PathSpot is a New York-based health and safety company for the food service industry. Its flagship HandScanner uses visible-light fluorescence spectroscopy to detect invisible contaminants on employees' hands in about two seconds, flagging the molecules that carry norovirus, E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria and Hepatitis A. Around that scanner the company built SafetySuite, a connected hardware-and-software platform covering temperature logging, digital task lists and food labeling. PathSpot operates in more than 10,000 food service locations worldwide.
Brad Olson runs Sollis Health, the members-only concierge urgent and emergency care company that treats your time as the real luxury. He came to medicine sideways - from Bain consulting to Starwood's loyalty empire to Peloton's first 100 employees - and now applies the playbook of emotional loyalty and hospitality to a 15,000-member, 11-clinic operation where the average wait to see an ER-boarded doctor is zero to fifteen minutes. His pitch is blunt: if any consumer business ran like a hospital ER, it would be out of business the next day.
Airbnb is a global travel marketplace that lets hosts rent out homes, rooms, and experiences to guests in more than 220 countries and regions. Born in 2008 from three air mattresses on a San Francisco apartment floor, it turned spare space into a category-defining business, went public in 2020 at roughly a $100 billion valuation, and in 2025 expanded beyond stays into Services and a redesigned Experiences product - positioning itself as an everything app for travel.
John Paul is a Paris-based premium concierge and customer-loyalty company that operates white-label services for luxury brands and enterprises. Founded in 2007-2008 by David Amsellem, it pairs human concierges with a proprietary CRM platform to manage the relationships brands have with their most valuable clients and employees. After merging with US rival LesConcierges in 2015, it was acquired by AccorHotels in 2016 and now runs as a business accelerator inside the Accor group, serving clients such as Visa, Hyundai, Orange and luxury houses across automotive, finance, fashion and travel.
Morpho Travel Experience is a Latin American travel-retail and food-and-beverage operator that turns airport corridors, hotels and tourist hubs into theatrical, locally-rooted stores and restaurants. From a single Costa Rican airport shop opened in 2001, it has grown into a roughly US$160 million operation with more than 2,800 employees and 300-plus commercial spaces across 11 countries, built on a 'sense of place' philosophy that puts regional craft, food and culture at the center of the traveler's journey.
Radiate Hospitality is a Palo Alto-based hotel and real-estate management company that develops, renovates, and operates a portfolio of boutique and branded hotels across the West Coast. Formerly known as BPR Properties, the firm runs 11 hotels with roughly 988 rooms - from the Autograph Collection Hi-Lo Hotel in Portland to the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto - guided by a mission of 'passionately creating a sense of belonging.'
Smith is an Asbury Park-based hospitality group that grew out of a 1990s branding and design studio. Beginning in 2006 with Brickwall Tavern, its partners helped restart a stalled downtown, then built a collective of restaurants and bars - Porta, Pascal & Sabine, Homesick, and Lovesick - that pair scratch kitchens with art-filled rooms. Smith treats hospitality as an instrument of urban renewal, designing, branding, and operating each venue in-house.
The Bay Club Company is a membership-based active lifestyle and hospitality company headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1977 with the nation's first co-ed fitness club, it now operates a growing collection of resort-inspired clubs organized into regional campuses across the West Coast - the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Pacific Northwest. Built on four points of focus - fitness, sports, family, and hospitality - the company serves a community of 135,000-plus members with tennis, swimming, squash, golf, pickleball, group exercise, family programs, dining, and spa services. Backed by KKR, Bay Club is in an aggressive expansion phase, acquiring regional operators to scale toward 50-plus clubs and over 200,000 members.
Heavenly Massage is the brand persona behind A Heavenly Foot Massage & Spa, a premier reflexology and therapeutic massage destination at 5510 PGA Boulevard, Suite 109, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Established in 2014, the spa has built a reputation for exceptional foot massages, full-body treatments, and facial services in a clean, welcoming environment. Ranked among the top spas in Palm Beach Gardens on TripAdvisor, the business combines traditional reflexology techniques with modern therapeutic approaches, offering everything from deep tissue massage and lymphatic drainage to European facials and micro-needling. The person behind the brand holds the titles of VP Operations and CMO, driving the spa's growth and marketing presence.
