Keiji Matsunaga joined SMBC in 1998. After working in wholesale banking business planning, management planning, and other departments in Japan and overseas, he became head of SMBC’s Asia Innovation Centre in Singapore in 2021, working to use digital technology to create business for clients in the APAC region and upgrade internal infrastructure. In 2024, he took up his current position as General Manager of the Digital Strategy Department, where he is in charge of digital strategic planning and management for the SMBC Group and operation of its corporate venture capital fund (SMBC Asia Rising Fund). A graduate from the University of Tokyo, he also earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.