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Takumi Yura is a Co-Founder of Fullerene. He is based in Tokyo.
Prior to founding Fullerene, Mr. Yura worked in The Carlyle Group. While at Carlyle, he served as an Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) of AOI TYO Holdings (currently KANAMEL) and as an External Auditor of Iwasaki Electric.
Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, Mr. Yura worked at McKinsey & Company, where he led enterprise-wide transformation projects in the manufacturing sector. Prior to that, he worked in financial product development at Deutsche Securities.

Takuma Sakamoto is a Co-Founder of Fullerene. He is based in Tokyo.
Prior to founding Fullerene, Mr. Sakamoto worked in The Carlyle Group. While at Carlyle, he served as an External Auditor of Kokusai Kogyo and TOTOKU, and was involved with AutoForm.
Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, Mr. Sakamoto worked at Merrill Lynch Japan Securities (currently BofA Securities), where he was engaged in M&A advisory and capital markets transactions within the investment banking division.

Satoshi Ohuchi graduated from the University of Tokyo and is a Visiting Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo.
After joining the Ministry of Finance in 1989, he served as Head of the Tax Policy Support Unit at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2007, Director of the Government Debt Management Division of the Financial Bureau of the Ministry of Finance in 2012, Deputy Director-General of the Minister’s Secretariat of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (in charge of the Manufacturing Industries Bureau and employment and human resources) in 2018, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the Headquarters for the World Expo 2025 within the Cabinet Secretariat, concurrently serving as Cabinet Councillor, in 2020. Since 2021, he has served as Director of Japan Investment Corporation and Director of INCJ, Ltd.