Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace
Akiko Hayashi has a diverse range of work experience in sales and marketing roles within the hospitality industry. Akiko is currently the Director of Sales and Marketing at Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace. Prior to that, they worked as a Protocal - Dignitary Assistant at The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Akiko also served as a Senior Consultant at SYS Inc, providing technical and pre-opening consulting services for various properties worldwide. Additionally, Akiko held leadership positions at Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts, Four Seasons Resort Seychelles, Four Seasons Resort Maldives, Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai, and Four Seasons Resorts Bali, where they were responsible for sales and marketing strategies, managing teams, and driving business growth. Throughout their career, Akiko has demonstrated expertise in sales performance support, relationship management, and marketing communications.
Akiko Hayashi began their education at Middletown High School South, where they earned a Diploma of Education in 1989. Following this, they pursued an Associate of Arts degree in Social Sciences teacher education at Kokusai Nihongo Gakuin from 1989 to 1991. In recent years, Akiko attended temahima Inc, where they studied Strategic marketing management from 2019 to 2020. More recently, they enrolled in Harvard Law School, focusing on Social Sciences. Additionally, they completed a Practical translation course at Fellow Academy in 2020-2021.
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Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace
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Ace Hotel Ace Hotel is a collection of individuals — multiple and inclusive — seeking to embrace the cities we live in by building spaces for collective gathering. Whether thoughtfully reinterpreting historic buildings or imagining radical new structures, our aim is always to make something energized, human and soulful. Our hotels are inspired by an affinity for the soulful and fueled by our love for the hyperlocal. A study in contrasts, Ace Hotel marries the pragmatic with the romantic, the private with the collective, the old world with the future. We are guided by empathy and compassion, and believe that the best things in life take conviction, guts and community. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Atelier Ace Atelier Ace is Ace Hotel’s in-house creative, marketing, events, interior, architecture and graphic design team. We’re a curious hybrid — romantics with an unswerving business savvy, easy-going yet driven, casual but elegant. We architect event spaces, rooms, nightly magic, branded campaigns, curios and keepsakes and see the hotel as a potential for real, fluid community. With everything we do, we try to collaborate with and celebrate people whose work inspires us. We like the stories that come with things and think that wherever you are, you should feel like you’re there.