Your Restaurant's Digital Front Door

Allison Page is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at SevenRooms, a reservation, seating, and guest management platform that empowers hospitality operators to create meaningful, direct relationships with guests and deliver exceptional guest experiences. Founded in New York in 2011, SevenRooms is venture-backed by Amazon’s Alexa Fund and Comcast Ventures, and it has been named a top company to watch by publications including Business Insider and Skift.

Since its inception, Ms. Page has led product strategy, vision, and user experience design for SevenRooms, transforming the daily operations of properties in over 100 cities globally. The company’s clients range from neighborhood restaurants to international, multi-concept hospitality groups including Jumeirah Hotels, TopGolf, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and TAO Group. Prior to founding SevenRooms, Ms. Page started her career in investment banking at Credit Suisse. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and was named one of six “Rising Stars” in the hotel industry by Hotel Business.

Amy Woolen is a restaurant marketing veteran with 20 years of experience with CDR and QSR brands. She is currently Vice President of Menu and Marketing at Red Robin, leading and maximizing the capabilities of the Marketing, Category, Culinary, R&D, and QA teams.

Before joining Red Robin, Ms. Woolen served as Regional Marketing Director for Sonic Drive-In leading regional and local marketing efforts for company and franchise stores in the Southwest. She previously held account leadership roles at advertising agencies supporting local co-op marketing initiatives, working directly with franchisees and company operators for Subway and McDonald’s.

Ms. Woolen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in advertising from Texas Tech University. She and her husband Randy enjoy cheering on their three children in competitive sports, and hiking and fishing in the summer.

Asís Martínez-Jerez joined the Cornell School of Hotel Administration (SHA) in July 2020, after spending seven years at the University of Notre Dame and almost 20 years at Harvard Business School. In his research and consulting activities, Professor Martínez-Jerez focuses on the design of customer-centric organizations for performance. At the SHA, he teaches courses on strategy implementation, performance measurement, and managerial accounting. 

A native of Alicante, Spain, Professor Martínez-Jerez earned his undergraduate degrees in Law and Business Administration at ICADE-Madrid, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. His professional experience includes working for La Suisse Assurances in Lausanne, Switzerland and consulting for McKinsey & Co. in Europe and Latin America. 

Professor Martínez-Jerez currently serves on the Board of Directors of E.D. Bullard and consults with firms throughout Europe and the Americas. He received the HBS-MBA Class Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005; the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovation in Management Accounting Education in 2010; the top teaching awards at the Mendoza College of Business in 2016, 2017, and 2020; and the Notable Contribution Award to the Management Accounting Literature in 2019. Professor Martínez-Jerez enjoys the company of his lovely wife María José and often escapes to New York and San Francisco to visit his daughters, Victoria and Aitana.

Jillian Ressler is currently the VP of Brand at Tartine Bakery. Since joining just under three years ago, Tartine has grown to seven locations in California and six locations abroad in Seoul, Korea. She oversees all brand marketing across the retail locations, including all digital as well as press and communications. Before joining Tartine, Ms. Ressler founded a wellness consumer products company named Spruce & Co while at Harvard Business School. Originally from Los Angeles and now based in NYC, she has a B.A. from Brown University.