Hideo Ohkubo

Founder, Chairman and President of Tokyo-based Forval Corporation, born in Tokyo and now is a leadership committee member of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and vice-committee chairman of Advancement of New Industry. He is also the New Business Convention Vice-Chairman.

He graduated from the Law department of Kokugakuin University. He worked at both traditional Japanese large-scaled corporations and the foreign-oriented full-commission based companies and saw the advantages and disadvantages over each other. He thus got the idea to undertake the creation of a company with the advantages of both types of companies.

He founded nihongo|Nippon Kouhan|日本工販 (Now Forval) in 1980. In 1988 his company went public on JASDAQ, becoming the youngest company in history to do so. That same year he won the "Young Enterpreneur of the Year" Award from the New Business Convention.

In 2000 Forval Telecom made its first public offering on Mother’s stock exchange. In 2001 Forval Creative made a public offering on NASDAQ Japan (Now Hercules) in Osaka. Ohkubo is known for supportive financing and various arrangements that have encouraged past Forval employees and business partners to create their own successful incorporations, some of which have since gone public.

He is also known for the Forval Foundation which sponsors its "Stradavarius Scholarship", granting the winner of a violinist competition the free use of the foundation’s Stradavarius violin for 2 years.

Published Writing (No English Translation Available):

nihongo2|やり抜けば仕事は必ず面白くなる!―思い抜き、考え抜いて壁を越える (Stay the course at work and it will become interesting! Thoughts about the crossover point) (2005/6)

nihongo2|武士道に学ぶビジネスマン48の心得 (Businessman’s study of 48 samurai principles) (1995/10)

External links

* [http://www.forval.co.jp Forval Corporation HP] ja icon