Ichigo Asset Management, Ltd. is regulated by the Japanese Ministry of Finance and Financial Services Agency, and was a day-one signatory of Japan's Stewardship Code. We are a member of the Japan Investment Advisers Association and a corporate member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan. A brief biography of Scott Callon, the Chief Executive Officer, follows.
Scott Callon
Chief Executive Officer
On behalf of Ichigo, Callon is currently Chairman of Ichigo (2337), a Japanese sustainable infrastructure company that is the sponsor of Ichigo Office REIT (8975), Ichigo Hotel REIT (3463), and Ichigo Green (9282) and the operator of over sixty solar and wind power plants across Japan. In addition, he is Chairman & CEO of Japan Display (JDI - 6740), created via the merger of Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba's global display technology businesses.
Callon has served on a number of Japanese government bodies, including the Financial Services Agency (FSA) Council of Experts that drafted Japan’s Corporate Governance Code and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Competitiveness and Incentive Structures for Sustainable Growth Project (“Ito Review”). From 2012 to 2020, he was one of three judges for the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s annual Corporate Value Improvement Award, awarded to Japan’s top company in corporate value creation.
Previously, Head of Equities, Morgan Stanley Japan; Chairman of the Foreign Securities Council of the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA); and Chief Executive Officer of PCA Asset Management of the UK Prudential Group.
Author of Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993, winner of the Arisawa Prize.
A.B., Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1986 (summa cum laude) and Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University.
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