PopulStay Welcomes New Advisor: Masakazu Eshiro
Masakazu Eshiro joins PopulStay to help the company expand its influence in the Japanese market
Tourism is growing worldwide but what is happening in Japan in the recent years is simply outstanding. Today, Japan is the world’s fastest growing travel destination. About 28.7 million overseas travellers stayed in Japan in 2017, a rise of 334 per cent since 2010¹.
What about innovations?
Japan understands the huge effects that blockchain technology currently has on the global economy. This is one of the reasons why PopulStay as a company has been supported by Tokyo Metropolitan Government². This encouraged the founder of PopulStay, Dr. Walter Wang, to focus on the Japanese market and search for talented people to join the project in Japan.
As a result, following Emi Wada and Yuki Okuno, one more Japanese advisor, Masakazu Eshiro, joined PopulStay to assist the company with marketing and promoting the project in Japan.
About Masakazu Eshiro
Masakazu Eshiro graduated from Osaka University, where he specialized in materials and engineering manufacturing science. After graduating, Mr. Eshiro entered Toyota and worked as a mechanical engineer for 5 years. Later he became the CEO of MTL, enabling growing from $4 million to $17 million in just one year.
Masakazu Eshiro saved several companies from bankruptcy and successfully led them to a V-shaped recovery in two years. Lately he has been working for GLM, a Japanese electric sportscar automaker, being responsible for the sales of the G4 electric supercar. As a strategic planner at GLM, Mr. Eshiro has recently introduced the G4 supercar to the European Union and China.
The PopulStay team hopes that Mr. Eshiro will bring years of experience and industry resources to help PopulStay. Together with Emi Wada and Yuki Okuno, who joined earlier, he will help enhance the influence of PopulStay in Japan and around the world.
The PopulStay has a strong team of consultants, including Jeffrey Wernick and his team in the field of economy; the chairperson of CHTA (China Hotel Technology Alliance), Zhu Jing, in the travel industry; SBX data scientist Sucheendra Kumar specializing in all modalities of machine learning and mathematical modeling; and a number of advisors familiar with local markets.
The mission of PopulStay is to help people travel more by creating the perfect all-around hospitality experience. PopulStay is grateful to the members of the advisory board for their contribution to the project, and the company is looking forward to meeting more people who would share our values.
