MetLife, has announced it has hired a new business development Director into the Institutional Client Group of MetLife Investment Management Japan.
Based in Tokyo Maya Kiyokawa joins the firm with immediate effect and will lead MetLife Investment Management's (MIM) business development in Japan.
Prior to joining MetLife, Kiyokawa served as director of the alternative product sales department in Japan for Teneo Partners.
Prior to that, she served as a senior consultant at Osborne Incorporated. She has also held senior roles at Deutsche Asset Management (Japan) Limited and Fidelity Investments Japan Limited in senior client services roles.
In the new role Kiyokawa will build partnerships with retirement funds, insurance companies, government funds and trust banks to raise MetLife’s profile and visibility in Japan.
Asia A Vital Market
Her experience will be leveraged to build relationships in private debt and equity markets for real estate, infrastructure and corporate private placement bonds.
«Maya is an excellent addition to the team and will be an asset to MetLife as we grow MIM’s institutional asset management business in Asia,» said Joseph Pollaro, Chief Operating Officer of MIM.
MIM is MetLife’s institutional investment management business. MIM is responsible for investments in a range of asset sectors, including corporate and infrastructure private placement debt and real estate equity.
