Skift Take
Many office workers will be thinking they’ve never had it so good, working at home with all the comforts that come with it. We're about to find out how office building landlords, and their tenants, draw them back in.
Mark DePiero has a long history in the meetings business. He was the second employee at Dolce Hotels & Resorts, an independent chain focused on business travelers. He helped expand it to 26 hotels across seven countries, before it was sold to Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. In 2014, he joined Convene as employee number three, and during his six years there the company grew from three to 26 properties.
Last year, he became CEO at Ease Hospitality, a management company spun off from New York-based real estate firm Fisher Brothers, which will specialize in luxury amenities, technology, and virtual and hybrid meeting facilities for workplaces.
Ease also opened its own building, @Ease1345, in New York in February this year, and from this vantage point DePiero is on the frontline of the debate companies are having about the relevance of offices in a post-pandemic wo
