Shigeki Kimura

President & CEO, Stimulus Inc.

Mr. Kimura had been the Managing Executive Officer and Global Head of Industry Finance Group of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) since June 2013 until June 2017.　Under his leadership, JBIC’s Industry Finance Group provided a record-breaking \ 5 trillion ($ 45 billion) in financing from FY 2013 to FY 2016 for more than 870 overseas business projects by Japanese companies. During that period, he closed unprecedented deals for the Bank which include M&A Financing for Japanese companies’ cross-border M&As, project financing, equity financing, private equity investments, and financing for Japanese SMEs’ overseas investments.

Mr. Kimura resigned from JBIC at the end of June 2017 and founded Stimulus. Inc., a firm that provides Japanese/non-Japanese companies with senior advisory services.

Prior to joining JBIC, Mr. Kimura held various senior positions at Ministry of Finance, Cabinet Secretariat and international financial institutions covering both finance and national security issues. His responsibilities and achievements include;

• MOF:
  • Kimura lead the ministry’s FX market operation team and made successful FX market interventions which corrected the yen’s excessive appreciation against dollar.
  • He also played a pivotal role in the ministry’s policy measures to deal with the Asian Financial Crisis..
  • He was the director in charge of Japan’s economic sanction measures against such countries as North Korea and Iran.

• Cabinet Secretariat:
  • He led the Government’s special task force to establish a new government ministry from the scratch and successfully founded Consumer Affairs Agency.
  • He also played a leading role in another task force of the government to solve the abduction problem by North Korea.

Mr. Kimura graduated from the Law Faculty of Tokyo University. He has passed the National Bar Examination and acquired an approval by Minister of Justice to be registered as an attorney at law.