{
  "id": 10698186,
  "title": "Ara Partners hires ACON Investments CFO Masumi Waida as finance chief",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/ara-partners-hires-acon-investments-cfo-masumi-waida-as-finance-chief",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-29T13:13:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PE Hub",
    "slug": "pe-hub",
    "url": "https://www.pehub.com/ara-partners-hires-acon-investments-cfo-masumi-waida-as-finance-chief/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Waida will lead corporate and fund finance, accounting, tax and treasury He will build out Ara’s finance and operations function Ara manages around $10.6 billion across three strategies Ara Partners has appointed Masumi Waida as chief financial officer. Waida joins from ACON Investments, a mid-market private equity firm where he also served as chief financial […] The post Ara Partners hires ACON…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}