Company: CNCKW
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-036727
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Company: Coincheck Group N.V.
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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directorship positions with several of Monex’s subsidiaries.  Mr. Matsumoto also currently serves as an outside 
director of Mastercard, Incorporated (since 2016) and as a board member emeritus of Human Rights Watch. 

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Mr. Matsumoto served as an outside director of the Tokyo Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2013 and is a former 
member of the Financial Counsel to the Prime Minister of Japan. He began his career at Salomon Brothers, then 
joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-1998), where he held several leadership positions, including General Partner 
(1994-1998), before he founded Monex, Inc., a Japanese online brokerage firm (and a predecessor company to 
Monex), in 1999. Mr. Matsumoto has a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Tokyo. 
Gary A. Simanson is an Executive Director, and President and Chief Executive Officer, of Coincheck 
Parent. Mr. Simanson was President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thunder Bridge Capital Partners 
IV, Inc. (NASDAQ: THCP) from January 2021 until the December 2024 completion of the Business Combination. 
Mr. Simanson is founder of Thunder Bridge Capital, LLC, a private investment vehicle, and has served as its Chief 
Executive Officer since 2017.  He was Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thunder Bridge Capital Partners 
III, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBCP) from June 2020 until December 2023, Chief Executive Officer and a director of 
Thunder Bridge Acquisition II, Ltd. (NASDAQ: THBR) from February 2019 until completion of its initial business 
combination with indie Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ: INDI) in June 2021, and Chief Executive Officer and a 
director of Thunder Bridge Acquisition, Ltd. (NASDAQ: TBRG) from 2018 until completion of its initial business 
combination with Repay Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: RPAY), an omnichannel payments technology provider. Mr. 
Simanson has also been Managing Director of First Capital Group, L.L.C., an investment banking advisory firm 
specializing in the financial services industry, bank mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, capital raising and 
enterprise risk management, since 1997. He was also a Founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategic Officer of 
Community Bankers Trust Corporation, a $1.2 billion-in-assets bank holding