for Japan’s largest technology and diversified industrial companies. Prior to 1999, Masao spent a number of years at Fuji Bank in the M&A advisory group as well as in the Energy and Project Finance divisions in Houston, Texas. Masao has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and an Economics degree from Keio University in Tokyo.