FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Kyohei Sashida
Age 34 · Public-market finance and management systems · Japan
A CFO who built a young technology company's management function through a completed public listing.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 34
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- Japan
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 62.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Kyohei Sashida brought investment-banking and asset-management experience into Globee in 2020 and became responsible for its finance and management function. Three years later the AI-enabled language-learning company completed a listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market. The regulatory record confirms that he served as director and chief financial officer through the process and retained that position into 2026.
His contribution is best understood as institution-building rather than a claim over the company's technology or user growth. A young company preparing for public markets needs budgets, controls, investor materials, governance and a management cadence that can survive quarterly scrutiny. Sashida's documented remit and continuing role indicate that he carried that work across the threshold from private company to listed issuer.
FigureAsia selection
Why Kyohei Sashida is on the list
FigureAsia selected Sashida for a completed capital-markets transition supported by clear executive accountability. His earlier banking and asset-management work gave him technical preparation, but the selection rests on what he built inside Globee: a management function capable of completing a listing and operating afterward.
The evidence does not establish that he single-handedly delivered the IPO, and the company's educational reach is not attributed to him. His recognition is confined to finance, governance and listing execution. International significance is developing rather than established at scale, so the profile emphasises the quality of the completed institutional work.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
Joined Globee as chief financial officer
Sashida took responsibility for the company's finance and management function after earlier roles in investment banking and asset management.
Globee completed its Tokyo listing
The company entered the Growth Market with Sashida serving as director and CFO, completing the private-to-public transition he had helped prepare.
Field context
The work in its field
Public-market readiness is a demanding test for small technology companies. It requires the finance leader to convert rapid experimentation into audited numbers, repeatable controls and a coherent account of capital use.
That work becomes more important for AI products, where claims can run ahead of commercial evidence. Sashida's contribution lies in giving the business a public reporting and governance structure against which progress can be judged.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
62.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
18 / 30
Joined Globee as chief financial officer 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
Public-market readiness is a demanding test for small technology companies. It requires the finance leader to convert rapid experimentation into audited numbers, repeatable controls and a coherent account of capital use.
Innovation and field influence
9 / 15
The record combines public-market finance and management systems with the completed work described in Globee completed its Tokyo listing. 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 CFO who moved from investment banking and asset management to build the finance function of a Tokyo-listed AI education company. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.