フロンティア・マネジメント株式会社

EXECUTIVES

Akinori Nishida

Representative Director,
President and Executive Officer (COO)

Career summary

  • Apr. 1996

    Joined Hamada Accounting Office

  • Apr. 1999

    Joined Okano Office GK (currently Tax Accountant Corporation Nagomi)

  • Jul. 2003

    Joined Sweet Garden Co., Ltd. (currently Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd.)

  • Apr. 2004

    General Manager of Corporate Planning Department

  • Apr. 2006

    Executive Officer and General Manager of Administration Division

  • Jul. 2007

    Joined the Company as Director

  • Mar. 2008

    Senior Director

  • Mar. 2010

    Managing Director

  • Mar. 2012

    Director of Shouei Co., Ltd. (currently Hulic Co., Ltd.)

  • Sep. 2012

    Representative Director and Senior Managing Director of Frontier Turnaround Inc.

  • Jul. 2016

    Representative Director and President

  • Apr. 2017

    Managing Executive Officer of the Company

  • Aug. 2017

    Outside Director of Willer, Inc. (current position)

  • Sep. 2022

    Outside Director of 77 Partners Co., Ltd. (current position)

  • Mar. 2024

    Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company

  • Jan. 2025

    President and Executive Officer (COO) (current position)

  • Mar. 2025

    Director of Celebrain Corporation (scheduled to take office in March 2025)

Achievements

At the accounting firm, he was engaged primarily as a management advisor for medium-sized companies, involved in strategic planning, organizational restructuring, management consulting, and support for IPO preparations. As part of this work, he served as CFO of a non-listed foreign-owned restaurant company with a nationwide presence, focusing on hands-on management execution. He was involved in enhancing corporate value through finance, including the procurement of funds.

At Sweet Garden Co., Ltd. , a PE fund investee, he implemented management reforms centered on financial restructuring, including BPO, and achieved the refinancing of LBO loans. He was subsequently involved in management execution during the company’s growth stage and contributed to completing its rehabilitation through the transfer of all shares to a domestic operating company.

He has worked at Frontier Management Inc. since 2008. He was involved in the voluntary liquidation of the ALPICO Group (MATSUMOTO ELECTRIC RAILWAY GROUP), a conglomerate centered on transportation, retail, and tourism businesses, and later participated in management as Managing Director, focusing on structural reforms. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Director of the same group. He became Director of Shoei Co., Ltd. (currently Hulic Co., Ltd.) in 2012 and held that position until the merger in 2012.

Other Accomplishments

He has been an instructor of the investment banking course at the Waseda University Business Information Academy since December 2012.

Education

Master’s degree, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka Prefecture University
Tax Accountant

Main Works and Papers

Contributed to “Special: Corporate Governance Issues” in The Turnaround and Credit Management Quarterly, Spring 2015

Contributed to Business Revitalization and Corporate Governance (KINZAI, 2015)

Co-author of Practical Planning for Voluntary Liquidation (SHOJIHOMU, 2011)

Co-author of Professional Managers and Buyouts (Chuokeizai-sha, 2012)