TAO TAO Co-Founder & COO GetYourGuide We’re back with Season 5 and here wo go! Welcome Tao Tao, co-founder and COO of GetYourGuide, the revolutionary of travel experiences and one of the best people to hang out with if you need top travel advice in any city on this planet. For the opening of SMACK’s fifth …
DR. JOSEF VOLLMAYR Co-Founder & Managing Director Limehome In this episode, we had the chance to speak to the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Limehome, Dr. Josef Vollmayr. We were introduced to the rise of alternative accommodations and the success of sharing economies. Florian and Josef spoke about the companies USP of having no manual …
Naomi Mackenzie Founder & General Partner KITRO Naomi MacKenzie, Co-founder of KITRO joined us on the show and told us how she and Anastasia had the idea to start KITRO, when they were still at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, seeing how much food was wasted in every day’s operations. Naomi also told us how …
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 …
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 …
Gilda Perez-Alvarado Global CEO JLL Hotels & Hospitality For the second episode of 2022 we were lucky to catch Gilda Perez-Alvarado for a chat. She talked to us about her time at Cornell University, her love for travel and cultures and how she found her passion for real estate finance in combination with hospitality. Leading …
Charlie MacGregor CEO & Founder The Student Hotel Charlie MacGregor, CEO and founder of The Social Hub joined us in season 3 for a quick chat before the end of the year and he told us about how he got into the industry and the origins of his very unique hotel concept with TSH. As …
Jan Starcke Travel Industry Lead Meta (formerly Facebook) Jan Starcke, Travel Industry Lead at Meta, formerly Facebook, met with us and talked to us about his story. He allowed us some interesting glimpses behind the scenes of his work and told us, what it was like to join Facebook back in 2013, being part of …
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 …
BORIS RADKE Director Corporate Affairs & Workplace Experience Omio Boris Radke, Ex-Zalando, Ex-ProSieben Sat. 1 Media and currently Director Corporate Affairs and Workplace Experience at one-stop-shop travel booking platform Omio, came to visit us on the show and told us all about his take on the travel industry and why he thinks it is one …
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+49 (0) 30 767373 160
stories@smack.media
