島津 恵理奈 | SHIMAZU ERINA

岡 雄大 | YUTA OKA

Staple Inc., CEO

Raised in the US and Japan, Yuta has always had strong interest in discovering new cultures and tracing their roots through travel. Through Staple, he realizes his passion in tracing those roots by creating hotels as a medium to express each locale, and by getting involved in broader neighborhood development. Yuta started his career in real estate and hotel investments at Starwood Capital Group's Tokyo and San Francisco offices. After Starwood, he co-founded a boutique asset management and consulting business focused on small luxury hotels and had the opportunity to work with multiple luxury resort brands. BA Waseda University, Global Political Economy.

鈴木 慎一郎 | SHINICHIRO SUZUKI

He was born in Fukushima. He was brought up with respect for the seniors of his hometown.He started a career as a chef in Curry Dining Bar M of Fukushima. After that, he was a chef, bartender, and receptionist in ""toco."" & ""Nui. HOSTEL & BAR LOUNGE""of Backpackers' Japan Co. He emigrated to Sedota in 2020.For him, it is one of the important tasks to build good relations with local people in the country. He built administration from the opening of business preparations for SOIL Setoda and acts as Manager now.
Graduated from Fukushima University.

黒井 さゆり | Sayuri Kuroi

春日 咲 | Saki Kasuga

松本 雄輝 | Yuki Matsumoto

二瓶 涼 | Ryo Nihei

池田 将巨 | Masaomi Ikeda

奈良生まれ、奈良育ち。子供の頃から身近に古墳や神社がある中で育ったからか幼い頃は考古学者になるのを夢見ていた。15歳の時にたまたまテレビで見た料理番組でパティシエが作っていたデザートに心を奪われパティシエになる決心をする。

奈良のパティスリーから始まり、レストラン、ホテル、商品開発と様々な業態でパティシエとして働く。

パティシエのスキルを活かしながら、地方を盛り上げられるような会社で働けないかと模索していた時にStapleに出会い、半ばゴリ押しで入社。

川口 貴之 | TAKAYUKI KAWAGUCHI

田嶋 香奈 | Kana Tajima | K5

辻 晴香 | Haruka Tsuji | K5

山崎 萌 | Moe Yamazaki | Parklet

鎌田 萌 | Moe Kamata | Parklet

原 寛斗 | HIROTO HARA

Born and raised in Ama City, Aichi Prefecture in 1997. I have a personality that tends to see many things in a positive light, which sometimes leads to hitting walls. After graduating from university, I left my hometown and started working as an elementary school teacher in Yokohama City, learning alongside the children. I always aimed to put the "children" first in every aspect of learning activities. However, feeling the limitations of the number of people I could impact in my lifetime, I decided to join Staple. At Staple, I aspire to be like a "bolt" that holds various teams together, focusing mainly on labor-related tasks.

I live in Shonan, and on my days off, I enjoy riding my Harley. However, due to a past traumatic experience, I'm still a bit afraid of entering the ocean.

藤澤 優 | Fujisawa Yu

Born in Osaka Prefecture, I spent every day immersed in baseball from the age of 5 to 18.

At the age of 19, I started my career in the entertainment industry after being scouted, primarily working in theater and modeling. As I pursued this career, I began to wonder how I could gain more recognition and decided to improve my English skills, leading me to study abroad in the Philippines and Canada. While in Canada, I worked as a barista while studying performing arts. Although I had planned to attend university in Canada, I had to give up that opportunity due to the social climate at the time.

After returning to Japan, I resumed my work in the entertainment industry but felt a growing desire to deepen my involvement in my barista work, which I had continued on the side. Currently, I’m studying from scratch as a GM to learn store management. My role model is Kanako Watanabe.

鈴木 和師 | Kazushi Suzuki

Born and raised on Kouzushima Island, Tokyo. Inspired by his grandmother, who ran a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn), he developed an interest in the hospitality industry from a young age and joined Suisei. After spending two years working as a live-in hotel staff member in Hokkaido, he moved to Kyoto, where he was responsible for business development and promotion of the CHILLNN reservation system for accommodation providers.

He was drawn to Staple for two reasons: the newly established Corporate Planning team, which requires broad, generalist thinking, and the potential for developing native applications unique to Staple.

In the future, he hopes to bring his experiences and the things he values back to his hometown by expressing them through an inn of his own, where he can continue working on what he loves.

渡邊 加奈子 | KANAKO WATANABE

Director/K5 General Manager
Born and raised in Ibaraki prefecture, to a family that has been running a hotel for 4 generations. Kanako decided to be part of the Hospitality industry after visiting many hotels and ryokans with her family in her childhood. Despite working with major hotels and ryokans to fulfill her dreams, the business operations has been a challenge for her and decided to go Southeast Asia by herself. She co-founded a retail business, trained more than 50 staff of different origins. There, she engaged in store branding, space design and development for other stores. After working overseas with product development, she started to realize the impact of not just the front but also managing behind the scenes. October 2019 back to Japan, she then joined Staple as the development project manager of HOTEL K5. As of July 2021, she became the General Manager, working hard with her team to build a new hotel industry for future hoteliers.
Graduated from Japan Hotel School

清永 真紀 | MAKI KIYONAGA

Staple Inc., Director
Born and raised in Kumamoto, Maki started her career as a back officer at a company in Kumamoto city, where she very much loved. In the year she turned 30, Maki went to London that she loved for many years. Through the study at City University and the life there, Maki came to think she would like to choose to spend her time with people, things, and time that move her heart.
After returning to Japan, she decided to restart her career in Tokyo, not Kumamoto, as an accounting staff at a couple of hotels. In 2021, Maki joined Staple, and now mainly in charge of accounting in Corporate division.

Naru Developments

早瀬 文智と岡 雄大によって創業された旅館及びホテルの企画・開発・運営会社。 日本各地へのチェーン展開ではなく、土地の声を聞きその場所が持つ歴史や風土、慣習に思いを馳せながら開発を行い、実が成るようにその場を育てていく運営を目指しています。

しおまち企画

「住みたいまち、しおまち」を目指す瀬戸田地域のソフトデベロッパー。 尾道市・地域DMOとともに「しおまちとワークショップ」を開催し、地域内外の人々や企業が加わり、地域課題の解決に向け、さまざまなまちづくりのアイデアを提案、実践してきました。2021年にSOIL Setodaを開業後は、シャッターが目立つしおまち商店街を中心に空き家のリノベや小商用の店舗区画と住宅を併設したユニットの開発を進めていくことで、街に多様性をもたらし、「すみたい街」であるための開発を行なっています。

Terrain

東京とカリフォルニアを拠点に調理器具の製作と自社出版等の活動をするクリエティブスタジオTerasuと共に創業。同じ価値観を持つ生産者、シェフ、デザイナー、アーティストといったあらゆる人々が、その土地の風土を食の観点から引き出すことを目的に集い、活動しています。時には環境再生型農業によって栽培された豆を専門に取り扱うコーヒーロースターを、SOILが展開する先々で飲食店を、そして時には独立した店舗を運営することもあれば、食材の研究開発も行います。

FERMENT

飲食・人・ホテルを通しそれぞれの手法で都市とローカルを構想する3社（Media Surf Communications inc. , Haku inc, , Staple inc.)が2019年11月に設立、2020年2月にオープンした日本橋兜町のマイクロ複合施設「K5」を企画・開発。現在はHOTEL K5の運営を行っています。“REVITALIZE THE CITY（街の再活性化）“のビジョンの下、街に強い点を打ち、この場所からユニークなカルチャーやコミュニティを生み出すことを目指します。