Most Powerful Women Asia

Kathy Matsui

Courtesy of MPower Partners Fund
  • Title
    General Partner
  • Company/Affiliation
    MPower Partners Fund
  • Country/Territory
    Japan

The former vice chair of Goldman Sachs Japan and inventor of "womenomics," Harvard grad Kathy Matsui witnessed female workforce inclusion climb for a quarter-century under Japan's economic strategy, then crash amid COVID-19 pressures. Now, she says the private sector must play its part to drive diversity‚ a conviction encapsulated in MPower Partners, Japan's first ESG-focused venture capital fund, which she founded in 2021 with Miwa Seki and Yumiko Murakami.