Akira Homma

Akira Homma has been in the markets since 1984, with experience in investment management and financial services on both the buy side and the sell side, in Japan and in Europe. He began as an equity analyst and then quantitative analyst at Kokusai Securities (now Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities), managed Asian equity portfolios at Lombard Odier International Portfolio Management in London and global multi-strategy funds at Gesindex, and served as Senior Quantitative Analyst at Dow Jones Japan. He went on to hold Head of Research and global business development roles at several Tokyo securities houses, and is now Head of Finance at Zero Watt Power, an independent power producer and trading company, where he is building capability in currency and energy markets. He also serves on the board of the CMT Association, the first director from Japan.