{"id":50803,"date":"2024-07-22T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=50803"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:21:28","slug":"34th-u-s-japan-council-business-advisory-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/events\/34th-u-s-japan-council-business-advisory-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"34th U.S.-Japan Council Business Advisory Board Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-560x315.png 560w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-493x277.png 493w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-915x515.png 915w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1-287x161.png 287w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-BAB-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div style=\"background-color: #d9edf7; color: #31708f; border-left-color: #31708f; \" class=\"ub-styled-box ub-notification-box wp-block-ub-styled-box\" id=\"ub-styled-box-53baaeb7-c9b2-45a0-983f-1615a36bbf2c\">\n<p id=\"ub-styled-box-notification-content-9a12ff81-2dff-4910-9d4a-58e4ca878639\"><strong><em>Date: <\/em><\/strong>September 4, 2024<strong><em><br>Time: <\/em><\/strong>6:30pm \u2013 8:30pm (JT)<strong><em><br>Location: <\/em><\/strong>Tokyo, Japan<br><strong><em>Cost<\/em><\/strong>: 10,000 yen<em><br><strong>Registration:<\/strong><\/em> Please note that this is a private event. USJC Members and Members of the Business Advisory Board are allowed to attend. For more information, please contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bab@usjapancouncil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bab@usjapancouncil.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Business Advisory Board (BAB) provides a platform based in Japan to integrate business leaders from diverse fields including government, academic and non-profit sectors to expand people-to-people connections to strengthen ties between the United States and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event will include a keynote speech and networking dinner. We are honored to welcome Investment Committee Chair of U.S.-Japan Council&nbsp;Mark Okada (JALD &#8217;23), Co-Founder and CEO of Sycamore Tree Capital Partners L.P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Speaker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Okada (JALD &#8217;23)<br><\/strong><em>Co-Founder &amp; Chief Executive Officer, Sycamore Tree Capital Partners L.P.<br>Investment Committee Chair, U.S.-Japan Council<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-Headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50938\" style=\"width:344px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-Headshot-1.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-Headshot-1-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mark-Okada-Headshot-1-287x349.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mr. Mark Okada is Co-Founder and CEO of Sycamore Tree Capital Partners L.P., a specialist asset management firm with private and alternative credit investment expertise. Sycamore Tree was established in 2020 and manages $2.5 billion across bank loans, high yield bonds, structured credit, and special situations. With more than 35 years of experience in capital markets, Mr. Okada is widely regarded as an industry innovator in alternative credit investing. Investing in bank loans since 1987, he is a pioneer in the development of the bank loan market. He was involved in structuring one of the industry\u2019s first non-bank collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Okada is devoted to a number of philanthropic and civic causes with a particular focus on Japanese American relations, education, health and faith-based service. He is a board member and investment committee Chair at the U.S.-Japan Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, Mr. Okada served as a delegate in the Japanese American Leadership Delegation program. He is a trustee at the Japanese American National Museum. Mr. Okada also serves as board chairman for Education Is Freedom, the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society and Karisopolis, LLC. He is a board governor and investment committee member at The Dallas Foundation and on the board of directors at NexBank Capital, Inc., a Dallas-based financial services company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a regular guest on Bloomberg Television and CNBC and is frequently quoted in the financial and business press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Okada received a B.A. in both economics and psychology, cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (\u201cCFA\u201d) charterholder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Advisory Board (BAB) provides a platform based in Japan to integrate business leaders from diverse fields including government, academic and non-profit sectors to expand people-to-people connections to strengthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"event-venue":[],"event-tag":[],"class_list":["post-50803","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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