Corporate Profile

Company Name

FSC Hospitality K.K.

Established

February 17, 2021

Address

Aska V Nihombashi 7F, 1-3 Nihombashi Odenmacho Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0011

Representative

Minoru Nabeshima

Capital

JPY 10M

Business Services

• 1. Operation and Management of Hotels
• 2. Contract Operation, Asset Management and Planning & Development of Hotels
• 3. Consulting Services related to Management and Investment of Hotels
• 4. Sales, Exchange and Lease of Real Estate
• 5. Charged Employment Placement Business
• 6. All Services related to the above listed Business Services

メンバー

• Minoru Nabeshima

  Minoru Nabeshima, President and Co-founder, has over 40 years of development, asset management and hotel management experience.

  Prior to joining FSC Hospitality, he was a co-founder and responsible for hotel management, development, and asset management throughout Japan, especially for Hulic hotel deals, at Sakia Hospitality. Most of the hotel deals done by Hulic was preliminary valuated. While at Sakia Hospitality, he successfully developed and opened four of the Gate Hotels, and increased asset value through operating those four assets realizing higher investment return for each hotel.

  Prior to Sakia, he served as a member of the board and Deputy General Manager at Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay. He joined as an opening member of the hotel in 1988 and led numerous projects, successfully creating differentiation and a competitive edge for the hotel.

  During that time, he held prominent positions such as Chief Room Department Officer, Chief Food and Beverage Department Officer, and Assistant General Manager as well as Sales Department Officer.

  He started his career at Nippon View Hotel and oversaw accounting. He joined the launch and opening of Asakusa View Hotel as a member of its lodging department.

• Anna Masatsuki

  Anna Masatsuki, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of FSC Hospitality, oversees advisory and asset management.

  From 2007, she was a co-founder of Sakia Hospitality and led hotel acquisitions, hotel asset management, valuation, operational and financial analysis. She worked advising domestic and international hotel investors, hospitality business companies, franchise operators, development by hotel owner companies, transactions, turnaround, and repositioning projects in the hospitality industry.

  Prior to working with Sakia Hospitality, she was involved in underwriting and due diligence for numerous hotel transactions and portfolio reporting at Goldman Sachs Realty Japan. She oversaw systems improvement and investor report activities in the portfolio management department of Goldman Sachs Realty. In the hospitality asset management department, she worked on asset management of fifteen hotel portfolios exceeding 100 billion yen, followed by hotel investments in the acquisitions department.

  She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She acquired her Certificate for Real Estate and Hotel Investment in the Professional Development Program at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. She is on the board of the Japan Hospitality Asset Managers Association.

• Hiroki Shimizu

  Hiroki Shimizu is Managing Director of Business Development at FSC Hospitality.

  Prior to working with FSC Hospitality, he has managed, led or consulted developments to hotels, restaurants, resorts, and ryokans throughout Japan at Sakia Hospitality.

  He started his career at Mitsui Kanko Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. (currently GRANVISTA Hotels & Resorts Co., Ltd.), where he built his portfolio as Marketing Department Chief of Sapporo Park Hotel, Corporate Marketing Director, Senior Managing Director and General Manager of Asahikawa Grand Hotel, Assistant Manager followed by Sales Development Department Chief of Sapporo Grand Hotel. As a selected member of the Revitalization Project by the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan, he was responsible for marketing strategy for properties and headquarters, product development, sales strategy, and branding.

  He has accumulated a vast variety of experiences in the operations of hotels, Japanese-style ryokan hotels, and leisure facilities. He is a graduate of the Iowa State University Hospitality Management Department.

• Kazuko Matsushima

  Kazuko Matsushima is Managing Director of the Hotel Operations Division at FSC Hospitality.

  Prior to joining FSC Hospitality, she managed the Gate Hotel as a director of Sales & Marketing, where she focuses on marketing communications and revenue management.

