Kathy Mitsuko Matsui is a Co-Founder and General Partner of MPower Partners, Japan’s first ESG-focused global venture capital fund. She was the former vice chair of Goldman Sachs Japan, co-head of Macro Research in Asia and chief Japan equity strategist. Kathy was ranked No. 1 in Japan Equity Strategy by Institutional Investor multiple times. Her "Womenomics" research spurred the Japanese government to promote gender diversity as part of the nation's economic growth strategy. She was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the "10 Women to Watch in Asia" and was also named to Bloomberg Markets magazine’s “50 Most Influential” list in 2014.Kathy was previously chief Japan strategist for Barclays de Zoete Wedd Securities and worked at the Export-Import Bank of Japan’s Washington, DC office. She was a policy commentator for Japan’s Cabinet Office and has served on numerous Japanese government committees aimed at promoting gender diversity. Kathy serves as an external board director of Fast Retailing Inc., adjunct professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Management, co-chair of the Board of the US-Japan Council, board member of the Asian University for Women (AUW) Support Foundation, director of the Fast Retailing Foundation, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Nature Conservancy Asia Pacific Council, Yamauchi Foundation, the Bretton Woods Committee Advisory Council, Keizai Doyukai, the Japan Society Fund Against Breast Cancer, and the Mori Arts Museum Board of Trustees. She previously served as an external board director for Paidy. In 2020, she published a best-selling Japanese book entitled "How to Nurture Female Employees."Kathy earned an AB, magna cum laude, in Social Studies from Harvard University and an MA from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. She conducted research on Japanese foreign policy at Kobe University Graduate School on a Rotary Scholarship.She is a mother of two and resides in Tokyo, Japan.