New Business Opportunities in Japan for Overseas Asset Managers 2022

Paul Fradale has been an educator for 31 years and has worked in both state and private schools in Hawai'i and Japan. He is currently the Head of Hikarigaoka Campus for Aoba-Japan International School, an IB World School with over 700 students. A lecturer for International Christian University, he has published several peer-reviewed journal articles, a book with Routledge released in 2021, and is completing his doctoral thesis, all on Blended Learning. Paul is an expatriate American; he has lived in Japan for 21 years and is now a permanent resident. In his spare time he is renovating a 132 year old farmhouse in rural Japan with his wife, also an expatriate American, and their story has been covered by CNN.

Mr. Bailey comes from a family of teachers and was educated in Canada, the United Kingdom, and The Republic of Ireland. He has a passion for education, business, and science and took those passions to Laurus International School of Science in Tokyo where he has been both a teacher and recently the Principal, over the past two years.

Apart from his position at Laurus, Mr. Bailey owns several companies that operate around the world. This business acumen serves his position at Laurus by bringing the real-world business experience to the classroom. Mr. Bailey upholds the Laurus mission statement of “creating innovators to change the world for the better.” Creating these innovators and entrepreneurs is what drives us to do our best every day
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Mr. Montgomery currently is the Representative Director & CEO of Global Step Academy Group, an international education-focused company that creates and provides international education content, both online and offline, for students around the world.

He was also the former Representative Director & CEO of ABC Cooking Studio, the largest cooking school business in Japan and one of the largest in the world. He left after the sale of the company to NTT Docomo in January 2014. Before that, he was an M&A associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). He supported the team in numerous billion-dollar domestic and cross-border M&A deals. He graduated from Babson College with a BA in business administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Economics.