Mahoko Hikita

Mahoko Hikita is director 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. Prior to joining First Eagle in July 2017, Mahoko was associate director of Corporate Access at Daiwa Capital Markets America, where she arranged roadshows and investor events for Asian and Japanese companies in North America. Before that, she was a member of the 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 earned a BA in foreign studies from Osaka University, School of Foreign Studies.