your health management partner
- Contribution to Health, Beauty, and Anti-aging
- Creation of "Smile" through Fitness Exercise & Sports
- Coach of Sumo Team at Rikkyo University (since 2003)
- Member of Board of the Eastern Japan College Sumo Federation
- MBA 2003 (HEC Paris)
- Languages : English, French, Russian, Japanese
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- Development and Production of Fitness Equipments
- Development and Education of Fitness Exercises
| Nao SAKATA, MBA (President & Founder) Coach of Rikkyo University Sumo Team, 2-dan in Sumo |
| 2003 MBA, HEC Paris (France) 1995 BA in Sociology, Rikkyo Univirsity (Tokyo, Japan) 1989 Exchange student at Episcopal High School (Virginia, USA) |
| 2006 Founded SANTEPLUS. 2003-2006 Worked at Michelin Japan as General Manager 1995-2000 Worked at Panasonic in Japan and in Russia 1971 Born in Tokyo, Japan |
| Hideo NUMAZAWA, MS (Executive Adivisor) Professor at Rikkyo University, specialized in Sports & Wellness Head Coach of Rikkyo Track & Field Team |
| 1988 MS in Coaching, Juntendo University 1986 BA in Sports Science, Juntendo University |
| 1994 Assistant Professor at Rikkyo University 1987 4th place of 400m Hurdle at All Japan Track & Field 1992 Started his career at Rikkyo University 1963 Born in Yamagata, Japan |
| Company | SANTEPLUS, Inc. |
| President | Naoaki SAKATA, MBA |
| Founded | May 15th, 2006 |
| Contact |
1-7-8 Kaigan, Tokyo Trade Center 6th floor Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0022 JAPAN TEL. +81-3-3437-3135 FAX. +81-3-6203-8368 Email:info@flexcushion.com |
| Website | http://www.flexcushion.com/ |
| Related Company | SANTEPLUS, LLC (San Francisco, CA, USA) for sales and distribution in the US Email:info@flexcushion.com |
| Membership | Associate Member of IHRSA in '08 Member of Tokyo Chamber of Commerce since 2006 Support Member of NSCA Japan since 2008 Visionary Sponsor for Inner IDEA® 2009  |
| Our Business | Development & Production of Fitness Equipments Development & Education of Fitness Exercises |
| Our Clients | Medco Sports Medicine (Tonawanda, NY) Athercare Fitness & Rehabilitation (Castro Valley, CA) YogaNamastacy.com (CA) THE INNER SPCACE (Avon, CT) Pilates on Fifth (New York City, NY) Japan's Soccer National Team Japan's Men's Volleyball National Team Japan's Table Tennis National Team Tokyo Yomiuri Giants(baseball) Tokyo Yakult Swallows(baseball) Chiba Lotte Marines (baseball) Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (babeball) Yokohama Baystars(Baseball) Saitama Seibu Lions(baseball) Rakuten Golden Eagles (baseball) Hokkaido Nipponham Fighters (baseball) TIPNESS (nationwide health club, Japan) Central Sports (nationwide health club, Japan) Renaissance (nationwide health club, Japan) Hotel New Otani (Tokyo) Hotel Grand Padific Le Daiba (Tokyo) RIHGA Royal Hotel (Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima) Pilates Alliance (Tokyo) NPO Japan Stretching Association Runners (marathon magazine & shopping) Tokyu Hands Department Store (Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka) ISETAN Men's (most prestigous department store, Tokyo) Catalog House (Catalogue shopping) All Nippon Airways Trading (ANA Sky Shopping) Club Business Japan Panasonic Electric Workers Unions Tokai University Judo Team (Japan) Kokushikan University Judo Team (Japan) Yokohama F. Marinos (Soccer, J1) Jubilo Iwata (Soccer, J1) Omiya Ardija (Soccer, J1) Kyoto Purple Sanga (Soccer, J1) Fukushima University Track & Field Team Fujitsu Track & Field Team NEC Green Rockets (Top Leaugue Rugby) Rikkyo University Ritsumeikan University Hokusho University The University of Electro-Communications Komazawa Girls' University etc. |
