Key Personnel

Founded Atlas Partners Japan together with Denis Antoine in November 2003. After interviewing over 50 real estate asset managers, successfully launched the first multi-manager fund in Japan in 2004. Mr. Miyabe started his carrier at Goldman Sachs in New York and spent first twelve years of his carrier at prime U.S. investment banks in New York and Tokyo. Other position he held in the past includes, President of JMB International Ltd., Axess International Ltd. and Atlas Capital Tokyo ltd.

Mr. Miyabe is a graduate of Keio University School of Commerce and a MBA graduate of Columbia University.

Mr. Hirai spent a larger part of his 20 year career at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in real estate finance and investment management, including overseas assignments. At PwC Advisory in Japan Mr. Hirai was engaged in distressed asset transaction and business recovery services. Thereafter, he assumed various managerial positions at GMAC Commercial Mortgage including positions of CEO, Asian Operations and Executive Managing Director.

From 1986 to 1992 Mr. Hirai was involved in US real estate, devoting most of his efforts to syndicated transactions, both in equity and debt, and workouts.
In March 1997, Mr. Hirai, as seller at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, developed a concept of, negotiated and closed Japan’s first ‘bulk sale’ of NPL, and subsequently implemented several similar transactions.
From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Hirai, as representative of GMAC Commercial Mortgage (“GMACCM”) in Japan, organized efforts to acquire business of NAM (Nippon Asset Management, formerly Japan Leasing), including real estate assets exceeding JPY 50 billion, out of its corporate reorganization procedure. The NAMcorporate reorganization case made it the largest of such kind in terms of size of debt at that time in Japanese history. As CEO, Asian Operations, Mr. Hirai integrated NAM’s business into GMACCM’ operations, enabling new GMACCM to carry out full-fledged real estate finance business ranging from non-recourse lending, loan acquisition, servicing, to real estate acquisition, asset and property management.

Mr. Antoine is one of the founding members. Mr. Antoine spent over 30 years with the leading French banking group, BNP Paribas. He was Head of BNP Paribas’ offices in Tokyo, London, and Hong Kong. He has a solid background in investment banking and wealth management in Asia and particularly in Japan.

Mr. Antoine is a MBA graduate of Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (France).

Mr. Hashizume has over 19 years of experience in real estate, real estate finance and corporate management in Japan as well as the United States.

From 1999 until 2003, he carried out many real estate deals at the real estate investment unit of GMAC Commercial Mortgage Japan K.K.(“GMACCM”). He led the acquisition group there to pursue billion dollar scale transactions of various types on a bidding and directly negotiated basis. Acquisitions included office, apartment, hotel and retail properties as well as real estate companies. He was also involved in the acquisition of the business of NAM (Nippon Asset Management, formerly Japan Leasing Corp. ) to which GMACCM became a sponsor in 1999. For this transaction his main role was to acquire more than 100 real estate assets worth in excess of US$ 600 million. In addition to acquisitions, he led the disposal of major assets including land, residential properties, a hotel and warehouses with total proceeds of more than US$300 million. Most of the assets he acquired have been fully exited, generating over US$ 240 million of capital gains with a blended 35% unleveraged IRR achieved within a four years holding period.
Prior to GMACCM, he worked for Taisei Corp., one of the world’s largest construction and development companies, for over 14 years where he gained extensive experience in land development, real estate valuation and asset management. During his career he was seconded to Taisei’s US subsidiary in California (1995-1999). As an executive vice president and executive director, he asset-managed more than 600 million dollars of invested real estate, and successfully sold an aggregate 1.4 million sqf of Class A office buildings in Long Beach, Chicago and Washington DC as well as a 394 rooms four- star hotel in San Diego with total value of US$400 million to prominent institutional investors.
Mr. Hashizume is a Licensed Real Estate Appraiser in Japan and also holds a real estate broker license. He commands real estate software, DYNA and Argus. (CMBS).

Shin Sakamoto joined Atlas Partners Japan in 2009 bringing with him an abundance of experience from the banking, finance and real estate securitization industries.

In 2001 he joined GMAC Commercial Mortgage (current Capmark Asia) as Vice President of Capital Markets where he was responsible for CMBS securitization. In 2007 he joined Ishin Hotel REIT Management Co., Ltd as Chief Financial Officer responsible for all aspects of accounting & finance for the company and the J-REIT investment company. Here he was involved in launching a hotel specific J-REIT which included 14 properties, and also served as member of the board.
Shin Sakamoto graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce and Accounting from Hitotsubashi University.
Appointed member of the board on January 8th, 2010.

Mr. Unebe joined APJ in October, 2006 as Senior Vice President. With over 25 years of experience in the finance industry, Mr. Unebe is responsible for the legal and compliance activities of the firm.

