Takehisa (Tak) has been heading Japan Quantitative Price Services (QPS) team in Equity Financing Group since 2016. Tak and his team provide quantitative clients with access to equities markets across APAC via a low-latency and high-throughput execution platform.

Tak joined Barclays in 2009. After holding a few roles, Tak joined Japan Electronic Sales Trading Desk in 2012, then headed the desk after 2014 until he moved to Japan QPS in 2016. Before joining Barclays, Tak was with Goldman Sachs for 11 years holding a number of different roles related to Equity within its Technology department.

Tak graduated from The University of Tokyo in 1992 with a bachelor of science degree in Chemical Engineering.