Lynn Akashi

Lynn is a Founding Partner of Zetland Capital, leading the firm’s growth and change initiatives to bring about our long-term goals and vision.
She believes we must all live our values, with a leadership style that is grounded in inclusion, transparency and clarity of purpose.
Lynn comes to Zetland with over 20-years of experience in both public and private markets.
She joined the founding team of Salomon Smith Barney’s proprietary Special Situations and Distressed desk in New York, including the expansion of the business to Tokyo at the back-end of the 90s.
Lynn was then asked to join Citigroup’s nascent London Leverage Finance team building both the primary markets across Europe and secondary loan sales and trading businesses.
Lynn is a graduate of Wellesley College in Economics and Political Science.