Hayato "Henry" Ono, CFA

➡Business Development: lead the establishment and growth of the Japan practice, including developing market insights, adapting models to Japan’s regulatory and energy landscape, and building relationships with key stakeholders. ➡Team Building: lead, mentor, and grow a team of exceptional optimization experts, energy market modellers, and consultants, fostering technical excellence and innovative solutions. ➡Market Leadership: represent Endgame in Japan by participating in industry events, engaging with local partners and clients, and serve as the trusted advisor to executive-level clients.

· Led the development and execution of trading strategies to optimize energy market participation, including energy arbitrage, capacity market participation, and ancillary / balancing market services, with an initial focus on BESS assets. · Utilized advanced analytics and modelling techniques to forecast energy market trends, optimize asset performance, and identify revenue opportunities. · Continuously analyzed energy market trends and regulatory changes to adapt strategies that capitalize on market opportunities. · Collaborated with cross-functional teams including operations, engineering, finance, and business development to ensure alignment of asset optimization strategies with overall business objectives.

➢ Advisory Strategy: shaped and executed Aurora’s Advisory strategy, focusing on areas such as transactions (e.g., supporting buy-sides, sell-sides, re-financings of battery, renewables, gas, transmission etc.) and also within the policy and general energy advisory space. ➢ Project & Resource Management: ensured delivery to timescale and to Aurora's high-quality standards; communicated research to senior stakeholders in the industry and the government. ➢ External Engagement: engaged with the media and at speaking events as an industry thought leader ➢ Team Development: built out the local team of Analysts and developed the firm culture of Aurora's Tokyo office.

➢ Deepened and expanded ESG integration in the firm’s investment process by contributing to the development and execution of ESG strategies on engagement, stewardship processes, and regulatory reporting such as the annual PRI report. ➢ Directly engaged with portfolio companies, focusing on those who have not adopted sustainability frameworks such as GRI, SASB, and TCFD. ➢ Developed ESG data analytics such as a carbon footprint analysis tool using data sources such as CDP and Bloomberg, in order to provide clarity from a carbon metric perspective for the firm’s funds. ➢ Partnered with external organizations such as the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) to further knowledge of ESG policies and regulations and provide feedback to policymakers from an investor's perspective. ➢ Collaborated with Marketing to respond to RFPs with consistent ESG language to present the firm's ESG strategy and approach to sustainability in a clear, concise manner.

➢ Portfolio Advisory: Analyzed clients' multi-asset portfolios (i.e. equities, fixed income, credit, alternatives) and provided solutions addressing issues such as custom portfolio construction, strategic asset allocation, risk management (e.g. VaR, ESG risk), and portfolio rebalancing for institutional investors and high net worth clients. ➢ Relationship Management: Attended seminars and conferences to present Bloomberg's capabilities to existing and prospective clients and collaborated cross-functionally with sales to strengthen client relationships across multiple channels. ➢ Product Strategy: Developed strategic initiatives for the Sustainable Finance & ESG platform and advised institutional clients on integration of ESG data & factors within their investment process. ➢ Thematic Research: Conducted investment research on market trends for publication on Bloomberg. ▫ Example publication (in Japanese): https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2017-09-12/-75

➢ Investment Strategy: Ideated tactical investment strategies for U.S. and global equities on corporate actions, rebalances, and investment flows for index families such as S&P500/400/600, MSCI World, and FTSE All-World. ➢ Quantitative Research: Conducted factor research to construct and maintain the SG Global Quality Income Index, consisting of high-quality stocks based on their Piotroski F-score and other fundamentals; its tracking Lyxor ETF has AUM of over $1.3bn. ➢ Due Diligence: Monitored portfolio holdings for the SG Global Quality Income Index to ensure its tracking Lyxor ETF is properly rebalanced with minimal tracking error, in collaboration with Lyxor Asset Management teams.

➢ Investment Strategy: Conducted investment research for Japanese equities regarding corporate actions, rebalances, and projected investment flows for index families such as TOPIX, TSEREIT, Nikkei 225, and MSCI Japan. ➢ ETF Research: Analyzed inflows & outflows of ETFs in Japan and Asia-ex, highlighting new ETF launches, significant premiums and discounts, and trading opportunities for ETF families such as iShares and SPDR series. ➢ Dividend Research: Conducted bottom-up fundamental analysis of Nikkei 225 dividends - identifying opportunities as well as risks - and authored research reports for distribution to institutional clients such as pension funds. ➢ Due Diligence: Monitored internal trading positions for Nikkei 225 dividend swaps to manage risk exposure levels and verify OTC contractual terms, in collaboration with the derivatives trading desks.

➢ 12-week rotational internship program with three 4-week desk rotations within various research product areas. ➢ Equity Derivatives: Researched the interactions between volatility skew and implied volatility of S&P500 options and devised a methodology using the skew to forecast implied volatility given a movement of the underlying index. ➢ Commodities: Developed an algorithm which detects the occurrence of market disruption events of commodity futures and adjusts the rolling of futures contracts to automate the calculation of the MLCX commodity index. ➢ Municipal Bonds: Constructed a mathematical model which analyzes the total pre-tax and after-tax return of a municipal bond with the possibility of the issue being advance refunded and its impact on the total horizon return.

➢ Managed a portfolio of automobile and homeowners insurance policies spanning over four New England states with aggregate gross annual revenue of over $70 million in the general account. ➢ Conducted profitability analysis of the portfolio via autoregressive time-series models to generate suitable rate changes for stimulating growth and profitability simultaneously. ➢ Supported senior actuaries in the creation of asset-liability models in alignment with investment income requirements, capital efficiency goals, and return-on-capital objectives stated in the annual investment plan.

Graduate Project: “Home Value Insurance: Protecting the value of your most valuable asset” Selected Coursework: Credit Risk Modeling, Derivatives: Quantitative Methods, Stochastic Calculus

· Columbia’s Earth Institute is the largest university-wide research organization in the world dedicated to sustainability research, practice, and education. · Curriculum emphasizes the physical dimensions of sustainability (e.g., water, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental infrastructure), general and financial management, economics, quantitative analysis, and policy.

Selected Coursework: C++ Programming, Design of Algorithms, Numerical Analysis, Probabilistic Calculus