Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (NYSE | TSX: LSPD) today announced the
launch of its Luminaries thought leadership series. The first
episode, shot in Miami, features Life House hotels’ Corporate Head
of Food and Beverage, Peter Litvinenko. Powering the world’s best
businesses, Lightspeed is the unified POS and payments platform for
ambitious entrepreneurs to accelerate growth, provide the best
customer experiences and become a go-to destination in their space.
Illuminating conversations with the industry’s
bestLightspeed Luminaries is a video thought leadership
series that celebrates the best of the best in business, examining
what sets the individuals behind great brands apart from the pack.
Covering hospitality, retail and golf, each episode features a
visionary Lightspeed customer who’s making waves in their industry,
with the aim of sharing their insights and experience with other
business owners.
Episode 1: Connecting brand and operations with Life
House’s Peter LitvinenkoIn episode one of Luminaries, we
travel to Little Havana in Miami, Florida to visit Lightspeed
customer Life House, which specializes in contextually designed
boutique hotels across the United States. Shot throughout their
Little Havana location in Miami, Florida, the premier story sees
Peter Litvinenko, Head of Food and Beverage, explaining the
importance of a symbiotic relationship between operations and
marketing.
“Life House’s mission is to make travel accessible to a larger
group of people,” notes Litvinenko. “Hotels can be expensive; they
tend not to be approachable. People are drawn to Airbnbs or
boutique hotels because they are a reflection of the neighborhood’s
character. We target this style of property and work with them,
adding a level of sophistication with technology. That’s our secret
sauce.”
Founded by Rami Zeidan in 2017, Life House takes a personal
approach to travel. Each location celebrates the neighbourhood it
resides in through the smallest of details. From hiring locally to
curating a scent for each location, Life House weaves its story
throughout each of its spaces—giving guests a home away from home
that makes a lasting impression.
“What Life House has achieved is a model for modern brands,”
notes Lightspeed CEO JP Chauvet. “They’re making travel accessible,
creating spaces that are infused with local charm, and that don’t
compromise on providing an elevated experience. Peter’s experience
and attention to detail is an important part of that. Lightspeed is
proud to be part of their strategy, supporting their impressive
growth across the United States.”
“We were looking for a
POS partner that could grow with us,” explains Litvinenko. “We
looked hard at who had the ability to take on different
integrations, work with different partners in our ecosystem and
also open up the API to work with our PMS software. What sticks out
for me is just how well we've grown together with Lightspeed.”
Lightspeed sets the spark Celebrating the
insights and hard-earned experience of industry titans, Luminaries
is a series that speaks its name—delivering inspiration, influence
and insights. A resource to other industry leaders, these videos
feature the best in the business exploring topics and themes
relevant to the challenges facing business owners today. Look out
for more from Lightspeed’s Luminaries series coming in 2024.
Episode one is now available on YouTube. About Life
House
Life House is a New York & Los Angeles-based, hotel brand,
management, and software company. The company is focused on helping
small and medium independent hotels reach their potential and
operate more reliably through thoughtful branding and technology
driven operations, which ultimately results in a better guest
experience and hotels that are easier to own and operate. The brand
has been awarded several titles in the last year: Conde Nast
Traveler’s 2023 HOT List and Travel + Leisure’s 2023 IT List for
both Life House, Berkshires and South of Fifth as well as Conde
Nast Traveler’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards and Architectural
Digest’s 2021 AD Design Hotel for Life House Nantucket amongst
others. Life House was also named Most Innovative Company in Travel
in 2022 by Fast Company.
For more information on Life House, please visit our website:
lifehousehotels.com
About Lightspeed
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global
economy, Lightspeed’s one-stop commerce platform helps merchants
innovate to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer
experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies
online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to
new locations, global payments, financial solutions and connection
to supplier networks.
Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed
on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (NYSE:
LSPD) (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe and Asia
Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality and golf businesses
in over 100 countries.
For more information, see www.lightspeedhq.com.
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NKPR - victoriab@nkpr.net; USA: Jennifer Fugel, Newsmaker Group-
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Lightspeed Investor Relations -
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