Entrepreneurship

portrait of, podcast guest on smack, Jan Valentin

JAN VALENTIN

jan valentin Founder & General Partner ennea capital partners Jan Valentin, Founder and General Partner at ennea capital partners, joined us for another SMACK story. Starting off as a travel journalist, he led us through the stages of his career, including travel24.com and KAYAK Europe, to the venture capital and M&A space. Giving us a …

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portrait of, podcast guest on smack, Ariel Schiff

ARIEL SCHIFF

Ariel SchiFf CEO & Founder AMANO Group Ariel Schiff, the mastermind behind the Amano Hotel Group joined us on SMACK for episode 12 of the podcast and told us all about his roots, his passion for F&B and how his family members supply the names for his hotels and their outlets. Ariel rarely does interviews …

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portrait of, podcast guest on smack, Olivier Bracard

OLIVIER BRACARD

olivier bracard CEO & Co-Founder Hosco Olivier Bracard, CEO & Co-founder of Hosco, a true entrepreneur joined us for this podcast episode. Olivier gave us an insight on his career path into hospitality from his early starts, over EHL, his first internship, his time at JLL Hotels & Hospitality and finally, how he became an …

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portrait of, podcast guest on smack, Mathieu Jaton

MATHIEU JATON

mathieu jaton CEO Montreux Jazz Festival Mathieu Jaton, CEO of Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland stopped by, just before Christmas. Having graduated from the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), Mathieu gives us an insight on what hospitality has taught him and how his background affects his day to day job. He told us about how …

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portrait of, podcast guest on smack, Thomas Edelkamp

THOMAS EDELKAMP

Thomas Edelkamp Chairman Romantik Hotels & Restaurants AG The second episode of season 3 took us to the German Hotel Convention (Deutscher Hotelkongress 2021), hosted by the dfv Mediengruppe and ahgz. Thomas Edelkamp, Chairman of the Board at Romantik Hotels & Restaurants AG joined us during the event and told us about his career starting …

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portrait of podcast guest on smack hospitality, michael levie

MICHAEL LEVIE

Michael Levie COO & Founder citizenM Welcome to season 3 of the SMACK Hospitality Podcast! To start the season in style, our season opener took place in Amsterdam and we spoke to Michael Levie of citizenM. Michael told us about the journey and hierarchy structure of citizenM and why it is totally different to other …

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portrait of richard castle as podcast guest on smack hospitality

MICHAEL ROS

MICHAEL ROS Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Bidroom Michael Ros joined us in season 2, we had the chance to sit down with the CEO & Co-founder of Bidroom, an OTC brand with the aim to enable fair travel, both for hotels and travelers. He shared his personal story and filled us in on how …

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portrait of richard castle as podcast guest on smack hospitality

RICHARD CASTLE

RICHARD CASTLE President & Chief Operations Officer Cloudbeds Richard Castle, Co-Founder and COO of Cloudbeds takes this episode all the way to the West Coast of the United States. He joined us to tell his and Adam Harris’ story of how the story behind Cloudbeds unfolded. From two guys, who had nothing to do with …

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portrait of joshua gan as a guest on the smack hospitality podcast

JOSHUA GAN

JOSHUA GAN Regional Director of Asia & Pacific EHL Group Joshua Gan, Regional Director Asia/Pacific of the EHL Group, came to visit us on the show and told us about his journey from being a working student at the Ecole hotelière de Lausanne to becoming director of the Asia/Pacific Region and pushing forward the expansion …

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portrait of podcast guest on smack hospitality, Wilko Weber

WILHELM (WILKO) WEBER

Wilhelm (Wilko) Weber VP Global & Digital Strategy Kempinski Wilhelm (Wilko) Weber, Vice President Global Revenue and Digital Strategy at Kempinksi came to visit us on the show – for a second time. Find out what went wrong in the first recording and discover what Kempinski has learned from the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of …

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