With a decade-and-a-half of work in various aspects of the hospitality industry, Keri Knowles has established a strong reputation for having a singular vision and skill-set in designing and implementing unique spaces and opportunities for people to gather and interact. Keri is known for managing complex situations and dynamics to transform and optimize venues and settings that focus on facilitating meaningful and rich human connection.

 

She is passionate about creating environments that inspire people to gather and interact, heightening social experiences. She views function, design, dining, entertainment, aesthetics, and technology as means to service this mission rather than ends in themselves.  

She fully embraces her role as an "experience designer" and thrives on orchestrating these elements into a fully integrated hospitality mindset.

 

Keri has also been a catalyst for change in the industry, bridging the gaps between the habits and entrenched systems of well-established hospitality institutions and the dynamism necessary to ensure their continued growth and appeal. She has established herself as an intermediary between the disparate demands of stakeholders, taking into account and balancing the pragmatic requirements of the engineers, management of vendors and contractors, zoning and historical integrity concerns of planning boards, aesthetic-oriented requests of the design team, staff needs, and business budgetary constraints to develop and implement solutions that achieve to the best customer experience. Keri is taking the best of the traditional construction approaches and applying her own collaborative philosophy to help advance business operations in both aesthetics and approach.