Chinatsu Aoyama

Fiera Capital, a global asset management firm based in Montreal, Canada, has hired Chinatsu Aoyama as director, private markets specialist, Fiera Capital Asia, to bolster the presence of the company’s private markets platform in the Japanese market.

Based in Tokyo, Aoyama will support the distribution of Fiera Capital’s full range of private markets strategies to Japanese investors. Reporting to CJ Morrell, managing director, head of Japan at Fiera Capital Asia, Aoyama will work closely with clients and prospects to deepen engagement with these strategies in Japan.

Fiera Capital’s private markets platform has approximately US$15 billion in assets under management across 20 strategies worldwide, spanning real estate debt and equity, natural capital, infrastructure, private credit, and private equity.

With over 15 years’ experience in investor relations in Japan, Aoyama was formerly a director at HQ Capital, a leading global private equity firm, based in Singapore. There, she was responsible for business development for institutional and private investors in Japan. Previously, she held roles in business development and investments at Squadron Capital, worked as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group, and began her career at Citigroup.

Fiera says the appointment reflects its continued commitment to growing its presence in Japan, where the company is meeting increasing investor demand for differentiated, actively managed private markets solutions. It follows the opening of a Tokyo office in October 2025 as part of the growth of the company’s regionalized distribution network, with other recent office openings including Abu Dhabi, Zurich, Madrid and The Hague.

As part of its growing focus on Japan, the company appointed ex-Nomura asset management veteran Takafumi Sudo as chief operating officer and chief compliance officer, Japan, Fiera Capital Asia, in May 2025.