Adriana Echandi Bachtold is the Group CEO of Morpho Travel Experience, a Latin American travel retail and food & beverage powerhouse with over 2,800 employees across 11 countries. Starting as a cashier-seller at what was then Grupo Britt in 2002, she rose through every rung of the organization to become CEO - overseeing 300+ commercial spaces in 23 airports serving 78 million passengers annually. Named Businesswoman of the Year 2022 by Costa Rica's El Financiero and a Moodie Davitt People of the Year honoree, she leads a company built around 'sense of place' - connecting global travelers with authentic local culture, artisan products, and sustainable practices. A fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, she has built a company where 50% of management are women, equal pay is non-negotiable, and a kiosk in San José has become a $225 million regional retail force.
Debby Soo is the CEO of OpenTable, the global restaurant reservation platform serving 65,000+ restaurant partners across 110+ countries. A Stanford and MIT Sloan alumna, she took the helm in August 2020 — at the precise moment the pandemic shuttered restaurants worldwide — and transformed the business by shifting its focus from diners to restaurants as the primary customer. Under her leadership, OpenTable has achieved double-digit revenue growth in 2025 and quadrupled its share price since she joined, while forging strategic partnerships with Visa, JPMorgan Chase, and OpenAI.
Karl Strovink is the CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee, the Oakland-born specialty roaster now owned by Nestlé. A Berkeley native with an MBA from MIT Sloan, he arrived in 2019 from a twelve-year run at Converse and has spent his tenure pushing Blue Bottle toward oat milk by default, instant espresso, zero-waste cafés, and aggressive expansion across Asia, all while protecting the brand's small-batch identity inside a thirty-billion-dollar coffee parent.
Matthew Stevens is the President and CEO of The Bay Club Company, a San Francisco-based sports and active lifestyle operator running resort-inspired campuses across the U.S. West Coast. Since 2008 he has scaled the business under three private equity owners (KSL, York, KKR), growing revenues, EBITDA and footprint by more than 250%, and steering the company past 135,000 members and 4,000 associates.
Patricia Smith is listed as a Group Chief Executive Officer associated with Smith, the Asbury Park hospitality collective behind Porta, Pascal & Sabine, Homesick, and Lovesick. Her public footprint is thin; her affiliation places her inside one of New Jersey's most recognizable restaurant groups, an operation that helped re-light Asbury Park's main streets after 2006.
Perry Patel is President and CEO of Radiate Hospitality (formerly BPR Properties), the Palo Alto-based hotel management and development company his father founded with a single motel in 1973. Under Perry's leadership, the firm now operates a portfolio of branded and lifestyle hotels across the West Coast - from the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto to the Hi-Lo Autograph Collection in Portland - with 500+ employees and a reputation for restoring historic properties.
Richard Westin is the co-founder of Agemark Senior Living, an Omaha-based operator of 28 communities across six states. The first American to work full-time for Club Med, he imported a resort-style hospitality ethos into a category usually defined by clinical efficiency. He led Agemark as CEO from 1987 until 2022 and now sits as a principal as his son Forrest steps into co-CEO.
Shayla Spencer is listed as a CEO connected to Da Kitchen Cafe, the cult Maui plate-lunch institution famous for oversized portions of local grinds, a Kahului base, and a comeback story that survived the 2020 closures.
Spain Salinas is the chief executive at Global Gourmet Catering, the San Francisco caterer that feeds Silicon Valley's biggest companies and largest events. He started as a sous chef in 2004 and worked his way up to running the company, which Apple, Google, Netflix and Salesforce hire when they need restaurant-quality food at stadium scale.
Revinate is a hospitality software company that helps hotels turn guest data into direct revenue. Its platform unifies fragmented hotel data into rich guest profiles, then powers CRM, email marketing, guest messaging, voice reservations and reputation tools used by more than 12,500 hotels worldwide.
