Tadasu Matsuo

Managing Director, Head of Global Alternative Investments at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

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Tadasu Matsuo leads JST’s alternative investment and has built up the program from scratch since January, 2022. Before joining JST, he led HarbourVest Partners Japan as a managing director and co-head from April, 2020.

As the head of alternative investment, he also led, built up and oversaw Japan Post Insurance’s alternative investment, ranging from private equity and infrastructure funds to real estate and hedge funds since September 2016.

Before joining JP Insurance, he headed Daido Life’s alternative investment.

In serving as Senior Managing Director, he also engaged in private equity fund investment and headed a business development of Alternative Investment Capital (AIC), a leading private equity FoFs manager and gatekeeper in Japan.

From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Matsuo served as an M&A advisor to various insurers' transactions at PwC Financial Advisory Services Japan and then earlier in his career, worked for Nippon Life Insurance Company for 13 years, where he managed overseas sovereign credit loans and investments.

Mr. Matsuo received his MBA from Duke University and BA in Economics from The University of Tokyo, also receiving his US CPA.