  Prior to Sakia Hospitality, she was engaged for seven years in revenue management, CRM, publicity, and marketing at the Royal Park Hotel Shiodome.

  At Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel, she worked as lodging operations staff and revenue analyst, followed by a position in revenue management. She created the revenue management system in the lodging, restaurant and banquet departments. She then became project leader of hotel revitalization projects at a real estate development company where she was involved in rebranding, product development, and sales strategy.

  She is a graduate of Grossmont College in California. She acquired her Certificate for Revenue Management at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.

• Naoto Okuda

  Naoto Okuda serves as Senior Director of Business Development Division at FSC Hospitality, where he is actively involved in concept development, the establishment of hotel operation, pre-opening activities, and business restructuring in hotel development. He joined FSC Hospitality as one of the founding members of The Gate Hotel team, contributing to the opening of The Gate Hotel Kaminarimon. Subsequently, he played a key role in product development, branding and the hotel development of The Gate Hotel Tokyo, The Gate Hotel Kyoto Takasegawa, and The Gate Hotel Ryogoku as Development Manager.

  Prior to his tenure at FSC Hospitality, Okuda served as Front Office Manager for The Westin Sendai, where he was responsible for the opening and operations of the hotel. During the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, he was in charge of providing accommodation and meals for evacuees on-site, gaining valuable insights into how hotels can effectively respond during disasters.

  His career commenced with a position in butler service and later gained experience as an Assistant Manager in Front Reception at the Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel. He is a graduate of Schiller International University in Florida, USA with a major in Hotel Management.

• Eiji Saito

  Eiji Saito is Managing Director of the Innovation Division, where he focuses on IT and new solutions on both new hotel development and hotels under management.

  Prior to FSC Hospitality, he was Director of Information Technology at Sakia Hospitality, developing IT for the Gate Hotel, and other hotel development projects done by Sakia.

  After spending two years in the F&B and accounting departments at Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel, he was appointed to the information systems department where he was responsible for systems operation and maintenance, development, and new systems incorporation. He then joined Starwood Hotels and Resorts and oversaw IT strategy and systems design and development, systems modification, launch and maintenance, in all Starwood hotels nationwide.

  Recent endeavors have included development projects at the St. Regis Osaka Hotel and Sheraton Grande Hotel Hiroshima, where he was responsible as IT Project Leader for ideation to set-up, education and maintenance.

• Haruhiko Takeuchi

  Haruhiko Takeuchi serves as the Senior Manager of the Hotel Operations Division at FSC Hospitality, overseeing comprehensive sales and marketing operations for the Gate Hotel series. His responsibilities extend to the conceptualization and implementation of lodging-related systems, encompassing reservation and sales systems as well as revenue management, for both new hotel development and rebranding initiatives.

  Prior to his tenure at FSC Hospitality, Takeuchi accrued valuable experience at Royal Park Hotels. Initially, he dedicated six and a half years to front desk operations at Shiodome Tower, where he honed his skills in guest service. Subsequently, he transitioned to a role in revenue management at Iconic Tokyo Shiodome, where he supervised revenue strategies for five hotels in the Kyoto area. Additionally, he contributed as a project member to the successful launch of the Royal Park Canvas Ginza Corridor, focusing on optimizing the sales environment.

  His career commenced with positions in guest service across various facets of the hospitality industry, including restaurants, banquet services, and lodging departments, at InterContinental Tokyo Bay.

• Risa Yamazaki

  Risa Yamazaki is Manager of the Hotel Operations Division at FSC Hospitality being in charge of overall marketing for the existing hotels and ones under development.

  Prior to joining FSC Hospitality, she was in charge of SNS and contents marketing focused on owned media as Marketing Manager of the Gate Hotel.

  She started her career as a guest service staff at Royal Park Hotel Shiodome, and then she was involved in media relations, owned media management as well as event planning and product developments. Also, she gained experience in categorization and rebranding of hotels in cooperation with the headquarters and was engaged in various types of operations from city hotel to hotel specialized in lodging.