Anyplace is a San Francisco-based housing platform that rents fully furnished, work-ready apartments for stays of 30 days or longer. Built for remote workers, relocating professionals, and corporate teams, every unit ships with a dedicated workspace, fast Wi-Fi, and a no-lease, move-in-ready setup in cities like New York, LA, San Francisco, Miami, and Tokyo.
Canary Technologies is the AI-powered Guest Management System trusted by 20,000+ hotels in 100+ countries. Founded in 2017 by Harman Singh Narula and SJ Sawhney, it sells AI Voice, AI Webchat, Mobile Check-In, Digital Contracts, Upsells, and Digital Tipping to brands like Marriott, Wyndham, Four Seasons, and Best Western.
FLYR is an AI-first travel and transportation technology company building a cloud-native Revenue Operating System for airlines and hospitality brands. Its deep-learning platform powers forecasting, dynamic pricing, offer and order management, and revenue optimization for customers like JetBlue, Air New Zealand, Avianca, Virgin Atlantic, and Wyndham.
Kindred is a members-only home-swapping network that turns primary residences into a credit-based travel platform. Founded in 2021 by Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina, the San Francisco company has grown to nearly 300,000 members across 150+ cities and raised $125M in combined Series B/C in February 2026 to scale a 'third way' alternative to hotels and short-term rentals.
Caroline Shin is the CEO and co-founder of Vacatia, a San Francisco-based marketplace reinventing the $35 billion timeshare industry. A MIT nuclear engineering graduate who cut her teeth building Hotwire from the ground up and running global CRM at Starwood Hotels, she launched Vacatia in 2013 to apply technology-first thinking to an industry that had barely touched the internet. Under her leadership, Vacatia has raised $46.8M across multiple rounds, acquired several resort management companies, grown to 750+ industry partners, and expanded to manage 4,750 resort units across eight states.
Garrett Dodge is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rockbot, the business media platform that powers music, TV, digital signage, and advertising for nearly 50,000 brick-and-mortar locations across North America. Founded in 2010, Rockbot has grown into a $9.2M revenue company serving major brands including Planet Fitness, Walmart, Shake Shack, and JetBlue, backed by Google Ventures, Universal Music Group, and others. Dodge holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an MBA from MIT Sloan, and previously helped build Caesars Entertainment's Innovation Team before channeling that experience into reimagining how physical spaces use media to engage customers.
Marcus Baney is a co-founder of Spec (specapp.com), a restaurant and bar inventory management and recipe costing platform, and a seasoned beverage consultant based in Dayton, Ohio. Drawing on 11 years of hospitality experience - seven years behind the bar at Nashville's most celebrated craft cocktail bars including The Patterson House, Pinewood Social, and LA Jackson, plus four years as a bar manager and beverage director - he bridges the gap between artisan craft and operational profit. His consulting work focuses on designing cocktail programs that hit 85% gross margins while being executable by real teams. Beyond hospitality, he's an avid photographer with over 2,600 images on Flickr, a guitar player, and a golfer.
Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ) is an AI-powered accounts payable automation platform that captures, codes, verifies, and pays invoices end-to-end. Founded in 2014 to fix the back-office mess inside restaurants, it now serves CFOs and AP teams across hospitality, healthcare, construction, retail, and grocery.
Rainbow is a San Francisco-based specialty managing general underwriter (MGU) building tailored small business insurance for industries that traditional carriers find hard to price - starting with restaurants and expanding into beauty and wellness. It pairs vertical-specific underwriting with an instant quote-to-bind agent portal and pay-as-you-go premiums tied to actual sales.
Rockbot is an Oakland-based B2B media platform that powers the music, TV, digital signage, and on-premise advertising playing inside more than 50,000 business locations - from gyms and bars to national retail chains. Founded in 2010 as a social jukebox app, it has grown into a multi-product media operating system for brick-and-mortar venues.
Vacatia is a hospitality company reinventing the timeshare experience. It runs a marketplace for buying, selling, and trading vacation ownership interests, and increasingly manages the resorts behind those interests - bringing modern booking technology and owner services to a category that hadn't seen much of either.