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Toshinobu Kasai joined JLL as country head of Japan in 2012.
Since then, he has greatly expanded the size of JLL’s business, working closely with investors and large Japanese companies. Backed by his strong background in finance, he has also led several merger-and-acquisition deals, which have been a key contributor to JLL’s pace of growth in Japan.
With over 30 years in the financial industry, Toshinobu previously worked at Goldman Sachs, where he led the principal investment business for Japanese real estate. Under his charge, the business unit grew to be one of Japan’s largest alternative-asset investors.
His career initially started at major financial firm, Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd, where Toshinobu covered various parts of the business – from sales to equity underwriting – in both Japan and London.
An economics graduate from Hitotsubashi University, Toshinobu also achieved a master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University.
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