Aravinda joins from Sage where as Head of Platform Business Unit and SVP of Technology she led a globally distributed organisation spanning product, engineering and platform strategy. Her 28-year career includes leadership roles at Intuit, Ellie Mae and VeriSign, with expertise in SaaS architecture, AI-driven transformation and large-scale platform development. She was recently named among Channel Insider’s 2025 Top 50 AI Leaders in the Channel and is a Stevie Award winner.
Champa Magesh, CEO – Access Hospitality, said: “I am thrilled to welcome Aravinda to the team. Access Hospitality is evolving rapidly – unifying industry leading products like Paytronix and SHR into a next generation guest intelligence and hospitality distribution platform and building a truly end-to-end ecosystem that supports operators across F&B and accommodation. Our focus is on creating a single, intelligent platform that connects every part of hospitality and delivers meaningful impact for operators and guests. Aravinda brings deep experience in scaling platforms and leading AI innovation, and she joins at exactly the right moment as we accelerate this transformation and set a new benchmark for the industry.”
Aravinda Gollapudi, Chief Technology Officer, Access Hospitality, said: “The hospitality sector is at a massive inflection point where the scale of market opportunity meets the transformative power of Agentic AI. I am thrilled to join The Access Group to lead a platform strategy that doesn’t just automate tasks, but fundamentally reimagines how operators drive innovation. My priority is to ensure this evolution is built on a foundation of trust and transparency, creating an architecture where intelligent systems and human expertise work in seamless, reliable harmony to scale the enterprise.”
Her appointment supports Access Hospitality’s strategy to build an integrated platform spanning reservations, accommodation management, EPoS, payments, guest engagement, marketing, procurement, workforce management and operations. With millions of daily transactions and interactions processed through the platform, the company aims to advance agentic AI capabilities that operate autonomously, including pricing optimisation, demand forecasting, personalisation and operational efficiency.
Her role will cover the full technology organisation, focusing on platform architecture alignment and innovation strategy for the company’s global customer base. Based on the US East Coast, she will work closely with the UK-headquartered leadership team to strengthen coordination between the company’s US and European operations.
In addition, Aravinda serves as a board advisor to early-stage technology companies and is active in diversity and inclusion initiatives in the technology sector, having participated in internal and external panels and being recognised by Sage as a diversity champion.
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