TEAM
The dLab Asset Management leadership team consists of highly knowledgeable members with over 70 years of combined experience in the finance industry. Our diverse background in other subject matters and reliable partners enable our creative approach.
Our Leadership
Mamoru Taniya
Chairman
Mamoru Taniya
Chairman
Mamoru Taniya has approximately 30 years of experience in the finance industry and has spent over 20 years supporting startups and NGO/NPO initiatives through angel investing. At Salomon Brothers, he served as the youngest Managing Director in Asia, overseeing the investment departments for Japan and Asia.
He later founded Asuka Asset Management, a pioneer of independent alternative investment in Japan, and Mercuria Investment Co. in partnership with the Development Bank of Japan. With a hands-on approach to business creation, he helped launch several "Japan’s first" ventures, including Lifenet Insurance, Money Design (robo-advisory), RECIKA (blockchain), and SDG Impact Japan. He currently serves as Chairman for MNES, R Project, and Discover Japan.
Deeply committed to social impact, Mr. Taniya is the founder and representative of UWC ISAK Japan, the nation's first international boarding school. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Human Rights Watch Tokyo Committee and a Councilor of the International House of Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law.
Hiro Takaku
Chief Executive Officer
Hiro Takaku brings a unique combination of more than two decades of experience across global investment banking and technology startups. Together with other founding members, he launched a tech startup in 1998 while he was an engineering student at Keio University. Serving as Chief Technology Officer, Mr Takaku spearheaded a variety of tech-related businesses until 2003, when he joined UBS in Japan.
At UBS, Mr Takaku held a number of managerial roles in Tokyo, London and Hong Kong. His proven ability to build businesses and teams led him to achieve the fastest promotion to Managing Director at the time, taking responsibility for structured products division. He subsequently served as Head of Equities in Japan and Head of Structured Solutions for Asia Pacific, in addition to sitting on several management committees. He is also an active advocate for volunteer projects and gender equality programs, having been involved in the Great East Japan Earthquake relief project and the regional Diversity and Inclusion Council.
Mr Takaku holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Keio University.
Hiroyoshi Sandaya
CIO
Hiroyoshi Sandaya
Chief Investment Officer
Hiroyoshi Sandaya has been involved in financial markets for 20 years and has theoretical and practical experience as a strategist and a trader.
In his second year at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, he built Japan's first mortgage prepayment model and was responsible for quantitative analysis of the fixed income and foreign exchange markets as Head of Financial Strategy. He was the brains behind the firm's most profitable trading team at the time, and in 2011 he became the fastest strategist to be promoted to Managing Director prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2014 to head up the Pan-Asian market strategy team. He developed a proprietary quantitative model to predict central bank foreign exchange interventions, with a prediction accuracy rate of over 90%, and in 2017 he moved to trading desk, specializing in interest rate derivatives as well as algorithmic strategies to exploit market distortions. His previous role was at Millennium, a large US-based macro hedge fund, where he was a portfolio manager of global macro. He holds a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Kyoto University.
Takashi Miura
Senior Credit Strategist
Takashi Miura has been involved in financial markets for almost 40 years, disseminating market information as a credit analyst, providing investment advice for client portfolios and advising on product structuring at several bulge-bracket investment banks.
In 1984, he joined Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (now Mizuho Bank). He then transferred to NIS (now R&I) in 1996, where he was involved in rating corporate bonds and securitisation products. As a member of the Rating Committee, he was also involved in the rating decision-making process. In 2000, he joined Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, where he worked as a credit analyst. After the transition to Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities in 2012 then Credit Suisse Securities in 2014, he worked as an equity analyst, covering Japanese bank stocks and providing investment advice to global investors. In 2018, he joined to a patent firm to provide investment information from an IP perspective. He now works as a portfolio strategist for an independent IFA, analysing and proposing financial products for high-net-worth individuals.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law.