Eiji Kobayashi is Country Head, Japan of Securitize, Inc., the leader in tokenizing real-world assets, driving the compliant digitization of financial assets through next-generation blockchain technology. Eiji started his investment banking career on Wall Street with Merrill Lynch and then moved to Goldman Sachs. After four years in New York, he was relocated to Tokyo where he worked at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. He then took leadership roles at American Express, Mastercard, Western Union and a European insurtech start-up. Eiji joined Securitize in February 2020, and is a member of the Executive Committee at Securitize, Inc.. Eiji has an A.B. degree in Mathematical Economics from Brown University and M.B.A. from The University of Chicago. Eiji was appointed as Director of Japan Security Token Association in August 2022.