UK-Japan Defence and Technology Symposium

Former Managing Partner of Stratton Street Capital LLP, who in 2014 stepped back from day-to-day management. Until last year, he remained a Director of the succeeding Fund structures, Epic Funds PCC, which launched the very first offshore Renminbi Fund in 2007, and was Chairman of Epic Funds UCITS until December 2025.

He was an Advisor to INDOS Financial Group, which was set up in 2012 to be the first UK Independent Depository to take advantage of the introduction of the AIFMD rules in Europe. Since then, it has grown to have oversight of over $35 billion under its administration, made up of 145 Funds from 75 different Investment Managers. oversight. They have developed several initiatives in developing ESG Services. In 2022, they gained their Depository License in Ireland before becoming part of JTC. He resigned in April 2023.

Indranil is a Certified Corporate Director, Chartered Engineer, and leader in insurance and technology. He is a Non-Executive Director on several boards, Managing Partner at Gekkō Advisory, Associate Professor at City, St George’s University of London, a Visiting Fellow in AI Evaluations, a Visiting Lecturer in Engineering Management at Loughborough University, and a Lecturer at Chuo University teaching Comparative Management.

Indranil has lived in Japan for over 20 years, is a native Japanese speaker, and has led high-level trade dialogues. He promotes bilateral investment, SME access, technology collaboration, innovation, and a long-term UK–Japan economic partnership, strengthening ties across industries and growth. An alumnus of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, he earned an MBA and a PhD in Engineering Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and the Chartered Institute for IT. He was named one of the Top 100 Diverse Leaders in Tech in 2021.

Yuuichiro Nakajima is a Japanese national who spent part of his childhood and half of his adult life in the United Kingdom. He initially worked for a Japanese ODA execution agency before moving into investment banking in the City of London at S.G. Warburg in the 1980s and 1990s. Yuuichiro founded and manages his own M&A advisory boutique, Crimson Phoenix. In addition to chairing Japan H.L. Limited, he serves as a Non-Executive Director of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC and as a Trustee of ICEED UK.