"We will continue to accelerate our efforts to find and acquire projects overseas by leveraging the knowledge and expertise we have accumulated."
Katsuhito Manabe, President, Renewable Japan Co., Ltd.
It is not often that a success story begins with a disaster, but in the case of Renewable Japan, that is exactly what happened. Founded the year after the devastating 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami which led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the company is growing at home as well as internationally, and the man responsible for this tells its story.
“IT wanted to spread renewable energy by leveraging the expertise I had cultivated through my long experience in the financial industry,” explains Katsuhito Manabe, President of Renewable Japan, who goes on to provide more details of how he got to where he is today.
“My background is in investment banking. I joined Lehman Brothers in Tokyo as a new graduate and have been engaged in the investment banking business for a total of 18 years, becoming the founder of the securitization business in Lehman Tokyo. The day after the tsunami hit Fukushima,” Mr. Manabe recalls, I received an email from my U.S. business partner, with an offer to provide solar-powered water purifiers to those affected by the earthquakes in both Fukushima and Tohoku. I accepted and drove to the locations myself to deliver them.
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