Kazuhiro Ono

Mr. Kazuhiro Ono is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Pilgrim Partners (Asia) Pte Ltd.
Mr. Ono started his career in foreign exchange trading and the interest rate derivative business at Bankers Trust Co., Tokyo.
He later moved to Deutsche Bank, Tokyo where he became the head of banking book investment.
After several years at Deutsche Bank, he established Replus inc.
(which underwent a successful initial public offering on Tokyo Stock Exchange) as one of the founding management members.
The company focused on arbitrage investment strategy by conversion / renovation of office buildings in Japan to increase the investment value of properties.
The strategy included setting up J-REIT to leverage the business expansion.
After Replus, he went back to the financial industry as General Manager of Structured Credit business at Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank, taking care of credit derivatives, REIT investment, corporate credit risk evaluation and business value evaluation teams.
In March 2013, he founded and became the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Glaux Investment Pte.
Ltd., which engaged in advising cross-border merger and acquisition and private equity investments in Asia, which focuses on boutique investment bank services, especially in the PE investment area, including start-ups and real estate deals.
In 2018, he joined the Zise Capital as a founding partner.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Law from Tokyo University.