Tim Coomber
Representative Director, Change Management Japan / Chief Catalyst, Platform One KK / Senior Advisor, TMF Japan KK

Tim Coomber is Representative Director of Change Management Japan, offering coaching, training and project management services; Senior Advisor to TMF Japan KK, a global outsourcer of administrative services and Chief Catalyst at Platform One KK, a business start-up support company. He is also a Professor on the MBA in Globalisation programme at the Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds a Master of Science degree in Business Systems Analysis and Design and a Bachelors degree in Business Studies. Tim has spent much of his career working in Japan with Beecham, Schroders, Triumph and Societe Generale before setting up his own company IN CONTROL, in 2000. IN CONTROL became part of TMF in 2007. He has also worked in UK and Saudi Arabia and has business experience in US, Singapore, Hong Kong and Denmark.

Tim Marrable
Representative Director, First Line K.K

Tim Marrable is representative director of First Line K.K., a supplier of compliance consulting, and specialist interpreting, translation and certification training services to the finance industry. Tim graduated with a first class honours degree in Japanese and Linguistics from Sheffield University’s Centre for Japanese Studies in 1978 and attended Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku as a Japanese government sponsored researcher specialising in computer-assisted translation. He spent over 20 years working for European investment banks in Tokyo before setting up independently. He was awarded his financial analyst charter (CFA) in 1993, recently became a governor on the board of the CFA Society of Japan and in 2005 was called to the Bar of England & Wales.