Hideaki Fukutake

He is CEO of New Zealand company STILL that is focused on New Zealand-based opportunities to enhance art, culture and community through business, social enterprise and projects.

[2][3] Fukutake's family is known their work creating Benesse Art Site and for revitalising Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima islands in the Seto Inland Sea which were polluted by copper refineries emitting sulphur dioxide and by illegally dumped industrial waste.

[2][6] STILL's interest is companies that enhance art, culture and community and is an intergenerational organisation with a long term outlook.

[2] STILL is a group of New Zealand companies including the World of Wearable Art, SHAPE Energy,[7] National Candles,[8] design agency DDMMYY,[9] Queenstown's Hulbert House Hotel,[10] Consult Recruitment,[11] and Auckland's Metro Magazine.

[14] In 2023, Fukutake announced the intention to privatise the company via a management buyout with Swedish investment house EQT.