Jiro Okochi is CEO of Reval, a company he co-founded in 1999 to bring an Internet technology solution to the underserved market of corporate derivative end-users. Under his leadership, Reval introduced a true Software-as-a-Service solution, which has since evolved from a best-of-breed financial risk management offering to a next generation, all-in-one SaaS for enterprise treasury and risk management.
Bringing 25 years of experience to bear on vision to transform the way companies manage treasury and risk, Mr. Okochi led Reval through two market-changing acquisitions. While Reval’s SaaS has been recognized with several industry awards, Mr. Okochi himself was a 2010 Ernst & Young Metro New York Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance by Treasury & Risk magazine for a fourth time since 2003.
His well-rounded perspective of corporate needs comes from his days serving the end-user community at major global banks, such as West LB, Deutsche Bank, DKB Financial Products (now part of Mizuho), and Security Pacific Bank (now part of Bank of America). Today, he continues to help companies solve complex business issues as a technology innovator and an international author and speaker. His thought leadership extends across treasury management to derivative reform and accounting regulations under both FASB and IASB. In 2009 he testified on behalf of corporate derivative users before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee and was appointed to the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he represented corporate constituents for four years.
Mr. Okochi regularly participates in conferences for the Association of Financial Professionals, Association of Corporate Treasurers, International Association of Corporate Treasurers (China), Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore) and Acumen, among others, and at events with Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Extending his advocacy beyond the corporate environment to the communities they serve, Mr. Okochi leads his company’s corporate responsibility program, Reval Cares, and sits on the boards of the non-profit organizations, Little Kids Rock and Be The Match®, a National Marrow Donor Program®. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Genetics.