Anwar Musa is the Vice President of Supplier Relations at Hotel Engine. As an award-winning revenue management professional, he brings over 15 years of experience working in several high-profile roles for large hotels and hotel management companies.

Prior to joining Hotel Engine, Anwar was the Corporate Director of Revenue Management at Stout Street Hospitality (formerly Magnolia Hotels Management), Senior Revenue Manager at Choice Hotels International, and Corporate Director of Revenue Management | Premier & Lifestyle Division and Director of Profit Contributions at Sage Hospitality. 

He currently serves as a board member for Children of Uganda, where he utilizes his experience in budgeting, yield management, negotiations, marketing, profit analysis, and building high-performing teams to help the organization reach its goals of empowering and educating women and youth in Uganda. 

Fun Fact: Anwar is an artisan baker and make loaves of bread weekly.

John Siladie is Hotel Engine’s VP of Engineering. He leads their team of engineers, building the software that makes all of the magic happen. He is responsible for all of the company’s main product & software applications — including building the features, ensuring uptime, reliability, scalability, and compliance, as well as advancing their infrastructure. 

John brings over 20 years of professional software experience working in large, medium, and small businesses. He founded multiple startups including 60mo — a tool for forecasting and analyzing businesses’ finance, HR and shareholder data — and ExpenseBot, an automated expense management system. Prior to Hotel Engine, John served as the Senior Software Engineer at Travelers Haven and the technical co-founder of SmartCapital. 

Fun Fact: In college, John played basketball against LeBron James and his middle school friends in Akron, OH.

Florent Silve is Hotel Engine’s Vice President of Data. He leads the company’s data engineering, data science and analytics teams responsible for the data infrastructure and for delivering high-quality analytics and data services across the company. An accomplished data scientist and machine learning engineer, he has successfully built and scaled numerous data functions at high growth companies.

Prior to joining Hotel Engine, Florent was leading the data science and machine learning team at Sonder, a tech-driven hospitality company based in San Francisco. He built the team from the ground up and worked on the development of the company’s proprietary models and algorithms for real-estate valuation and dynamic pricing. Prior to that, Florent was a staff scientist and head of solutions engineering at Premise Data where he worked on building data and analytics products leveraging the company’s ground truth crowdsourcing platform for applications in finance, international development, and health. Trained as both an engineer and economist, Florent spent his early career as an economist in finance and economics consulting and in the Office of the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.

Florent is originally from France and holds a master’s degree in economics from the École Polytechnique and Sciences Po Paris, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a master’s degree in physics and engineering from ESPCI ParisTech/PSL University.

Fun Fact: Florent grew up in a remote town in the middle of the French Alps but ended up living and working across 4 continents!

As Hotel Engine’s Vice President of Sales, Christine is responsible for all net new business. A purpose-driven leader with a proven track record of delivery, Christine comes to Hotel Engine with prior background successfully leading large teams at Iron Mountain and Johnson Controls. Christine attributes her success to being able to bring the best out in others, and aims to empower and support her team in making big decisions and taking bold action. Outside of work, Christine enjoys spending time with her family and dog, Chichi (who has a big personality and an even bigger sweater collection), cooking, staying active, reading and traveling. A resident of the Philadelphia area, she’s a huge Philly sports fan.

Fun Fact: Christine started taking standup comedy classes to try something new during the pandemic.

Favorite Travel Destination: The Amalfi Coast.