Three partners who met as students at the Swiss Hotel Association’s International College of Hotel Management. A hotel developer, a hospitality educator and a software engineer, and an Australian software company that runs the product in real venues every day before selling it to yours.
Who we are.
James Cowperthwaite
Co-founder · technology
Builds the platform. Trained in hotel management, then two decades writing software for businesses. Leads internal IT and security at meldCX, the Melbourne vision-AI company, while building HotelStack.ai. Master of Cyber Security from Charles Sturt University, 2024, awarded the Postgraduate University Medal and the Executive Dean’s Award; advises on AI and cyber risk through Dark Horse Governance. Every line of HotelStack.ai’s trust posture is his to defend.
Founder of Title Hospitality, which has served hotel owners across Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1997: first as a human-capital platform for international hotels, then as the development, asset-management and investment model it is today for hotel real-estate capital partners. The asset manager’s lens on the product, from covenants to the owner’s monthly read, is his.
Twenty-five years across technology, training and partnerships. Co-founded Hostec International, one of Asia Pacific’s largest private hospitality training providers, running a hundred-person team across Australia, Asia and the Middle East. Since then a strategic director of Coder Academy, an adviser on digital-skills programmes with UNESCO and the ITU, and seven years in strategic partnerships at Mastt. Swiss Hotel Association diploma and a computer-science degree.
HotelStack.ai runs in real venues every day, and five venue websites are moving onto Marquee. Every rough edge gets found by us before it can be found by you — and when we say a feature is “in design”, it’s because we won’t sell what we haven’t run.
