Hideki Sasabe

NCP is an active manager which contributes skills, experience and capital to help revive and build value in distressed small and medium-sized Japanese businesses across sectors including manufacturing, banking and engineering. The firm seeks to invest in companies with growth potential which need to improve their performance as well as in growing companies which aim to expand. They partner with their investee companies, providing staff members and external directors to provide management support. NCP restructures their investee companies, enhancing their finances, implementing changes to increase employee motivation (such as introducing performance-related bonuses, achievement-oriented performance reviews) and restructuring their marketing and business strategy to further growth of their core business. The firm aims to revitalize a distressed firm in approximately three years.