Aya Murakami (investor)

Aya Murakami
Born1988 (age 36–37)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKeio University
OccupationInvestor

Aya Murakami (村上 絢, Murakami Aya, born 1988) is a Japanese investor. She is the CEO of C&I Holdings (since 2015) and was also the representative director of the Murakami Family Foundation (村上財団) from 2016 to 2022.

Early life

Murakami was born in 1988, the elder daughter of Yoshiaki Murakami. After graduating from Keio University, Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science, she joined Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities.[1][2]

Career

In June 2015, Murakami was appointed CEO of C&I Holdings.[3] By August, she was also appointed the representative director of the NPO Charity Platform. On November 25, 2015, her home was forcibly investigated by the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission on suspicion of violating the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (market manipulation).[4] In August 2016, she became the representative director of the Murakami Family Foundation, a non-profit organization established by her father, Yoshiaki Murakami.[5] In September 2017, BuzzFeed News published her first parent-child interview with her father, Yoshiaki Murakami.[6]

In April 2018, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, which had compulsorily investigated Murakami's home in 2015, deferred indicting her on charges of violating the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (market manipulation).[7] In May 2018, she appeared as a panelist at the Milken Conference, the largest international economic conference in the United States, held in Los Angeles, and raised the issue of internal reserves that Japan is facing.[8] In January 2022, Murakami stepped down as representative director of the Murakami Family Foundation. She was succeeded by her younger sister Rei Murakami Frenzel.[9]

Personal life

Her company's philosophy is to realize corporate governance, and in order to provide advice from a medium to long-term perspective, C&I Holdings has stated that all of its operating funds are its own assets.[10] Murakami has two children.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ Murakami, Fuma (July 2, 2018). "村上世彰氏の娘、絢さんに聞くNPO支援の理由" [Reasons for supporting NPOs from Yoshiaki Murakami's daughter, Aya] (in Japanese). The Nikkei.
  2. ^ "待機児童の陰に隠れたもう1つの保育園問題、障害児保育って？". ママスタセレクト. 2016-06-28. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  3. ^ "C&IホールディングスCEO 村上 絢 私には村上の意地がある". 政経電論. 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  4. ^ "村上元代表を強制調査 アパレル株の株価操作の疑い". 日本経済新聞電子版. 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  5. ^ "より優しく、よりしなやかな日本社会を目指して 財団概要 プロフィール紹介". 村上財団. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  6. ^ "日本を揺るがした投資家が寄付の世界へ 事件と震災が変えた村上世彰のいま". BuzzFeed (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  7. ^ INC., SANKEI DIGITAL (2018-04-19). "村上世彰氏らの刑事告発断念 相場操縦「起訴見込めず」 証券監視委". 産経ニュース (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  8. ^ "Speaker's Biography". Milken Foundation. Archived from the original on June 2, 2018.
  9. ^ "一般財団法人村上財団の代表理事に、投資家 村上世彰の次女 村上玲が就任" (in Japanese). Murakami Family Foundation. February 11, 2023. Archived from the original on June 7, 2023.
  10. ^ "【ビジネスの裏側】新村上ファンドの第２ラウンド 村上絢氏に父譲りの強面 黒田電気の「捏造」追及で株価上昇？！（1/4ページ） - 産経WEST". 産経WEST. 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  11. ^ 富美, 村上. "村上世彰氏の娘、絢さんに聞くNPO支援の理由 「お金が循環する社会になれば、日本はもっと良くなる」". 日経ビジネスオンライン (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 20, 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-18.