Masaki Sugihara

Background

About Masaki Sugihara

Masaki Sugihara joined Asset Management One Co, Ltd. in July 2025, as Senior Executive belonging to ETF Promotion Center, Product Div. He had been working for State Street Global Advisors Japan since July 2013, as a senior sales focusing on the business development and promotion of SSGA’s ETFs in Japan, such as ETFs with a flagship brand known as “SPDR”. In Nov 2019, he was promoted to the Head of Japan SPDR ETF Business, as a playing manager of the ETF team in Japan, including the coordination with other teams across the globe. After the global organizational change around the end of 2023, he has been taking the role of an account executive to key Japanese professional clients, while extending the product coverage to the whole products and services to be provided by SSGA (not limited to ETF). Before joining SSGA, he worked for a number of global investment banking firms for about 20 years, developing and marketing structured products on various asset classes such as equity, fixed income, currency and commodity. He served as a project leader at Barclays Securities for the first ETN listed in Japan in Aug 2011. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1991, with a Bachelor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering.