Trevor Cornwell

Founder
Guesthouse

Trevor Cornwell is the founder of Guesthouse; and serves as President of Government Affairs at Merit, an Andreessen Horowitz portfolio company, leading strategy and corporate development for the company’s state and federal government work.
Trevor is also President & Co-founder of Forum280, Inc., a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and a registered 501(c)(3) which hosts Summit.Ahead, in partnership with the Reykjavik’s Mayor’s Office, on the future of work.
Previously he founded the business jet reservation network Skyjet which was acquired by Bombardier, Inc. in 2000. Cornwell also founded appbackr inc., an Intel Capital portfolio company, a winner of the PayPal X Developer Challenge, and an OnMobile 100 Company.
Cornwell has also served in positions of responsibility for political organizations, notably as Deputy Political Director for the U.S. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee under the Chairmanship of then-Senator John F. Kerry. He also served Secretary Colin Powell (Chairman, America’s Promise) and has held leadership positions with several U.S. federal political campaigns. He was previously on the Board of Maryland Public Television.

Detlef Schmidt

Managing Director
Viabledesign

Detlef Schmidt supports clients around the globe to draw the right conclusions from current marketplace dynamics and helps them to better cope with future complexity by shaping future-ready business models that are viable, innovative, and resilient.
Detlef has accumulated a wealth of experience in strategy, business development and marketing during the last 20 years. Working for Fortune 500 companies and mid-sized environments has made him aware of key success factors. His passion for sustainable growth, combined with the talent for visionary solutioning and connecting personalities makes him a rare expert.

Nooah Riijärvi

Nooah Riijärvi
CEO Nooon

Nooah Riijärvi is a second time founder focused on disrupting the Hospitality industry. With one exit under his belt he is now building nooon which is a marketing tool delivering directs sales for high end hotels.
On the investment front he works with his FO and works together with different Nordic Funds.

Vaughn Davis

CEO
Relevant Hospitality

Father, mentor, and community leader, Vaughn Davis has achieved success by applying extraordinary vision and meticulous attention to detail, with a passion for serving others.
Vaughn draws inspiration from his tenure in the fashion and entertainment industries as well as his experience as a student athlete with a Political Science degree from Hofstra University.
He is a proven leader in launching, growing and successfully operating experiential hospitality ventures in competitive markets including New York and Los Angeles.

Daniel Sztutwojner

Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer
Beekeeper

Daniel is co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Beekeeper. Among his responsibilities is the management and development of the global customer portfolio. Prior to joining Beekeeper, Daniel worked in several projects in Innovation and Technology and also co-founded a web startup that took him around the world, mainly to Israel and the US. Daniel holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics from ETH Zurich.

Milica Krstic

CEO & Founder
Safe Space

Milica Krstic, a Serbian psychologist, earned Forbes 30 Under 30 for ‘Safe Space,’ an online platform aiding 20.000 with depression and anxiety, and founded ‘Safe Contact’ for corporate mental health.

Marco Corallo

COO and Co-Founder
Xenios Academy

Marco’s corporate background, spanning roles from Restaurant to F&B manager, plays a crucial role in fine-tuning our app to meet hospitality industry needs.

Zeljana Babic

CEO and Co-Founder
Xenios Academy

Zeljana, with multiple degrees in neuroscience and psychology, leads our brain-powered revolution in hospitality education.

Pascal Wiscour-Conter

Pascalogy
The Craft of Connecting: Connecting People. Connecting Ideas. Connecting Values.

Pascal is an entrepreneur from Luxembourg who spent 20 years abroad, notably in the USA, to then rediscover his home country with the eyes of an “expat”.
He started his professional journey in finance, only to shift his focus towards entrepreneurship with the launch and promotion of the Luxembourg maritime registry for megayachts, which lead him to Monaco. To help manage these complex, intense floating ***** hotels he later moved to California and developed a “tangible asset management” platform in the cloud. That’s when he fell into the world of startups and discovered storytelling and evangelism. He notably helped develop and launch a fast casual restaurant chain in Los Angeles and opened the initial pilot location.
He went on to New York to set up a writers room within the entertainment industry, as well as some real estate activities. As such he worked with several restaurants and notably guided Café Angelina Paris when they opened their first US location, also project managing their first 120-seat restaurant in Manhattan.
In 2020 he returned to Luxembourg where he is also faculty and head of strategic development of an executive business school, HEC Liège Luxembourg.

Rolf Stahlhofen

Host, Singer and Speaker

Raised in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Algeria, Stahlhofen made a name for himself in the German music scene with the band ” Die Söhne Mannheims”.

Even before „Water Is Right“ was founded in 2011, Stahlhofen campaigned for the human right to water. In 2002 he organized a benefit concert for the flood victims in East Germany.

For his commitment, Rolf Stahlhofen was appointed “Messenger of Truth on Water” in 2007 as part of the United Nations Program for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT). To date, WIR has implemented 12 projects in 10 countries around the world: For millions of people, this means access to clean and affordable drinking water.

Mark (‘Maz’) Zawacki

Co-Founder & Managing Director Techne Infiniti Ventures

Maz is an early-stage investor, startup coach, strategist, advisor, keynote speaker, contrarian, provocateur and easily distracted…

He is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Techne Infiniti Ventures (‘Techne’), an early-stage Silicon Valley venture fund focused exclusively on pre-seed/seed/A investments in hospitality technology (accommodation, travel/mobility, F&B, entertainment & recreation + adjacencies) Techne operates ‘three pillars’: a venture studio, an accelerator and a direct investment fund.

Techne invests globally, and Maz’s primary geographical focus is Europe & MENA. Maz resides in the Netherlands (and in airline cabins).

Fabienne Stanitz

Founder/CEO
FabstWines

10+ years experience within the hospitality & luxury industry, women leadership award winner, scaled an international coffeeshop franchise across the Middle East, Glion Alumni.

Yves Luethi

CIO
Julen Group

With over a decade of real estate and startup building and investing experience across Europe, Asia and Americas, currently involved in the Ritz-Carlton Zermatt.

Kenneth Hobkirk

VP, Strategy & Corp Dev.
Marex

Experienced private equity investment manager and corporate development executive with vast knowledge in luxury and hospitality.