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FIA Japan Elects 2022 Board Members, Appoints Officers


【May 25, 2022 - Tokyo】The Futures Industry Association Japan (FIA Japan), the leading financial industry association in Tokyo with a focus on derivatives, held its 34th Annual General Meeting on May 25, and elected 16 Board Members for FY2022. Following the AGM, the board members elected their new Officers for FY2022.


Officers / Board Members Chairman and Representative Director, Executive Committee Member Richard Clairmont - Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director,

ABN AMRO Clearing Tokyo Co., Ltd.

Vice Chairman and Representative Director, Executive Committee Member Michael Ross - Head of Sales, Itiviti Japan K.K. - A Broadridge company

President and Representative Director, Executive Committee Member Koichiro Ohashi - Partner, Greenberg Traurig Tokyo Law Offices

Vice President, Executive Committee Member Naoaki Kishida - Executive Director, Head of F&O Execution Sales Asia Pacific,

Head of F&O and OTC Clearing Japan, JP Morgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd.

Vice President, Executive Committee Member Shun Yanagisawa – Director, Head of Futures, Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage,

Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.

Treasurer, Executive Committee Member Takashi Okawara - Member of the Board of Directors, Chief Risk Officer,

Societe Generale Securities Japan Limited

Other Board Members Ramir Cimafranca (New director) – Executive Officer, FX CFD Division, Rakuten Securities, Inc.

Bill Herder (Executive Committee Member) - Head of Asia Pacific, Futures Industry Association

Hiroyasu Ichimoto (New director) – Director & Senior Executive Officer of Osaka Exchange, Inc. and Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc.

Izumi Kazuhara - Executive Director, Head of Japan, CME Group


Walter Lukken - President and CEO, Futures Industry Association

Shinji Matsushita (New director) – Managing Director, Global Markets, Operations Dept., Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd.

Kaori Nakajo (New director) – Vice President, Prime Services, Futures Sales, Equities, Global Markets Division, Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Tomiyasu -Managing Director, Head of FID Risk Asia, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.

Phuong Trinh - Head of APAC Legal & Compliance, Jump Trading Pacific Pte. Ltd.

Gerben van Veldhuijsen - Head of Corporate Strategy, Optiver Australia Pty Ltd.


Auditor Nagayoshi Miyata

Advisors to the Board Yasuo Mogi - FIA Senior Advisor and Coordinator-Japan

Hiroyuki Bob Takai – Executive Advisor, Japan Market, EEX Group

Russell Beattie (New advisor) - Managing Director, Head of APAC, CME Group

Chika Nakamura (New advisor) - Executive Director, Head of Commercial,

ABN AMRO Clearing Tokyo Co., Ltd.

Advisors to Executive Committee Mitch R. Fulscher - FIA Japan Chairman Emeritus

Yasuo Mogi - FIA Senior Advisor and Coordinator-Japan

Russell Beattie (New advisor) - Managing Director, Head of APAC, CME Group


Chief of Staff Peter Jaeger


For further details, please contact: Futures Industry Association Japan c/o Greenberg Traurig Tokyo Law Offices 21F Meiji Yasuda Seimei Bldg. 1-1, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Contact: Ms. Atsuko Ishikawa Email: ishikawa@fiajapan.org Phone: 03-4510-2222

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