Portier Technologies

Portier provides mobile guest engagement tools for the luxury hospitality sector; enabling clients to improve revenue, guest satisfaction and reduce opex.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Hong Kong
  • Currency USD
  • Founded November 2016
  • Employees 30
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website goportier.com

Company Summary

Portier provides mobile guest solutions for the global hotel market. The Portier service offering is built around a custom smartphone placed in guest rooms providing guests with unlimited data connectivity, a simple interface to engage with hotel Concierge and the ability to instantly book hotel services.
With the industry's highest usage rate and a data-driven marketing platform, Portier is the only guest amenity that drives bottom-line growth.

Team

  • Co-Founder

    - Former Head of Hospitality at Hong Kong- based Tink Labs - led the company from 5k to 150k units deployed in under 18 months

    - Former Head of Sales & Marketing at London-based Managed IT Services startup Netforte (sold for $25M)

    - Financed studies through an import-export fashion business, generating annual net profits of $70,000 (from 5 days of work per week)

  • Co-Founder

    - Previously served as Managing Director, Dow Jones Asia & Publisher The Wall Street Journal Asia

    - Managed 700 employees across APAC

    - Former Marketing Director at PC Magazine Group

    - Held senior product & sales positions in NYC, London and Hong Kong

  • - 5x Serial Entrepreneur (Portier Technologies, iOS Bootcamp, CodeTribe, CodeMind and Startit Centar)

    - Ivan has been serving as Portier's CTO since our company's inception.
    In addition to managing tech strategy and staff, his active involvement in EE's start-up community and technical faculties, ensures that Portier has terrific access to technical talent.

  • Head of Development

    - Senior Database and Software Architect

    - SCRUM Master with 10+ years of programming experience in Java (Spring & Spring Boot)

  • Head of Partnerships

    - Former Vice Chairman of GSMA, the worldwide association for mobile telcos

    - Former senior mgmt of Hutchison Telecommunications

    - 25 years plus of telco experience, product, P&L and partnership management

  • Country Director - China

    - Joern relocated from Germany to China more than a decade ago as part of an expansive World Bank program focused on China's national banking and loan sectors.

    - Joined Bank of Taizhou, where Joern redeveloped the bank's small business lending practices, contributing to the bank's highly lauded loan origination process and overall business profitability.

    - Presently serves as an SOSV mentor, which is where Joern was introduced to Portier.

  • Olivier is an Award-winning Commercial, Operations and General Management Senior Executive. As a savvy and motivated leader, he is driven by results and high performance.

    His track record is proven and recognized by industry peers. It is built on a robust strategic planning and detailed hands-on execution expertise required to manage $110M Asia P&L, and solid collaborative leadership skills to motivate and grow a +200 cross-functional team.

Advisors

  • William Bao Bean
    Unconfirmed
    Juliana Liu
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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