Profile: New Horizon Capital's Yasushi Ando
New Horizon Capital CEO Yasushi Ando has emerged as a leading voice for boosting the profile of private equity in Japan. His efforts are starting gain traction but the journey has not been smooth
It was 1996 and Yasushi Ando - now CEO of Japan's New Horizon Capital - was in Europe staring at a 149-foot-deep hole, a $3 billion debt mountain and 174 large chunks of paperwork. As part of the corporate...
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