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New Craftable CEO David Cantu [Photo: Craftable]
Hospitality Tech Platform Craftable Taps Former Black Box Intelligence Chief as New CEO
by Lance Murray | Aug 21, 2025
David Cantu joins Dallas-based Craftable to lead its next phase of growth. Craftable co-founder Samuel Zats will shift roles to focus on AI, product innovation, and long-term strategy as the company prepares a brand refresh.
by Lance Murray |
May 17, 2024
Experience Pinnacle Live said that Falcon will combine with its seasoned team, which provides a single source of creative, technical, and logistic solutions for high-profile live events, including conferences, business meetings, brand activations, festivals, sporting, and special events.
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by Lance Murray |
May 16, 2024
The companies said they're focused on "EV-enabling" real estate where drivers most need charging stations—multifamily complexes, hotels, and healthcare-related facilities, all of which "have been critically underserved to date."
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by Lance Murray |
May 10, 2024
Eric B. Jacobs joins Aimbridge after nearly 20 years at Marriott International. He succeeds Allison Reid, who served as Aimbridge's chief global growth officer from July 2022 to May 2024.
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Aly El-Bassuni, divisional president, Owner Relations, will lead the AImbridge's new owner relations team.
Plano’s Aimbridge Hospitality Creates 2 Operating Divisions, Announces Leadership
by Lance Murray | Feb 9, 2024
Aly El-Bassuni, divisional president of owner relations, will lead the new dedicated owner relations team for AImbridge, which is the world's largest third-party hotel operator.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 9, 2024
Based in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood, NoiseAware went beyond its mission to detect noise-blasting guests by offering smoking detection technology. Now rebranded as Rest, it aims to help hotels and short-term rentals nip cigarette and marijuana smokers and vapers in the bud.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 20, 2023
WDG-Designed Modera St. Paul will offer 333 apartments and nearly 4,000 square feet of retail space. Amenities will include a karaoke room, podcast studio, an arcade, a rooftop deck and sky lounge, access to work-from-home spaces, private EV charging stations, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 9, 2020
Chris Gomes, the firm's senior managing director of investments, recently helped investors close nearly a half-dozen hotel transactions, enabling buyers to capitalize on an impending SBA incentive deadline. It's been our "most exciting two weeks since April," he says.
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Clockwise from upper left: Mauricio Leyva, Nancy Hong, Joel Pustmueller, Jeff Eckert, Dennis Moore, Sean McClellan, T.D. Briggs, and Julie Curtis.
DI People: Luminosity, Caruth Institute, RKD Group Make Leadership Moves
by Lance Murray | Mar 17, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves by North Texas companies and organizations, you'll also find news from Keurig Dr Pepper, JLL, Work Shield, Balekian Hayes, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 28, 2019
Aimed at business and vacation travelers, aparthotels combine the amenities of a boutique hotel and an upscale apartment building. And with a new startup on the scene, you can now rent one in Dallas and Fort Worth.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 19, 2019
In 2017, Zinwave moved its leadership, operations, and finance teams to Dallas. The chief technology officer says the maker of in-building cellular and public-safety installations for businesses used its move to develop its Network Operations Center, which has a global impact.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 4, 2019
New hotel projects are cropping up across Dallas-Fort Worth, bringing with them innovative concepts that will keep the North Texas hospitality sector moving forward.
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3 Things: SMU Research into Movement and Math
by Lance Murray | Jul 20, 2016
Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas have found that movement can help students in understanding and retaining complex math concepts.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Mar 11, 2016
Plano-based technology startup OpenKey is revolutionizing the hospitality industry. And it’s doing so at a rapid pace.
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![Erica Kosemund, Chief Brand Officer, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Gillian Breidenbach, Chief Partnership Officer, North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; Chief Gary Batton, Chief of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Monica Paul, Executive Director of Dallas Sports Commission and President of North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; John Hobbs, Senior Executive Officer of Communications, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; and Heidi Grant, Senior Executive Officer of Commerce Administration, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, celebrate Choctaw Casinos & Resorts becoming an Official Dallas World Cup 2026 Host City Supporter. [Photo: North Texas FWC Organizing Committee/Choctaw Casinos & Resorts]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FIFA-Choctaw-dec-2025.jpg)
