User:Masui Toshio

Mr. Masui is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Orange Grove Capital Management, a specialist real estate investment firm. Based in Singapore, he oversees both the Singapore and Japan operations. Over the last 28 years, Mr. Masui has been involved in more than US$6 billion of real estate transactions. Prior to establishing Orange Grove Capital Management, Mr. Masui headed the Japan investment business for Colony Capital, a large global private equity group. As President of Japan and Representative Director, Mr. Masui was responsible for providing the strategic direction and new business development for the company’s interests and activities in Japan. From 1998 to 2001, he built Colony’s Japan platform as Executive Vice President and commenced investment in all areas such as non-performing loans, office, residential serviced apartment (developed Oakwood brand in Japan), retail, development, investment in banking business and corporate restructuring. From 2002 until 2011, he acted as Representative of Japan (President of the Japanese Operations) and ascended to Principal of Colony Capital. Mr. Masui sourced and led Colony’s acquisition of two major assets from Daiei, Inc., including the Fukuoka Dome baseball stadium and adjacent Sea Hawk Hotel and Resort. This transaction was the largest M&A deal of the day, and included a private rehabilitation process involving 41 banks. It was the largest corporate restructuring deal completed by a foreign investment company in Japan. Mr. Masui made a prescient move to sell all Daiei assets before the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The aggregate transaction amount exceeded JPY300 billion and achieved an IRR over 50%. Mr. Masui’s ability to source proprietary deals as well as his visionary leadership and relationships with prominent families and institutions, are well-recognized by the industry in Japan. Most notably, he disposed of Colony’s entire portfolio in Japan prior the Global Financial Crisis. Before joining Colony in 1998, Mr. Masui was a consultant for Lehman Brothers in Japan where he was responsible for deal origination. Prior to that, he was a partner in Interpac Marketing Group in the United States from 1984 until 1996 where he advised Japanese property investors on U.S. real estate acquisitions. He received a B.A. in Art from Pepperdine University and also studied at Gakushuin University and Pepperdine University with a major in Economics.