Ms Aya Aso | President & Chief Executive Officer
Agora Hospitalities Co.Ltd | Japan

Aya Aso, CPA, is the President & CEO, of Agora Hospitalities Co. Ltd, and Representative Director & CEO of Agora Hospitality Group Co. Ltd.  She manages Agora’s hotel portfolios, which are steadily increasing, such as two boutique resort hotels and an authentic Japanese Ryokan in Nagano Prefecture, a new style comfort hotel in Asakusa Tokyo, two authentic Japanese Ryokans in Izu peninsula, two upscale urban hotels in Osaka and two boutique resort hotels in Kyushu.  She has been with the organisation since 2007.

Aya has a well-established career in the hospitality industry with prior experience at Ishin Hotels Group, as Senior Vice President of Business Development.  Her career began at the Sheraton Grande Los Angeles, from which she moved to the Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel as Marketing Manager.  Returning to her roots, she later joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Japan Group, and then PricewaterhouseCoopers BPO Japan K.K, after which she took on the role of Executive Director of Operations at Space Design Inc.

Aya graduated from the University of Southern California, USA with a Bachelor of Thornton School of Music, Piano Performance.  She also holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Wales, UK.