FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Hikaru Ogino
Age 33 · IPO execution, controls and financial operations · Japan
The finance executive who built a startup's public-company apparatus from zero and led it through listing.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 33
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- Japan
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 61.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Hikaru Ogino joined the company now known as Quants Research Institute Holdings in 2020 with a mandate broader than conventional accounting. He built administration, internal controls, legal operations and investor relations, then led the work required for the group's 2022 public listing. His record is unusually specific about the functions created from zero, making it possible to distinguish his contribution from the brokerage's operating growth.
Ogino remained the group's chief financial officer during its 2025 expansion into operating leases. The subsidiary was formally established on 30 January, and he was the finance executive named in the disclosure. That is evidence of current responsibility, but the public record does not establish that he originated or personally executed the new business. His selection therefore rests primarily on the completed IPO and institutional architecture, with the 2025 event confirming continued relevance.
FigureAsia selection
Why Hikaru Ogino is on the list
FigureAsia selected Ogino because public markets depend on builders of controls as much as on dealmakers. He took a young financial-services company from limited administrative capacity to a listed structure, coordinating legal, accounting, disclosure and investor-relations work. The result was completed, externally regulated and durable enough to support later corporate development.
The profile keeps his contribution separate from founder strategy, brokerage transactions and group valuation. Ogino is not credited with the operating results of the M&A business, nor with sole authorship of the leasing subsidiary. He is recognised for the verifiable finance and governance systems he built and for his leadership of the listing process.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
Led the group's completed public listing
After building administration, controls, legal and investor-relations functions from 2020, Ogino directed the internal listing process through completion.
Finance leadership continued through leasing expansion
The group completed the establishment of Souken Leasing with Ogino serving as its accountable CFO, though public materials do not attribute origination of the new business to him.
Field context
The work in its field
Fast-growing financial-services companies create a particular control challenge. They handle transactions and confidential information while also scaling staff, systems and public claims. A weak administrative core can turn growth into legal, disclosure and governance risk.
Ogino's work is significant because it made those systems part of the company's operating foundation before listing. It is the kind of completed institutional labour that is often hidden behind a founder narrative.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
61.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
18 / 30
Led the group's completed public listing is treated as a delivered financial outcome. The score is confined to the completed result described in the record and excludes projections or paper valuation.
Individual agency and execution
14 / 25
The documented role—Director and Chief Financial Officer—and the attributed actions in the profile establish accountable execution. Institution-wide results are not assigned to the person alone.
Verified reach and significance
13 / 20
Fast-growing financial-services companies create a particular control challenge. They handle transactions and confidential information while also scaling staff, systems and public claims. A weak administrative core can turn growth into legal, disclosure and governance risk.
Innovation and field influence
8 / 15
The record combines ipo execution, controls and financial operations with the completed work described in Finance leadership continued through leasing expansion. Credit reflects demonstrated practice, not a claim of novelty by itself.
Stewardship, access and Asian relevance
8 / 10
The Asian connection is explicit: A Japanese certified public accountant who built the control, legal, investor-relations and finance functions of a Tokyo-listed M&A group. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.