Shuji Tomikawa is President of Mitsui Fudosan Investment Advisors, Inc. (MFIA) and Group Officer at Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. Prior to his current posts he served as Managing Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Real Estate Solution Services Division of Mitsui Fudosan. He was one of the founding members of MFIA, which was established in October of 1997, where he served as Managing Director in charge of Client Relations. Between 1989 and 1995 he was Vice President at Mitsui Fudosan’s New York subsidiary, Mitsui Fudosan (New York), Inc. 

Tomikawa was Chairman of ULI Japan between 2016 and 2018, an adjunct lecturer at Keio University between 1998 and 2007, and a member of University of Cambridge’s Real Estate Finance Advisory Board between 2004 and 2007.

Tomikawa received a B.A. in Economics in 1983 from Keio University and an MBA in 1988 from Harvard Business School. 

Dan Klebes is a Managing Partner and Head of Japan at BentallGreenOak, based in Tokyo. He is President and Representative Director of BentallGreenOak K.K. 

Klebes has over 30 years of experience in the Japanese real estate market as an investor and investment banker. He began his career in 1987 at Goldman Sachs and during his 17 years at that firm founded and led Goldman Sachs’ Japanese Real Estate Principal Investment Area, acquired over $5 billion of Japanese real estate-related investments, and helped build Goldman Sachs’ property investment and asset management operations from startup to over 200 professionals. Immediately prior to joining GreenOak, a BentallGreenOak predecessor firm, Klebes led GTO Capital Management, an investment firm he founded in 2010 where he advised and co-invested with clients in the United States and Japan.  Prior to GTO Capital, he was chief investment officer for Japan at Aetos Capital Asia, where he led a Tokyo-based real estate team of over 100 professionals and grew assets under management by over $6 billion. 

Klebes holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University.  He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Urban Land Institute in Japan.  He has lived in Japan for more than 20 years and is fluent in Japanese. 

Atsushi Nakajima is Executive Vice President of Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. (MEC) in charge of the Corporate Planning Department and Sustainability Management & Promotion Department since April 2022. From April 2020 to March 2022, he served as Senior Executive Officer, overseeing commercial property development including office, logistics and accommodation facilities. Prior to that, he oversaw the international business of MEC from April 2018, and simultaneously served as Chairman of the board of directors of Rockefeller Group International, Inc. (RGII), a subsidiary of MEC. He worked in New York for RGII from April 2011 to March 2016, as Chief Executive Officer and President from March 2013 to March 2016 and as Chief Investment Officer and Vice President from April 2011 to March 2013.

Nakajima holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University of Tokyo.