Mr. Yoshihiro (Hiro) Hyakutome
Mr. Yoshihiro (Hiro) Hyakutome
Senior Managing Executive Officer, Co-Head of Global Banking Unit for SMBC Group
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
(Japan)
Yoshihiro Hyakutome is Senior Managing Executive Officer and Co-Head of Global Banking Unit for SMBC Group. He was appointed to this position on April 1, 2024.
In April 2022, Hiro was appointed Senior Managing Executive Officer, Group Chief Compliance Officer for SMBC Group. In April 2019, Hiro was appointed Managing Executive Officer, CEO of SMBC Americas Division, and CEO of SMBC Americas Holdings, Inc. Prior to this assignment, he was Deputy Head of the Asia Growing Markets Division for SMBC Group from April 2018 to March 2019, and was based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Hiro was promoted to Executive Officer of SMBC in April 2016 and was promoted to Managing Executive Officer in April 2018. He joined SMBC in 1988 and has spent many years of his career in corporate banking, structured finance, and business development. Hiro was based in Tokyo between 2011 and 2017 where he was General Manager of the Planning Department for the International Banking Unit (2017), General Manager of the Emerging Markets Business Department (2013–2016), and General Manager of Business Development for the International Banking Unit (2011–2012).
Hiro was based in New York from 1993 until 2011, and held managerial positions in the special credit, corporate finance, structured finance, and leasing finance departments.
Hiro holds a Bachelor of Arts from Osaka University of Foreign Studies (1988) and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (1993).
