Yoshihiko Hayafuji is Head of Japan in charge of all the local operations (investments and asset management). He has over 30 year’s experience operating in the Japanese real estate and corporate finance sectors, having worked for some of Japan’s leading financial institutions across the investments, fund management, broking and valuation disciplines. Hayafuji joined AXA - IM Real Assets in January 2017 from Grosvenor Limited’s Japan Branch, a subsidiary of the global property group where he served successively as Director of Fund Management, responsible for managing three funds and then as Director of Investment, responsible for all aspects of the investment cycle. Prior to that, he worked at Aetos Japan on the valuation team, overseeing real estate valuation for the fund acquisitions. Hayafuji began his career at Nomura Real Estate.