Nobutake Suzuki, former partner at Global Brain, has returned to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as a managing director.

Nobutake Suzuki has rejoined Japan-based financial services firm Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) after nearly 16 years as a partner at venture capital firm Global Brain.

Suzuki was unavailable for comment but his deals at Global Brain, which invests on behalf of a number of corporations, such as telecommunications firm KDDI, included Zoyi, 4DReplay, Eyeota, Awair, Origami and Hailo, the taxi-booking app that merged with Mytaxi.

The bank has appointed Suzuki to two concurrent roles: managing…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.