Mahoko Hikita

Mahoko Hikita is Vice President, Manager of Corporate Access & Research Services for the Global Value Team where she leads the team’s in-house Corporate Access capabilities. She also helps manage the brokerage and research partnerships for the Global Value team with the Head of Stewardship. Before joining First Eagle Investments in July 2017, Mahoko worked at Daiwa Capital Markets America as associate director of corporate access, where she arranged roadshows and investor events for Asian and Japanese companies in North America. Prior to Daiwa, Mahoko was a member of Corporate Marketing team at the Americas and Tokyo divisions of CLSA Ltd. She facilitated all fronts of corporate access including reverse roadshows and large-scale investor conferences. She began her career at Accenture Japan. Mahoko received her bachelor’s degree from Osaka University, School of Foreign Studies.