Mr. Unebe’s extensive experience is based in structured finance business such as securitization, lease finance, project finance, and LBO/MBO finance. His work has taken him on missions across the globe from New York, London to Singapore with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd., completing his career at the Bank as General Manager of the Asian Investment Banking Division. Prior to joining APJ, Mr. Unebe worked for another real estate firm for a short while.
Mr. Unebe graduated from The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, and received an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Mr. Iwasaki joined APJ as Asset Manager in August 2008, with over 12 years of real estate experience with much of this experience focused on the real estate fund transactions.

Prior to joining APJ, Mr. Iwasaki was at Glovance Corporation and provided asset management service for various clients and prior to that at one of the major real estate developers. As Corporation Officer / Department Manager (Acquisition Dept.) of Glovance Corporation, Mr. Iwasaki offered his expertise in acquisitions, dispositions, developments of commercial real estate, and planning, advising and fund raising for Real Estate Investment Funds.
Mr. Iwasaki is a graduate of Tokyo Polytechnic University, Faculty of Engineering. He is registered as a First-class Architect. He also holds a Real-Estate Broker license and is a Certified Master of Real Estate Securitization.

Harumi Kadono joined Atlas Partners Japan (APJ) in 2009, with over 15 years of experience in the real estate investment and the accounting and finance industry; she is responsible for the fund management and reporting operation of the firm.

She started her career at Andersen Consulting and then later moved to KPMG. She joined GE Fleet Services in 2000 working within the M&A team on pricing and execution of acquisitions and credit purchasing. In 2004 she joined GE Real Estate where she was responsible for asset management businesses, originations and servicing of non-recourse loan collateralized by real estate and NPL’s. In 2005 she joined the Singapore government investment corporation, GIC Real Estate International Japan K.K. where she was responsible for fund origination of a JPY 400 billion+ fund, asset management, fund management, product development, refinancing and much more. In 2007 she joined a US-based hedge fund in Japan where she worked on acquisitions and dispositions of real estate properties.
Harumi Kadono graduated from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies and received a Master of Arts from the Graduate School of Public Administration at International Christian University, Tokyo.

Masahiko Namatame joined Atlas Partners Japan (APJ) in 2008 and is responsible for domestic investor relations.

He joined Nomura Securities in 2000 where he was responsible for the sales of retail, financial institutions and nonprofit organizations. In 2004 he joined CREIA, Inc where he was initially responsible for due diligence, and then moved on to product development and fund marketing. At CREIA he led a team for a pre-REIT startup and launched a fund. In 2006 he joined Global Asset Corporation (Glovance Corporation) as General Manager of the Real Estate Fund department where he was in charge of investor relations.
Masahiko Namatame holds a Certified Master from the Association for Real Estate Securitization, a real estate broker license and is an Affiliated Financial Planner. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the College of Law, Nihon University.

Junko Okada joined Atlas Partners Japan (APJ) in August 2007 and is responsible for domestic and international investor relations and fund structuring.

She joined Morgan Stanley in 1989 and was in charge of marketing derivative products to institutional investors. In 1995 she joined Tokyo-Mitsubishi International plc (London) where she was in charge of origination and structuring of asset finance within the capital markets group. In 2007 she joined J-REP Co., Ltd and moved to J-REP Investments Co., Ltd, J-REP’s fund management company to arrange financing for a logistics fund.
Junko Okada, a member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan, holds a bachelors degree from Sophia University and a master’s from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mr. Kodama joined APJ as Manager, Asset Management January 2006. With over 17 years of real estate experience he is responsible for asset management as well as acquisition.

Prior to joining APJ Mr. Kodama was with GMAC Commercial Mortgage Japan KK as Senior Investment Manager in the Real Estate Investment Group. As an asset and property manager he managed approximately US 300 million in real estate portfolio for US and Singapore based investors and managed over 200 tenant companies. Mr. Kodama is committed to raising the value of assets with aggressive leasing activities, building renovation and seismic risk management.

Mr. Kodama graduated from Hokkaido University with a B.A. in Law.

Mr. Koyama joined APJ as Senior Investment Officer in August 2006. With over 16 years of Real Estate experience he is responsible for acquisition.

Prior to joining APJ Mr. Koyama was with Millea Real-Estate-Risk Management as Asset Manager in charge of acquisition. He was involved in the acquisition of office buildings and residential buildings for various funds, acted as Financial Advisor for an outlet shopping mall project (JPY4.2 billion), involved in development projects with a major Construction Company on a several properties in Tokyo and Morioka. He was also involved in research and development projects for hotel operators and investors.

Mr. Koyama is a graduate of Nihon University School of Science and Engineering. He is a First-class architect and a Real-estate transaction specialist.