about asken
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Company Profile
Our company
Company Name
asken Inc. (Formerly known as WIT Inc.)
Location
Tokyo Opera City Tower 42F, 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-1408, Japan
CEO
Hiroshi Nakajima
Establishment
October 1, 2007
Capital Stock
95,000,000 JPY
Major Business
Providing services related to food and health via the Internet
Members
Who we are
Mikiko Michie
Executive Officer
Dietitian
After graduating from the Faculty of Nutrition at Women's University of Nutrition, she joined Green House (a wholly owned parent company). She has worked as a health advisor for more than 100 companies and got involved in the launch of asken in 2007 in charge of its planning, content creation and development. Currently, she is majorly responsible for the asken to-consumer business, as well as the author of the book "Why Doesn't That Man Get Fat Even if He Eats Ramen at Night? (Crossmedia Publishing), etc.
Jiro Amatatsu
Executive Officer
and COO of Asken Inc.
After working at an IT venture, a foreign company and a consulting firm, he founded asken, Inc. in 2007 (formerly known as Wit). He was in charge of planning, requirement definition, marketing and business planning. Currently, he is mainly in charge of business strategy planning, alliances, overseas expansion and data science. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences related to healthcare IT.
Advisors
Advisors
Advisors
Takako Kotake
Outside director
After working as a web director at HAKUHODO i-studio, she joined COOKPAD Inc. in 2004. In 2006, she became the head of the editorial department and, in 2008, she was appointed as an executive officer. In 2010, she won the Nikkei Woman of the Year 2011 award.In 2012, she left COOKPAD Inc. In April 2016, she was appointed General Manager of Branding and Editing at COOKPAD Corporation.
Advisors
Takeshi Yasunishi
Advisor
He has experience in service development and development organization building in organizations of various sizes, such as new service development with Agile Scrum, development organization reform of 100 people, hiring and HR system building as HR manager, development organization management as VPoE, and manager training, etc., at large manufacturer-related companies, user companies, listed ventures, and ventures with about 10 people. Currently, he utilizes these experiences to face the learning of teams, engineers and managers, and develops learning products with domain-driven design.
Advisors
Minoru Moriya
Advisor
Joined MISUMI in 1992 and was engaged in new business development. He is an expert in new business creation. Participated in the establishment of LAXL, CarePro, and other companies. Served as an advisor to HAKUHODO, JAXA, etc., an expert committee member of the Cabinet Office, and artificial intelligence 高档顾问 of Shandong Province.In 2018, Bix and LAXL were listed on the stock exchange for two consecutive months. He is the author of "Let's Take a New Step! ' (Diamond), author of the book.
