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The IBP Team

Entering the Japanese market can seem daunting,   IBP's founders,  together with a team of in situ  Finance, Shipping, and Technology industry professionals, will help you rapidly enter and build your Japan business. 

Robin is an Asia/Pacific investment & shipping industry professional outsourcing and recruitment consultant with 40 years’ experience of financial and maritime markets based within Japan and the Asia/Pacific region.

He held leading roles in Hong Kong and Japan for Jardine Matheson, Crosby Securities, ING Barings and then established AFM, the headhunting company. He is a highly ranked professional head-hunter focused on Asia/Japan’s Fund Management & Investment industry and In the last ten years Robin has added a focus on headhunting and outsourcing for the Maritime industry.

A specialist investment industry business development and market entry consultant Robin has been instrumental in helping a number of international firms build their business in Japan. 

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Gordon has over 35 years Information Technology experience encompassing a broad spectrum of leadership roles including Direct  Sales and Partner Business Development. 

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Gordon was most recently a Senior Director of Presales for Dell Technologies in Asia Pacific and Japan.  Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Gordon was a senior manager at Standard Chartered Bank reengineering the Service Delivery practices to improve  availability and reduce technology risk. 

 

Gordon got his start in the business with IBM, holding a number of client facing roles including Systems Engineering,  Digital Transformation consultant, and Data Center management.  During his leadership role with IBM's America's and Far East division, his team built a viable IT Services practice in Japan which became Kyndryl Japan.   

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The wider IBP team is based in Japan, China, Singapore and Philippines, are a multi-lingual, multi-cultural group of  Finance, Logistics, and Marine Tech industry professionals fluent in most Asian languages.  
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