Naoki is a Partner based in San Francisco, investing in companies with ambitions to expand globally, including Japan.
Prior to Coral, Naoki spent a decade at Hellman & Friedman, a preeminent global private firm focused on large-scale equity investments in high-quality growth businesses with $115b AUM. He helped lead investments in the technology sector and was a board director or was actively involved with UKG (including predecessor companies Ultimate Software and Kronos), Enverus, Splunk, Checkmarx and OpenLink Financial.
Naoki began his career at Morgan Stanley in New York in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He holds a B.S. in Applied Physics and B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.
Naoki is a first-generation Japanese-American, born in the US to Japanese parents. In his free time, he loves to travel & eat around the world with his wife and two young children, attempts to follow almost every sport, and dreams about returning to breakdancing.