Meet the team Podcast Host Florian Montag

Florian Montag

Host at SMACK from the first hour and our guy for everything technology- or startup-related. As ex-Hotelhero, a marketplace comparing and recommending hospitality tech, he knows how to stack tech from all angles and has a great entrepreneurial sense.

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Meet the team Podcast Host Fritz Dickamp

Fritz Dickamp

Meet Frederic Dickamp (yeah, you read correctly!), aka Fritz, our unstoppable ginger marketing mastermind and talkaholic. He can do things with words other people can’t even do with their hands.

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Patrizia Zueck

Let’s kick it off with the one and only Patrizia, aka Pat, funny, informed & always neutral – she is Swiss after all – and besides that, the sweetest voice in the #podcast game. 🇨🇭

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Djony Jaegers for SMack's Humans of Hospitality

Djony Jaegers

Hello, my name is Djony Jaegers and I am a member of the ROOM FOR CHANGE program by entrepreneurs’ collective The Present Movement. I have been working there as a Relations Manager for a year now. ROOM FOR CHANGE is a social responsibility program for hotels in which we use the power of the hospitality world to make a positive impact in the lives of people who are temporarily unhoused. This group is often also called “economically homeless people”. These are people like you and me, without any addictions or psychiatric indications, but without housing. Sometimes life just goes wrong – you lost your job, or you get a divorce and have to move out of your house.

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Alexi Khajavi Questex - Podcast guest on SMACK

ALEXI KHAJAVI

ALEXI KHAJAVI President Hospitality, Travel & Wellness – Questex Connecting hotel real estate owners with brands, trends and tech Let’s say 2023 was not quite the year of deal-making within the industry.  Then what does the future have in stock for hospitality and real estate? Alexi Khajavi President Hospitality, Travel and Wellness at Questex set

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ATUL CHOPRA

Atul Chopra Founder & CEO – FreshOn Table Minimum emissions, maximum nutrition – harvest on demand  Have you ever wondered what grows in the desert?   We have. So we sent Phil to talk to someone who knows – Atul Chopra, Founder and CEO of FreshOn Table, who supplies restaurants and hotels in UAE with fresh

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Rocco Forte Family- Preview Podcast guest

SIR ROCCO & LYDIA FORTE

Sir Rocco &Lydia Forte Chairman & Group Director F&B – Rocco Forte Hotels This is real, luxurious, family business! We had not only one but two guests on the show! Sir Rocco Forte, Chairman and Lydia Forte, Group Director of F&B at Rocco Forte Hotels brought some great topics and giggles to this episode with Fritz, recorded

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