Kotaro Hama is a senior project manager at SESAMm Japan. His primary responsibilities is to manage custom projects across Asia Pacific including Japan, to best serve our clients with SESAMm's solutions. Before coming to SESAMm Japan in September 2022, Kotaro served as a senior portfolio manager and vice president at Dimensional Fund Advisors for 10 years. Prior to that, he was an equity trading strats at Morgan Stanley. Kotaro is a Chartered Financial Analyst and earned a bachelor's degree in arts from ICU and his master's degree in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.