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our-team

We are first and foremost experienced investors and entrepreneurs with a proven track record of establishing, growing and investing in successful and highly profitable private companies across a wide range of sectors, having built several high growth multi-national enterprises.

Our team is multi-disciplinary with great breadth of expertise - corporate governance, finance, sales and operations etc.

We have a strong track record in institutional asset management and have managed money for some of the largest institutional investors in the world. 

Our team is focused, energetic and passionate about what we do.
 

kenji steven

  • Kenji has been an entrepreneur, investor and innovator for the last fifteen years having co-founded several successful companies including Infiniti Capital (institutional investment management firm), Global Fund Exchange Group (now an alternative energy investment firm), Clearwater Capital LP (pension fund management), Stirling Macguire Asset Management and NZ Capital Strategies. 
     
    He has a diverse skill set spanning business development, investment management, operations and marketing. 
     
    Kenji has a BA from the University of Canterbury with a double major in Business Administration and Japanese Language.
     
    Specialities

    Entrepreneurship, investment management, problem solving, mergers and acquisitions, designing financial products, writing and making things happen. 

kenji.steven@nzcapstrat.com
+64-29-977-8899

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james-murray

  • James is a financial industry entrepreneur and specialist management consultant with 23 years experience in Japan, South East Asia and Oceania. 
     
    A fluent Japanese speaker, James has structured cross border transactions between Japanese and foreign corporations and with ultra high net worth individuals through the private Family Office service he founded to serve a number of South-East Asian based clients.
     
    In his management consulting James has primarily focused on the areas of banking advisory, compliance, investment advisory, licensing, M&A, multi-jurisdictional corporate structuring, professional directorship and regulatory application and approval.
     
    In his Financial Services entrepreneurship James has founded Asiapac Strategies Limited (private family office) and co-founded Stirling Macguire Asset Management (private wealth management),  NZ Capital Strategies (boutique investment management) and the Evergreen Retirement Trust (superannuation scheme). James has also served as a director with a number of investment firms.
     

james.murray@nzcapstrat.com
+852-6407-2945
+81-90-2560-0449

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Takeshi Shiratori

  • Takeshi Shiratori is Head of Japan for NZ Capital Strategies Ltd. He has been working in financial institutions for 24 years, 10 of those spent in Japan, 8 of those in USA, and 6 of those in NZ.

    Before joining NZ Capital Strategies, he worked with Infiniti Capital as Global Head of Institutional Relationships. Prior to joining Infiniti Capital, he worked with Japan Alternative Investment (JAI) as General Manager. Prior to joining JAI, he worked for Nikko Securities in Tokyo for 10 years as Senior Manager of Alternative Investment Products Division and Equity Research Marketing Division, in NY for 5 years as engaging U.S. equities trading desk, and in Chicago for 3 years as engaging in Euro dollar Futures & Options desk in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

    He is Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan (CMA)


takeshi.shiratori@nzcapstrat.com

skype:takeshi.shiratori
+81-50-5532-5717
+81-80-3488-8376

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  • Julian Carver is an entrepreneur and consultant with a background in Internet startups.  He has significant experience in the New Zealand scientific research sector, and consults to research institutes, Government ministries and funding agencies on policy, technology transfer, commercialisation, and eResearch. Julian is a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Science & Innovation’s Futurewatch group, and helps the NZ Government identify emerging trends in information technology, cleantech, and life sciences.

     


julian.carver@nzcapstrat.com

skype:julian.carver
M: +64-21-684-147

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