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Martin Beresford is a former director of KMV Corporation, a San Francisco financial technology firm, where he was head of KMV Asia KK in Tokyo. Earlier, he worked in the technology and financial sectors in Japan, Asia, Continental Europe, the UK and the USA, as President of Nichibei America, a research firm specializing in US-Japan capital and technology flows; as a Vice President with Morgan Stanley; as a General Manager with S.G. Warburg; and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and London. |  |
Before entering the financial services sector, he worked in international management with Levi Strauss in Japan, Europe and California; as a General Manager in the Inchcape Group, as a divisional Marketing Director in Schweppes, as a Brand Manager in Procter & Gamble, and as a research analyst with Attwood Statistics.
Born in London in 1937, he was evacuated to Somerset during the Blitz in World War II. He won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School, London, and a scholarship in classics to St. John's College, Oxford. He served as a Lieutenant and Platoon Commander in the Parachute Regiment (British Army). He studied philosophy and economics at Oxford University and finance at Stanford University. He speaks and reads Japanese, and has published numerous articles on the Japanese economy, international capital markets and economic development.
In the UK, he was active in the Conservative Party and in the European Movement. Later, he served as a director of the Japan Society of Northern California, as a committee member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Presidio Working Group and the US Hang Gliding Association, and as a volunteer with the Veterans Medical Center. He is currently a director of the Marina Community Association and the Marin County Hang Gliding Association, a sponsor of the Cato Institute, and a member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
His hobbies include hang gliding, skiing, sailing, tennis, music and poetry, and he was formerly an amateur boxer.
Publications, Speeches, etc.
"Productivity in a Competitive World", Financial Times, Feb. 2011.
"Japanese Component Makers' Value Added", Financial Times, Feb. 2010.
"In Defense of Free Enterprise", San Francisco Planning Commission, 2009.
"Saving the Main Post", Marina Community Association, 2008.
"Defending the Presidio", and "Wrong Track for the Main Post", Marina Times, 2008.
"Flying Geezer: Hang Gliding at 70", USHGA Monthly, 2007.
"Civilization and Commitment", National Public Radio, 2005.
"Closing the Growth Gap", USHGA Board, 2005.
"Riding on the Wind - 100 Haiku", Marina Publications, 2004.
"Raising Japan's Capital Productivity", Euromoney Conference, Hong Kong, 2001.
"Credit Risk Modeling and Structured Finance", Association for Financial Engineering, Singapore, 2001.
"Equity Values and Bond Spreads", Nikkei Kinyu, 2001.
"The Future of Banking", Japan Center for International Finance, 2000.
"Japan's Productivity Problem", Nikkei Shinbum, 1996.
"How to Get Japan Growing Again", Wall Street Journal, 1996.
"Japan's New Venture Capitalists", Wall Street Journal, 1996.
"Japan's Service Sector in the Information Age", SF Chamber of Commerce, 1997.
"The Japanese Are Coming to California - Again", Wall Street Journal, 1996.
"Japan's Next Economic Miracle", Wall Street Journal, 1996.
"Japan's Retail Revolution", Asian Wall Street Journal, 1995.
"Asia's New Consumers", Michigan University Business School, 1994.
"California Dreams, Asian Markets", Wall Street Journal, 1993.
"Managing Global Equity Portfolios: Does MPT Work?" 1993.
"Joining Asia's Retail Revolution", Asian Wall Street Journal, 1993.
"Japanese Investment Returns to Asia", Wall Street Journal, 1993.
"Japan Ponders California Investments", Nikkei Weekly, 1992.
"Rising Sun at the Golden Gate", San Francisco Chronicle, 1992, reprinted in Japan Times. Interviews on US and Japanese competition, Channel 5 TV, Jan-Mar. 92.
"Why Japanese Investment Is Good For California", Commonwealth Club, 1992.
"Japanese Investment in the Bay Area", San Francisco Chronicle, 1991.
"Profiting from Japan's US Investment", Nikkei Weekly, 1991.
"Flat Panel Displays: Japan Leads the World", 1989. "Electronic Components: Japan's Global Lead", 1989.
"Japan's Emerging Multinationals", The Economist, 1987.
"Sushi and Anisakiasis", The Economist, 1987.
"Japanese Semiconductor Strategies", Wall Street Journal, 1987.
"How Levi's Won the Jeans War in Japan", American Management Association, 1984.
"Daisaku Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai", Far East Economic Review, 1984.
"Japan's Evolving Industrial Strategy and the Structure of Japanese Investment in the EEC", Doctoral Thesis, 1983.
"Robert Solow Was Right: Japan and the US in the 1980s", University of Southern California 1983.
"Winning Strategies for Global Markets", American Management Association, 1983.
"How Japanese Companies Manage People", International Management, 1982.
"Japan's Euro-Investments: Threat or Opportunity?", Management Today, 1981, reprinted in the McKinsey Quarterly.
"Japan's Direct Investment Helps Europe", Journal of the European Movement, 1981.
"Japanese Strategy in the USA", The Economist, 1981.
"Structural Imbalances in Euro-Japanese Trade", The Economist, 1981.
"How to Sell in Japan", Management Centre Europe, 1980.
"Japan's Foreign Direct Investment", Diamond Magazine, 1975.
"Le Defi Japonnais", European Business, 1974, reprinted in the McKinsey Quarterly and the Atlantic Community Quarterly.