Board of Directors

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.

Takashi Oyagi is a founding member of Monex, Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Monex Group, Inc. Mr. Oyagi also serves on Monex’s Board of Directors. He is also a Director and the Chief Strategic Officer of TradeStation Group, Inc. as well as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of 3iQ Digital Holdings Inc. He previously served as a Director in the Global Markets Division of Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., in New York, and prior to that was in the Asian Special Situation Group at Goldman Sachs (Japan) Ltd. Mr. Oyagi began his career in finance at Bank of Japan. He has a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago.

Yo Nakagawa is a Senior Executive Director of Monex Group, Inc., and a Director of Monex International Limited (Hong Kong). He also serves as an Expert Director of Coincheck, Inc., and as a Director at Mimura Strategic Partners and as the Chief Operating Officer at Fujimaki Japan. Mr. Nakagawa began his career at JP Morgan. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Keio University.

Allerd Derk Stikker is an advisor of BXR Group and is a Director of a number of portfolio companies of BXR Group. He joined BXR Group in 2008, initially as Chief Financial Officer of its Real Estate division. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer and then the Chief Executive Officer of BXR Group. Mr. Stikker started his career as a banking consultant in the United States and became the Chief Financial Officer of IMC, a Dutch financial institution, after returning to Europe. Mr. Stikker holds an MBA and a B.A. in Business Administration from George Washington University.

David Burg is the Global Group Head of Cyber and Digital Trust at Kroll, LLC. Mr. Burg previously worked at Ernst & Young LLP as Principal and Americas Cyber Leader. Prior to that, he served in a variety of positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in the United States, including Principal and Global Cyber Security Leader and Principal and U.S. and Global Advisory Cyber Leader. Mr. Burg started his career as Project Specialist to Assistance Director of Financial Systems at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Mr. Burg holds an MBA from William and Mary – Raymond A. Mason School of Business and a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Toshihiko Katsuya served as President & CEO at Aruhi Corporation (currently SBI Aruhi Corporation), a leading Japanese mortgage bank listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He worked for Monex Beans Holdings, Inc. (currently Monex Group, Inc.) for 15 years in various positions including President of Monex FX, Inc. President of Monex Securities, COO of Monex Group, Inc., President of Coincheck, Inc. and CFO of Monex Group, Inc.. Previously, he worked for The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd. (currently MUFG Bank, Ltd.) for 17 years where he held various positions, including senior manager of Corporate Planning Division and VP of Investment Banking Division for the Americas. He assumed the positions of Director of Financial Futures Association of Japan and Director of Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association in 2019. Mr. Katsuya holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo.

Yuri Suzuki is a senior partner at the Tokyo office of the Japanese law firm, Atsumi & Sakai. Ms. Suzuki is an outside director at Coincheck, Inc., and an audit & supervisory board member at both Yayoi Co., Ltd. and CAMPFIRE, Inc. She also serves as an audit & supervisory board member at FinCity.Tokyo, the Organization of Global Financial City Tokyo. Ms. Suzuki served as a visiting attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and as a director of the Japan Institute of Life Insurance. She is a member of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and the Daini Tokyo Bar Association. Ms. Suzuki has an LLM in Corporation Law from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Waseda University.

Jessica Sinyin Tan is on the strategy and consumer protection committee of PingAn Bank. She was with PingAn Group for 11 years and was PingAn Group co-CEO and Executive Director leading its insurance, digital banking, healthcare, and technology businesses. She has also served on the related party transactions and consumer protection committee of PingAn Group. Before that, Ms. Tan was a global Partner at McKinsey & Company, working in its U.S. and Asia offices for 13 years. She is currently on several government advisory committees, including the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab (for sustainable investments), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), as well as three Singapore non-profit boards (Singapore pensions, healthcare, and elderly care). Ms. Tan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, as well as two Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics.