Masamoto Yashiro
{{short description|Japanese businessman (born 1929)}}
{{nihongo|Masamoto Yashiro|八城 政基|extra=born February 14, 1929 in Shinagawa, Tokyo}} is a Japanese businessman who is chairman and CEO of Shinsei Bank and a director of China Construction Bank.
He attended Kyoto University, graduating with a degree in law, and graduate school at the University of Tokyo. He joined Standard Vacuum Oil Company in 1958 and became a director of Esso Petroleum in 1964. He was appointed Japan chairman of Citibank in 1989.
In 1999, he left Citibank to head the Ripplewood-backed effort to acquire the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan. In 2000, he was appointed chairman and CEO of the newly acquired and renamed Shinsei Bank. In 2004 he was also appointed as a director of China Construction Bank. He resigned as CEO of Shinsei in 2005 and as chairman in 2006, but returned as chairman and CEO in 2008.
References
- {{cite news |url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_27/b3739070.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010808021048/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_27/b3739070.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 8, 2001 |title=Masamoto Yashiro |date=2001-07-02 |accessdate=2008-04-26 |publisher=BusinessWeek}}
- {{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/asia/2005/heroes/masamoto_yashiro.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051022112308/http://www.time.com/time/asia/2005/heroes/masamoto_yashiro.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 22, 2005 |title=Masamoto Yashiro |publisher=TIMEasia Magazine |date=2005-10-03 |accessdate=2008-04-26 |first=Jim |last=Frederick}}
External links
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- {{cite news |url=http://www.fasol.com/2013/10/19/masamoto-yashiro/ |title="In truth, why Japanese management is not global? What should we do?" (talk by Masamoto Yashiro at The University of Tokyo on October 19, 2013) |publisher=Gerhard Fasol |date=2013-10-20 |accessdate=2013-10-20 |first=Gerhard |last=Fasol}}
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Category:Japanese businesspeople
Category:People from Shinagawa
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
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