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Lola is a new kind of travel company that provides on-demand, personal travel service through a smartphone app.
Lola is the new business travel initiative from Paul English, co-founder of KAYAK. Lola makes every facet of business travel easier. For the travel manager, life becomes simpler with employee friendly travel policies, fun travel tracking tools, and transparent spend reporting. For the traveler, a modern app and desktop experience that allows easy flight and hotel booking, team destination sharing, loyalty points from the actual hotels and airlines, and 24/7 agent support. Get ready to experience a travel tool that works for employers AND employees.
Mike Volpe
CEO
Mike Volpe is the CEO at Lola.com, where he is responsible for definition and execution of the company’s strategy including customer service, marketing, sales, and operations. Previously he was CMO at Cybereason, a cybersecurity SaaS company, where he helped the company increase pipeline by 650% in a single year, and grow revenue by 5 times during his tenure. Mike was also part of the founding team at HubSpot, where he spent 8 years growing the company from 5 people to over 1,000 employees, $175m in revenue, and a successful IPO. Mike is active in the entrepreneurial community as a member of the board of directors of Validity, and as an advisor or investor in more than 30 startups.
Paul English
CTO & Co-Founder
Paul English is the CTO and Cofounder of Lola.com, where he oversees product strategy, definition, design, and development, working closely with customers to make sure that Lola’s newest features are well received by users, and that they become “must haves” not “nice to have.” He also makes sure Lola’s products are innovative, fast, and beautiful with the objective of completely shattering the soul-sucking experience today’s business travelers must endure when planning travel.
Paul was previously the CTO and Cofounder of Kayak (took public then sold to Priceline), and he also co-founded GetHuman (ongoing), Boston Light (sold to Intuit), and Intermute (sold to Trend Micro). Separately, Paul is an investor in dozens of startups, and he sits on six nonprofit boards. You can read more about Paul at PaulEnglish.com.
