Edward Fujimoto
Co-chief Executive Officer Chief Compliance Officer Co-founder @Asteralpine Capital, Llc
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WORK HISTORY
Co-chief Executive Officer Chief Compliance Officer Co-founder @Asteralpine Capital, Llc
US
AsterAlpine Capital is a private fund connecting international and U.S. investors with essential infrastructure assets in sectors such as education, energy, and utilities. Founded by EF International Advisors and strategic partners, AsterAlpine offers a flexible, alternative source of capital for infrastructure projects. A key focus is supporting charter and private schools that face challenges in securing financing—particularly newer institutions or those needing flexibility to expand or restructure their networks and site locations. The fund provides capital for new developments, facility redevelopments, and expansions, prioritizing stable, cash-generating assets and long-term operators.This approach directly builds on founder Ted Fujimoto’s experience from 2009, during the Great Recession, when he helped EPR Properties establish education as a new asset class, leading to $1.6 billion invested in educational facilities at a time when traditional funding sources were limited. Supported by a team with deep expertise in asset management, real estate, and consulting, AsterAlpine employs a proactive approach to risk assessment and opportunity identification, fostering sustainable growth in essential infrastructure investments.
EDUCATION
Pacific Union College
BBA, Bachelors in Business Administration
SKILLS
ABOUT EDWARD FUJIMOTO
For over three decades, Ted has provided solutions to the leadership teams in finance, real estate, education, media & entertainment, insurance, and technology sectors, representing a mix of some of the top worldwide recognized brands and emerging companies. Ted is an entrepreneur at heart and founded his first company at age 18, which began by designing and implementing logistics, customer relationship management, and financial systems. Ted has worked with teams at LVMH, Remy Martin, Air Touch Communications (now part of Verizon), General Motors, IBM, Sony, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation, among others. His work includes supporting the deployment of over $1.6 billion in investment capital, providing strategy that supported over $500 million in philanthropy awarded, providing process and strategy underlying the transformation and redesign of 700 public schools representing students, and designing and developing finance and logistics systems for the deployment of mobile phone networks in 58 countries. He also launched and managed insurance captives that outperformed their peers. One of Ted’s transformative experiences that shaped his work occurred when he became an equity partner in a consulting firm that had a 35+ year track record of redesigning the customer retail network experience for 11 automotive and hospitality brands worldwide. The magic in the firm’s methodology was how organizations can systematically create, replicate, and sustain a completely different culture by changing the mindset of team members and the motivation from extrinsic to intrinsic. Ted believes in the power of education for kids to prepare themselves to be proactive citizens who can be entrepreneurial and create jobs. In his first company, it was a struggle to find team members with the right skills, so he co-founded Napa New Technology High School (1996). The school conducted all learning through projects, modeled after the project management protocols used by his company combined with a focus on creating a culture and team agreement of trust, respect, and responsibility. Ted helped to design and create the replication systems and strategy for several of the highest-performing public school designs in the country that created hundreds of schools. He joined the Board of Directors of the California Credit Union in 2014 after serving as the Supervisory Committee Chair for 9 years. The California Credit Union has grown from $1.4 billion in assets to over $5 billion during this period and completed the largest merger in the sector.
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