| 2006/05 | Founded SANTEPLUS, Inc. Prototype of Flexcushion made |
| 2006/06 |
Produced "SumoCoreExercise" Moved to Minato Incubation Center, publicly recognized incubation center |
| 2006/08 | Patent & Trademark application for Flexcushion, and Trademark application for SANTEPLUS |
| 2006/09 | Started mass production of Flexcushion |
| 2006/10 |
Launched Flexcushion in Japan Nikkei Industrial, nationwide recognized newspaper, reported the debut of Flexcushion |
| 2006/10 | Exhibited at Japan Incubation Forum Nao SAKATA joined Panel Discussion for business incubation at Tokyo Big Site |
| 2006/12 | Pilates on Fifth in New York City introduced Flexcushion, the first user in the United States |
| 2007/01 | Fujisankei Business i newspaper focused on Sumo deprived Flexcushion on the top page |
| 2007/02 | Japan's Professional baseball teams started to use Flexcushion, as well as leading marathon, and track & field teams |
| 2007/07 | TIPNESS, one of the largest nationwide fitness club in Japan, introduced Flexcushion for group lesson "Active Stretch" at all their 54 branches |
| 2007/07 | Runners, a well-known marathon magazine, reported on Flexcushion as one of 50 focused products & people in marathon world |
| 2007/11 | Nikkei Health, the leading magazine for health wrote 4 pages article about Flexcushion |
| 2008/01 |
Flexcushion appeared in ANA SKY SHOP, Japan's airline company. Japan's leading Judo team, Kokushikan & Tokai University, introduced Flexcushion |
| 2008/03 |
Flexcushion exhibited at IHRSA 2008 Trade Show in San Diego DVD-Video "Stretch & Exercise with Flexcushion" launched |
| 2008/04 | Professional Sumo Bout "Takasago" and "Tamanoi" started using Flexcushion |
| 2008/06 | Nao Sakata (President & Founder) teached at Rikkyo University Entrepreneurship class |
| 2008/10 | Professional Soccer Team in Japan (J1), Pro Ski team started using the Flexcushion |
| 2008/12 | Norika Fujiwara, a Japanese super famous actress introduced Flexcushion as her favorite equipment in the fashion magazine "Grazia" and "VoCE". |
| 2009/01 | Exhibited at NSCA SSTC Conference in Nashville, TN |
| 2009/03 | Teacher Training Course for "Yoga with Flexcushion" started in Japan, with Takako Yamada, Master Trainer for Yoga |
| 2009/03 | "Yoga with Flexcushion" demonstrated at JAFA forum Tokyo, Japan's biggest fitness convention |
| 2009/08 | "Pilates with Flexcushion" demonstraded at JAFA forum Yokohama by Kaori Yoshida, Japan's largest fitness convention |
| 2009/09 | Flexcushion sessions, "Pilates" by Katherine & Kimberly, "Yoga" by Laura Sachs, demonstrated at Inner IDEA Conference in Palm Springs, CA |
| 2009/09 | "Yoga with Flexcushion" demonstrated at Yoga Festa 2009 in Yokohama, the largest Yoga convention in Japan |
| 2009/09 | Zoey Trap (Peak Pilates Master Traine) did "Pilates with Flexcushion" workshop at the Peak Pilates Convention in Tokyo |
| 2009/12 | Flexcushion exhibited at Japan Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (JPBATS) in Hiroshima |
| 2010/01 | Flexcushion exhibited at MLB PBATS in San Francisco, CA Tokyo Giants and its many players started to use Flexcushion |
| 2010/03 | SANTEPLUS, LLC established in California Japan's largest newspaper "Yomiuri" reported Flexcushion as a selection by professionals |
| 2010/06 | Flexcushion exhibited at NATA Conference in Philadelphia, PA |
| 2010/06 | The first "Sumo Core Exercise" lesson in the United States at "THE INNERSPACE"in Avon, CT |
| 2010/08 | Flexcushion sessions demonstrated at IDEA World Fitness Convention in Los Angeles Yoga by Stacy McCarthy, and Pilates by Katherine & Kimberly Corp |
