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Will Schoeberlein

Director of Group Corporate Development at Mercari

Tokyo

Overview

Work Experience

  • Director of Group Corporate Development

    2023 - Current

    Explore global innovation & pursue inorganic growth opportunities, including partnerships, Joint Ventures, minority investments & M&A

  • Investing & Business Building

    2013

    Encompasses various entrepreneurial efforts & consultant engagements Select past activities & projects include: - Investing in both publicly listed & private Japanese technology companies; - Efforts around the Japanese SMB serial acquirer opportunity; - Time spent as an investment analyst at globally focused L/S public equities investment firm in SE Asia I share my thoughts on business & investing at https://japanbi.substack.com/

  • U.S. Lead - Late Stage Private Technology Investing

    2020 - 2021

    Investing in primarily late-stage technology companies in the U.S. & Japan

  • Chief Of Staff To Co-Founder & President

    2019 - 2020

    Nexus is the leading provider of Accounts Payable and Payments Automation software for the Real Estate industry. During this time, Nexus was backed by San Francisco based growth equity investor, Mainsail Partners

  • Corporate Development & Strategy

    2016 - 2018

    Provider of electronic health record and practice management Software-as-a-Service solutions to the behavioral health market. During this time, Credible was backed by Goldman Sachs' growth equity investing team

  • Private Equity Associate

    2011 - 2013

    Middle market private equity predominately focused on technology-enabled business services, light manufacturing and consumer services companies.

  • M&A & Restructuring Investment Banking Analyst

    2009 - 2011

    Industry generalist working within mergers & acquisitions in addition to corporate restructuring and special situations

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