Sebastien Long

Founder & CEO at Lodgeur

Speaker

Sébastien is an Anglo-French founder who emigrated to Houston from London in 2018. He grew up immersed in his parents’ hospitality business and interacted with 30,000 travelers before earning an international management degree at the University of Bath (UK).

He spent the first decade of his career traveling the world digitizing banks and their operating models across five continents. Looking for a new challenge, he started an Executive MBA at the University of Cambridge and helped two Silicon Valley unicorns come to Europe.

He launched the UK market for Sonder and advised a food-tech company on European market entry. Although hospitality is in his DNA, he’s a banker by training.

Sébastien’s experience comes from modernizing banks like HSBC: developing more customer-centric operations, improving risk management, and fighting financial crime. This background is surprisingly useful in Lodgeur’s mission to provide an operating system that combines hospitality operations and multifamily apartment assets.

One of his hobbies is other people’s startups: Sébastien mentors early-stage founders with MassChallenge, Founder Institute, and Capital Factory.