FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Masaharu Kamada
Age 30 · Public markets and corporate finance · Japan
A young finance executive with hands-on experience taking a healthcare platform into Japan's public market.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 30
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- Japan
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 60.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Masaharu Kamada entered corporate finance through public accounting, qualifying as a Japanese certified public accountant after joining Deloitte Tohmatsu while still in his early twenties. He then moved to GUPPY's, a recruitment and information platform for medical, nursing and welfare professionals. As head of corporate strategy, Kamada worked on the company's completed listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth market in September 2022 and remained involved in investor relations after admission. The listing filing contemporaneously records him as an employee and option holder, corroborating his presence during the transaction.
Kamada subsequently served as CFO of Public Technologies before joining eldercare-services company Emimen in December 2024. He became its director and CFO in January 2026, with responsibility for finance strategy and capital policy. In May, Emimen entered a JPY200 million unsecured commitment-line agreement with Resona Bank for working-capital flexibility, naming Kamada as the responsible finance executive in its market disclosure. The facility is modest and should not be inflated; its relevance is that it provides a recent completed financing alongside his more substantial IPO record.
FigureAsia selection
Why Masaharu Kamada is on the list
FigureAsia selected Kamada for direct, completed public-markets work at an unusually early stage of his career. The evidence goes beyond a retrospective CFO title: his issuer identifies him as the strategy head who worked on GUPPY's listing and post-listing IR, while the original exchange filing places him inside the company during the transaction. His later CFO roles show a continuing finance path rather than a temporary assignment to an IPO project.
Kamada's record is more national than international, and his ranking should reflect that distinction. The GUPPY's offering was not among Asia's largest transactions, while Emimen's 2026 bank facility is routine corporate financing. FigureAsia's case rests instead on demonstrated execution through Japan's disclosure and listing system, the completed transition from private company to listed issuer, and his present responsibility for capital policy at another public company.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
GUPPY's began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
The healthcare recruitment platform completed its Growth-market listing while Kamada served in corporate strategy; the issuer later identified him as having worked on the IPO and subsequent investor relations.
Became Emimen's director and CFO
After joining Emimen as corporate-division head in December 2024 and becoming an executive officer in 2025, Kamada assumed responsibility for finance strategy and capital policy.
Emimen disclosed a JPY200 million commitment line
The company approved an unsecured Resona Bank commitment-line agreement to improve working-capital flexibility, with Kamada named as the responsible CFO in the disclosure.
Field context
The work in its field
An initial public offering is not completed when a company announces its intention to list. It requires audited financial reporting, governance and internal-control preparation, engagement with advisers and the exchange, an offer process and a functioning disclosure programme after trading begins. Corporate-finance credit should therefore follow documented execution, not proximity to a founder or the prestige of an adviser.
Japan's Growth market is designed for companies with substantial future-growth potential, including smaller issuers building formal public-market systems for the first time. Kamada's record is relevant because it spans the listing boundary: he worked on admission and then on investor relations, before carrying that experience into CFO responsibility for finance strategy and capital policy at another listed company.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
60.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
18 / 30
GUPPY's began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 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
12 / 20
An initial public offering is not completed when a company announces its intention to list. It requires audited financial reporting, governance and internal-control preparation, engagement with advisers and the exchange, an offer process and a functioning disclosure programme after trading begins. Corporate-finance credit should therefore follow documented execution, not proximity to a founder or the prestige of an adviser.
Innovation and field influence
8 / 15
The record combines public markets and corporate finance with the completed work described in Emimen disclosed a JPY200 million commitment line. 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 chartered accountant and finance executive whose completed listing work and current capital-policy responsibilities sit within Japan's public markets. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.