Yoshi Yokokawa

Yoshi Yokokawa

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alpaca

Yoshi Yokokawa is a fintech entrepreneur and technology innovator focused on transforming global access to financial markets. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure API company and self-clearing broker-dealer that powers hundreds of financial institutions and serves more than 7 million brokerage customers globally.

Yoshi began his career at Lehman Brothers within the securitization team, gaining early exposure to structured finance and global capital markets. Following his time on Wall Street, he became an entrepreneur, co-founding machine learning companies and developing expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data, and financial innovation.

Through Alpaca, Yoshi has built critical financial infrastructure enabling banks, fintech companies, and financial institutions around the world to seamlessly offer trading, investing, and wealth management solutions.

With a unique background spanning traditional finance, artificial intelligence, and fintech infrastructure, Yoshi brings a forward-looking perspective on how technology is reshaping the future architecture of global financial services.