Rami Zeidan

Rami is the founder of Autumn and previously founded Life House, which focused on streamlining hotel operations through software and process innovation. He built Life House into both a hotel operator and a standalone software business serving more than 150 hotels, and launched a separate revenue management product that later became DIAMO. Before founding Life House, he worked in private equity, beginning in distressed investing at Deutsche Bank before focusing on hotel investing, acquisitions, and asset management at firms including The Sydell Group, Starwood Capital Group, and TPG Global. He studied at Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.

His view: hotels are complex e-commerce businesses with operational intensity, yet are often run by people acting like glorified Airbnb hosts. He believes technology can empower hoteliers to operate these sophisticated businesses effectively and keep pace with the times.