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Yoshito Hori was born on 28 March, 1962 in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese venture capitalist and educator (born 1962). Discover Yoshito Hori's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Educator, venture capitalist
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 28 March 1962
Birthday 28 March
Birthplace Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Nationality Japan

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1962

Yoshito Hori (堀義人) (born March 28, 1962) is a Japanese businessman, educator, and venture capitalist.

He is the founder and president of Globis Corporation and Globis University Graduate School of Management.

He is also founder and managing partner of Globis Capital Partners, president of the G1 Institute and the Kibow Foundation, and owner of the Ibaraki Robots basketball team and radio broadcaster Ibaraki Broadcasting System.

Yoshito Hori was born in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture on March 28, 1962.

Hori spent most of his early youth at Tōkai, Ibaraki where his father worked as a nuclear researcher.

At age 3 he moved to New York in the United States with his family.

About 2 years later his family moved to Michigan.

Hori moved back to Japan during the second grade of elementary school.

Around the end of sixth grade his family relocated to Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture.

1981

Hori attended Ibaraki Prefectural Mito First High School (茨城県立水戸第一高等学校・附属中学校) in his hometown of Mito, which he graduated in 1981.

1986

After high school he entered Kyoto University where he completed a BSc in Engineering in 1986.

Hori started his career at Sumitomo Corporation in 1986 where he was in charge of new business development and foreign trade of production-plant facilities.

1989

He was able to secure sponsorship from his employer in 1989 to study at Harvard Business School.

While studying at Harvard Business School, Hori was highly influenced by his classmates in deciding to pursue entrepreneurship.

He observed how the US provided a fertile business environment for start-ups.

Hori set out to replicate a similar environment in Japan by creating an ecosystem of knowledge, people and capital.

1991

Hori obtained his MBA in 1991.

1992

He left Sumitomo in 1992 to start his own business.

Hori established Globis Corporation in Japan on August 1, 1992 with 800,000 yen (about $7,500 USD) in capital.

He first approached his alma mater about opening a Harvard Business School franchise in Japan but was turned down.

A licensing agreement was made, however, allowing Harvard case studies to be used.

Hori started teaching a single marketing course based on the case study method from a small rented classroom in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Additional business subjects such as finance were subsequently introduced.

This started Globis Management School (GMS), the company’s business education department.

1993

By 1993 Globis Management School had expanded to three campus locations in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.

In 1993 a corporate training service was launched.

1995

In 1995 Globis’s first MBA book series was published.

1996

A joint MBA program with the University of Leicester was launched in 1996, later discontinued in January 2008.

In 1996 Hori founded Globis Capital Partners (GCP) as a hands-on VC firm to support various startup portfolio companies.

That same year an initial $5 million venture fund was raised, with $1 million coming from Sega Enterprises’ chairman Isao Okawa.

1999

In 1999 the Apax Globis Japan Fund worth $187 million was jointly raised with Apax Partners.

2003

In 2003 the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA) was launched, a non-degree program and predecessor to the later MBA degree offered after the establishment of Graduate School of Management, Globis University.

2005

Executive training programs were added in 2005.

2006

Five additional funds were raised in 2006, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022.

Global Capital Partners reported it reached a cumulative fund size of over ¥160 billion JPY (approximately $1.2 billion) invested in over 190 Japanese companies in 2022.

2013

GDBA was discontinued in 2013.

Globis expanded into several new business areas following Globis Management School.

2016

In 2016 the online learning service GLOBIS Manabihodai was launched.

2018

The company introduced a LMS platform in 2018.

By 2022, Globis had 691 employees, offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai, Fukuoka, and Yokohama, and overseas subsidiaries in China, Singapore, Thailand, the United States and Belgium.