Joonas Ahola

Joonas Ahola started his entrepreneurial career at the age of 14 by taking part at JA company of the year program. Since then Joonas has built and grown multiple companies. After running his own event agency for 8 years, Joonas recognised a need in the hospitality industry. There was no automation or digitization of selling meeting rooms in hotels, even though 20-30% of the hotels’ revenue is generated by Meetings & Events. This resulted in low conversion rates for hotels to win the business as well long lead times for customers getting replies from the hotels. Even larger hotel chains didn’t have any technology in place to offer instant bookings of meeting rooms on their own website. To solve this problem, MeetingPackage was founded in 2014 with the vision of making meeting room bookings as easy as booking hotels. It took multiple years and pivots for MeetingPackage to find its niche and service offering that would truly help hotels and event spaces to increase sales while decreasing costs. During the last years Joonas has grown MeetingPackage internationally and raised more than 4m USD in funding. MeetingPackage has been ranked #1 by HotelTechReport and is trusted by global hotel chains such as Radisson Hotel Group, Nordic Choice Hotels and many others. MeetingPackage is used by more than 10 000 hotels and event spaces in over 120 countries. Joonas has been awarded with multiple awards and also made his way to one of the Forbes 30 under 30 list makers in Europe. To stay in shape physically Joonas plays competitive sports such as beach volley, football or any other activity that includes a ball. Joonas also acts as a speaker within the hospitality industry and an advisor for many young entrepreneurs.