ARK Appoints SoftBank Vision Fund Founding Member Yosuke Sasaki as Outside Director
ARK is recruiting investment-side experience from the SoftBank orbit to push its land-based aquaculture systems toward overseas markets, where the company says it needs capital and partnership reach it does not currently have.
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ARK, a Hiratsuka-based company developing modular closed recirculating aquaculture systems, has appointed Yosuke Sasaki as an outside director. Sasaki is representative director of Soleil Partners and was a founding member of the SoftBank Vision Fund, where he served as managing partner of its London office. ARK says the appointment is meant to strengthen its global business strategy, capital strategy, and governance as it seeks to deploy its systems overseas.
Sasaki's background is on the investment side: fundraising, M&A, and management support at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (now MUFG Bank) and SoftBank Group, then a founding role at the SoftBank Vision Fund, where he ran its London office as managing partner and served as co-representative of the Tokyo office. He later founded Soleil Partners, a consulting firm working from Tokyo, London, and Dubai. ARK lists three intended effects from the appointment: country-specific business strategy built on its UK and Malaysia bases, a stronger capital strategy and partnerships, and board-level governance work.
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