Ayako Ikeda
About Ayako Ikeda
Ayako Ikeda is an Associate Market Manager at Expedia Group in Tokyo, Japan, with a background in market management and human resources.
Company
Ayako Ikeda currently works at Expedia Group as an Associate Market Manager. She has been in this position since 2019, based in the Within 23 wards of Tokyo, Japan.
Title
Ayako Ikeda holds the title of Associate Market Manager at Expedia Group. She was promoted to this position in 2019, after working in various roles within the company since 2015.
Previous Roles at Expedia Group
From 2018 to 2019, Ayako Ikeda worked as a Market Associate focusing on Tokyo & Vicinity. Prior to that, from 2016 to 2018, she served as a Market Associate for the Kyushu & Chushikoku Region. Ayako began her career at Expedia Group as a Market Associate Intern in 2015, working for three months in Tokyo.
Internships and Early Career
In addition to her roles at Expedia, Ayako Ikeda has interned at several organizations. In 2015, she was an HR Intern at Hawley and Associates, LLC in Bellevue, WA for three months. She also interned at White Hotel Group in Ireland for five months in 2013, focusing on hospitality and hotel management. Her career began with a business development role at NTT Communications in Japan, where she worked in B2C acquisition from 2012 to 2013.
Education and Expertise
Ayako Ikeda studied at Bellevue College, where she focused on International Business, Marketing, and Human Resource Management for a year from 2014 to 2015. She also holds a Bachelor of Social Science (B.Soc.Sc) in Culture, Society, and Media from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, having studied there from 2010 to 2016.