Executive Team

Oki Matsumoto is the Executive Chairman of Coincheck Group. He also is the founder of Monex, and Chairman of the Board and the Representative Executive Officer of Monex Group, Inc., and currently serves as an outside director of Mastercard, Incorporated and a Board member emeritus of Human Rights Watch. He is also an Executive director of Coincheck, Inc. and 3iQ Digital Holdings Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TradeStation Group, Inc., each a subsidiary of Monex. Mr. Matsumoto has served as an outside director of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and as a former member, Financial Counsel to the Prime Minister of Japan. He began his career at Salomon Brothers, then joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he held several leadership positions, including General Partner before he founded Monex, Inc., a Japanese online brokerage firm, in 1999. Mr. Matsumoto has a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo.

Gary A. Simanson is an executive director of Coincheck Group, N.V. and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Simanson was President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV, Inc. (NASDAQ: THCP) from January 2021 until the consummation of its business combination with Coincheck Group, N.V. in December 2024. From June 2020 until December 2023, he was Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thunder Bridge Capital Partners III, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBCP). He was Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thunder Bridge Acquisition II, Ltd. (NASDAQ: THBR) from February 2019 until June 2021, when it consummated its initial business combination with indie Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ: INDI). From 2018 to 2019 he was Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thunder Bridge Acquisition, Ltd. (NASDAQ: TBRG), which in July 2019 consummated its initial business combination with Repay Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: RPAY), an omnichannel payments technology provider. Mr. Simanson is founder of Thunder Bridge Capital, LLC, a private investment vehicle, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since 2017. He has been Managing Director of First Capital Group, L.L.C., an investment banking advisory firm specializing in the financial services industry, bank mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, capital raising and enterprise risk management, since 1997. He was Founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategic Officer of Community Bankers Trust Corporation, a $1.2 billion in assets bank holding company for Essex Bank (NASDAQ NMS “ESXB”) and previously served as its President, Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer, and as a Director since its inception in 2005 to 2011, overseeing its public offering in 2006 as a special purpose acquisition company, Community Bankers Acquisition Corp, its bank acquisitions and shareholder reformulation in 2008, and its acquisitions of failed banks from the FDIC in 2008 and 2009. Mr. Simanson has served in various other roles as an executive officer, board member and adviser in regulated industries including commercial banking, investment banking and financial services. He began his career as an attorney specializing in the securities, bank regulatory and bank merger and acquisition areas at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, and also served as in-house counsel for a publicly-traded bank holding company. Mr. Simanson is licensed (inactive) to practice law in the states of New York, Colorado and Tennessee. Mr. Simanson received his B.A. degree, majoring in Economics, from George Washington University. He earned his M.B.A., majoring in Finance, from George Washington University and holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Satoshi Hasuo is Chief Operating Officer of Coincheck Group N.V. and Representative Director & President of Coincheck, Inc., a leading crypto exchange in Japan. He started his career at The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan in 1993. After he worked for UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Securities Co., Ltd., he joined Monex Group, Inc. (former name: Monex Beans Holdings, Inc.) in May 2005 where he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in October 2017. In November 2019, he joined Coincheck Inc, and was appointed as Representative Director & President. In June 2024, he was named Chairman, Representative Director& Executive Officer to Coincheck, Inc. (present), and Executive Officer to Monex Group, Inc (present)

Jason Sandberg is the Chief Financial Officer of Coincheck Group N.V., and has been a Managing Director at Thunder Bridge Capital, LLC. At Thunder Bridge Capital, LLC, he is primarily responsible for the evaluation and analysis of equity investment opportunities for the Thunder Bridge platform as well as providing transaction support from a regulatory, compliance and due diligence perspective for merger candidates. Mr. Sandberg previously worked as a Partner with Grant Thornton, LLP from 2013 through 2021. He served as an Audit Partner and was the Atlantic Coast Financial Services Practice leader. He also spent time as a Partner in the Firm’s National Professional Standards Group, focused on risk management for the firm’s high-profile public and private clients. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting from the University of Delaware.