Bio

Mr. Okamoto is a Partner and Head of Japan at Apollo having joined in 2019. Previously, Mr. Okamoto was a Managing Director at Bain Capital, where he was a member of the Asia Pacific Private Equity team for eleven years, responsible for overseeing execution processes for new deals and existing portfolio companies in Japan. At Bain Capital he was also a leader on the Capital Markets team covering Asia. Before that, he worked at Ripplewood Holdings where he executed Japan private equity investments and at Merrill Lynch Japan’s Investment Banking division. Mr. Okamoto graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a BS in Computer Science and BA in Economics.