Hiromi Yamaji is director, representative executive officer and group chief operating officer of the Japan Exchange Group. He joined JPX in June 2013 as CEO of Osaka Exchange and helped to develop the derivatives operations of JPX. Yamaji was also appointed CEO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in April 2021.
Prior to JPX, Yamaji worked in Europe and the US, serving as president and CEO of Nomura Europe Holdings in London, and chairman of Nomura Holding America in New York.
He graduated from the Law Faculty at Kyoto University, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.