Matthew Hairsnape
Founder & Product Strategy
Matthew has spent more than 15 years working across travel, hospitality, technology and innovation.
His experience spans building and operating travel businesses, hospitality growth, travel technology, aviation, AI product development and innovation strategy.
He previously co-founded and ran travel businesses operating internationally, worked across tour operations and hospitality, and later developed technology ventures and AI-enabled operational systems.
At the University of Edinburgh's Futures Institute, Matthew worked on travel-tech innovation and venture frameworks as part of the University's wider innovation programme.
His work today focuses on the intersection between:
Travel × AI × Product × Operations
Kaize grew from a simple observation:
Travel businesses don't need more technology for the sake of technology. They need better ways to identify what matters, connect what already exists and build what genuinely improves the business.
