Kazunori Ozaki
Venture Partner
TransLink Capital

Kazunori is Chairman & CEO of Ant Capital Partners, one of the fastest growing private equity firms in Japan. Before Ant Capital, he was the Senior Vice President of GE Capital Japan where he led private equity investments in nine companies with a total value of 4 billion yen. Kazunori acted as an outside director for four of these companies and led a joint business initiative with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, establishing a 20 billion yen fund for Management Buy-Outs (MBO).

He joined JAFCO Co., Ltd. in 1984 and worked as a representative of the London Office, Director of Overseas Investments, and Director of the MBO Team. He led investments of approximately 11 billion yen in 61 companies. In 1998, he completed two of the first MBO deals in Japan.

Kazunori started his career at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) in 1972 and worked as a representative at the U.A.E. office with the Machinery Export Planning Division.

Kazunori holds a B.S. degree from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.