Yoshitaka Kitao, SBI Holdings, Inc., The Representative Director CEO

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		Mr. YOSHITAKA KITAO was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1951, Japan. His great-grandfather BOKKOU KITAO was a master of the Confucianism of Japan in the Edo period. Mr. KITAO studied economics at Keio University in Japan and the British University of Cambridge. Firstly graduated from Keio University, he found a work at Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd. in Japan, and then entered the University of Cambridge. After he had served as the Director of Nomura Enterprise Information Co., Ltd. in 1991 and the head of the corporate division of Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd. in 1992, he joined the SOFTBANK CORP., one of the top 500 in the world, becoming the Man Friday of Masayoshi Son, and built the giant SOFTBANK group empire. In 1999, he set up SBI Holdings, Inc. and assumed the post of CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and representative Director of the E-Commerce Company and other 11 companies till now. Currently, the SBI Holdings led by YOSHITAKA KITAO governs over 150 enterprises, among which 10 have already listed overseas. Its business scope covers Network Information Service, e-commerce, IT software development, real estate, housing credit, life insurance, M&A, financial leasing, enterprise reorganization, venture capital investment, etc. In recent years, SBI Holdings is hotly chased and catching eyes in Japan. Particularly YOSHITAKA KITAO himself, he has made great achievements in the development of financial derivative services, capital operation, a high-tech industry and exploration of Growth　Enterprise Market etc., whose progresses helped to make SBI Holdings a giant Japanese Online Securities. The SBI Holdings also sets up an electronic bank with The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd and it is pushing forward to build up an integrated financial information empire. YOSHITAKA KITAO is regarded as an outstanding Confucian businessman, who is famous for conquering the world with the Analects of Confucius and abacus, in Japan. He pursues the management principle of faith, morality and humanity, insists on the idea of people-oriented and customer first, focuses on innovation, aspires for great ambition, and emphasizes on establishing and maintaining the competitive advantage by continuously setting up new management pattern. Representative works of YOSHITAKA KITAO: Acquire Unimaginable Strength from Ancient Books of China, Talents Cultivation, Management of Value Creation, Challenges of Electronic Finance, Why People Work, Unchanged Management, Growing Management, Continuously Evolving Management, etc.