Aki is a structured finance veteran with more than two decades of real estate investment and securitization experience. Based in New York and Tokyo, he worked on numerous cross-border transactions including Japan’s first ever securitization backed M&A. After a decade at Morgan Stanley, he led Deutsche Bank’s structured U.S. mortgage business in Tokyo until 2008. Prior to joining NorthRock, Aki served for seven years as the investment risk officer for a multi-strategy investment firm, Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc. He joined NorthRock as an asset manager and currently also spearheads the firm’s data and technology initiatives. He holds a master’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University.
