Atsushi Saito, CFA

Associate Portfolio Manager

Atsushi joined Cedar Street in 2017 and became a partner in 2020. Atsushi's focus is on Japanese equity and corporate governance engagement opportunities including improvements in Investor Relations functions and capital structure to help unlock intrinsic value. Atsushi also covers global companies in various sectors as a generalist and has through the years become highly engaged in the Spanish and Italian capital markets.

Prior to Cedar Street, Atsushi was an intern at Unison Capital, a Tokyo-based private equity firm and M&A and TMT teams of Morgan Stanley. Prior to MBA, Atsushi worked on real asset investments and aircraft marketing in Tokyo and Seattle at Sojitz Corporation, a Japanese trading house.

Atsushi also worked in Aerospace Department at Sojitz Corporation, a Japanese trading house, where he focused on business development and commercial aircraft investments. He also worked at its Seattle branch and on secondment as a business analyst at Boeing.

Atsushi has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Keio University in Japan. He also studied at HEC Paris as an exchange student.