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Our leadership team
The management and key professionals of Tokyo Trust Capital have extensive cross border real estate experience at investment banks, private equity funds, financial institutions, developers, and construction companies. All have worked in both Japanese and western institutions. All of the team members have worked together at prior positions with some having worked together for more than a decade.
Director
Kaori Furuta
Ms. Furuta joined TTC from Aozora Bank where she was a Senior Vice President in charge managing the bank’s real estate loan portfolio in North America, UK and Australia. The portfolio spanned all asset types including office, retail, hotel, residential and she managed a team which monitored and reported on loan and asset performance focusing on both the asset and market levels. Prior to Aozora Bank, she handled professional roles in asset management at LaSalle Investment Management, real estate non-recourse loan origination at Shinsei Bank and loan recovery control functions at Goldman Sachs Realty. Earlier in her career she worked at Singapore Development Bank and Cathay Pacific Airlines. Ms. Furuta is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin Womens University.
Director
Jiro Yajima
Mr.Yajima has worked in the legal affairs group of large corporates including Konami, Toshiba and Nomura Real Estate. His wide range of legal experience has been in both the business and corporate levels where he worked on internal audits, audit committees, as well as being responsible for training employees in risk management and compliance. He is well experienced M&A, re-organization, and real estate from the legal and compliance side. Mr. Yajima holds a law degree from Chuo University as well as finishing graduate work at the Aoyama Gakuin University School of Law.
Mr. Handte has had a long career in Japanese real estate with experience in investment, financing and asset management. Mr. Handte was Head of BlackRock’s Real Estate business in Japan from 2015 to 2022 where he was responsible for all investments and managed all aspects of the business, including strategy, sourcing, and asset management for both core-plus and opportunistic mandates. BlackRock`s Asian Core-Plus Fund was the #1 ranked fund in its category in 2019, and the Japan assets produced 80% of the overall performance.
Mr. Handte began his real estate career in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group of Deutsche Bank in New York in 2001. He was transferred to Japan in 2004 to the CRE lending and securitization business. Mr. Handte then ran the non-recourse real estate lending team covering primarily investment funds at Shinsei Bank. Mr. Handte was responsible for the largest structured financing deal ever in Japan for the purchase of Pacific Century Place Building in 2006. During his tenure, he oversaw the origination and closing of over JPY 1.5 trillion (USD 15 billion) across 43 transactions. He also managed Shinsei Bank’s first non-recourse real estate loan securitization and the resolution and restructuring of all financings after the GFC.
Mr. Handte headed the structure finance business for GE Capital in Japan from 2011 to 2014. Mr. Handte ran his own advisory company from 2014 to 2015, and he originated an off-market, over USD 500 mm joint venture opportunity for Goldman Sachs with a Japanese private real estate company, for a redevelopment of an entire block in Dogenzaka, Shibuya.
Mr. Handte has lived and worked in Japan for over 25 years. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Princeton University and his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Christopher Handte
Chief Executive Officer
Managing Director
Shingo Okamoto
Mr. Okamoto joined Tokyo Trust Capital in August 2024 and overseas Tokyo Trust Capital`s inbound investment business including deal sourcing, acquisition, asset management and disposition. Prior to joining Tokyo Trust Capital, Mr. Okamoto was a head of real estate investment and asset management at Hulic Real Estate Investment Advisors Co., Ltd. for 6 years where he focused on sourcing, acquisition, asset management and disposition for private REITs and private funds in Japan. He also worked at Hulic Co., Ltd. from 2018 to 2020 in acquisitions and asset management. Mr. Okamoto started his career at a real estate development company, where he worked for 7 years. He subsequently worked at RISA Partners, Capmark Japan, Aetos Japan, where he was involved with sourcing, acquisition, underwriting, asset management and disposition for 10 years. Mr. Okamoto joined DBJ Asset Management Co. in 2015 and was involved in the project to launch a private REIT. Mr, Okamoto’s track record in real estate investment and asset management over the past 20 years includes the acquisition of properties worth a total of over JPY 450 billion and the management of over 100 projects.
Mr. Okamoto received Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Chiba University and is a licensed Real Estate Broker in Japan and ARES Certified Master.
Director
Kaori Furuta
Ms. Furuta joined TTC from Aozora Bank where she was a Senior Vice President in charge managing the bank’s real estate loan portfolio in North America, UK and Australia. The portfolio spanned all asset types including office, retail, hotel, residential and she managed a team which monitored and reported on loan and asset performance focusing on both the asset and market levels. Prior to Aozora Bank, she handled professional roles in asset management at LaSalle Investment Management, real estate non-recourse loan origination at Shinsei Bank and loan recovery control functions at Goldman Sachs Realty. Earlier in her career she worked at Singapore Development Bank and Cathay Pacific Airlines. Ms. Furuta is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin Womens University.
Director
Jiro Yajima
Mr.Yajima has worked in the legal affairs group of large corporates including Konami, Toshiba and Nomura Real Estate. His wide range of legal experience has been in both the business and corporate levels where he worked on internal audits, audit committees, as well as being responsible for training employees in risk management and compliance. He is well experienced M&A, re-organization, and real estate from the legal and compliance side. Mr. Yajima holds a law degree from Chuo University as well as finishing graduate work at the Aoyama Gakuin University School of Law.
Director
Koji Naoi
Koji Naoi started his career at Meiji-Yasuda Life Insurance where he was involved in control functions at HQ and also sales management. After switching to the accounting specialization he has worked at one of the largest steel manufacturers and large TSE listed firms handling accounting, financial management, tax affairs, internal control (J-SOX), internal auditing functions.
Most recently he was employed by a PE fund as CFO/board member of a portfolio company where he re-organized control functions and contributed to the creation. His role was completed with the successful exit of the PE fund, there after joining TTC in his current position.
Naoi-san is a graduate of Meiji University Law Department.