About — Talent Disruption

The company

Who we are

Talent Disruption is a hospitality intelligence company whose purpose is to give the industry the intelligence layer it has never had. We are building hospitality's first verified professional network and knowledge platform — the place where creators, practitioners, operators and owners establish a credible professional identity, publish what they know, and are paid for it — and the artificial intelligence trained on the knowledge it produces.

We are operators and technologists. First-generation immigrants who began in front-line service roles and rose to build category-leading hospitality brands, our team brings decades of C-suite experience across hospitality, technology and entertainment — having managed luxury and lifestyle hotels across the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and having built, financed and exited technology businesses in this industry. We did not find this problem in a market map; we ran the businesses where it shows up, wrote the book about it, and built the relationships that make the network possible.

Our approach is simple: assemble the industry's practitioners into a single verified network, give them a reason to write down what they know, and turn the resulting body of knowledge into intelligence that serves the whole industry rather than any single owner — transforming how it finds, develops and retains its people.

The team

Who is building it

Operators who have run hospitality P&Ls, and the technologists who have shipped AI into this industry.

Alexander Mirza

Founder & Chief Executive

Twenty-five years across management consulting and the hospitality C-suite. Head of Strategy at Starwood, SVP of Corporate Development and Hotel Operations at Hilton, and SVP of Hospitality at Caesars Entertainment. At Hilton he oversaw a $2 billion food and beverage business with more than 20,000 employees, and launched the Waldorf Astoria brand. He went on to found Cachet Hotels in China — the first foreigner to build and scale a hotel brand in that market — and later founded and exited a venture-backed AI talent marketplace in hospitality. Author of Talent Disruption and Reimagining Global Hospitality. MBA, Harvard Business School, where he received the McArthur Fellowship; master's and bachelor's degrees from Queen's University, where he was an Aga Khan Foundation Scholar.

Sahar Cain

Chief Technology Officer

Twelve years in software development and data science, with a master's in computer science specialising in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Her research on physics-guided neural networks for drug discovery has been published in IEEE and MDPI and secured funding from the National Institutes of Health. Before joining the company she led business intelligence at Amway in Asia, managing teams of developers, data scientists and engineers deploying analytics across the group's global entities. Her experience spans retail, healthcare and hospitality.

Martin Key

Chief Financial Officer

Former Chief Financial Officer of Bel Air Resorts Group, an integrated real estate, development and hospitality company, and of Coffee Commune in Shanghai. He was CFO of Acorn International, an NYSE-listed e-commerce company, and co-founded Cachet Hotels as CFO alongside Alexander Mirza. Earlier he was Executive Director at ARC China, a Shanghai private-equity firm, and began his career as an investment banker in debt capital markets at J.P. Morgan Securities in New York. MBA, UCLA Anderson; MS Finance, Boston College; BS Accounting, University of South Carolina.

We are raising capital.

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