Jeff Matsuda

Jeff Matsuda is Japan Program Director for 500 Global, where he oversees all local programming and market development, and contributes to the formulation of strategy for the Japanese market. He has over 20 years of experience across multiple industries, having worked in management consulting (Accenture), trading interest rates and managing teams at global investment banks (Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, UBS), heading departments as large as 300 across geographies at fast-scaling global ventures (OYO, Delivery Hero), co-founding startups for Rocket Internet, and serving as country manager for emerging startups (qlub, Intellect). Jeff holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in International Finance and Business from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.