Uli Pillau

Uli Pillau is the founder and CEO of Apaleo, the Munich-based API-first hospitality platform powering the next generation of hotel technology. A serial entrepreneur and investor in travel tech, he has spent over three decades shaping the digital transformation of the hospitality industry. Before Apaleo, he co-founded Hetras, one of the first native cloud PMS solutions, and held leadership roles at Fidelio Software (later Micros/Oracle) and IDeaS, the global leader in hotel revenue management systems. Originally trained as a hotelier at the InterContinental Berlin, Uli has built his career at the intersection of hospitality and technology, driving innovation through openness, and connectivity.