SVP, Sales
Qu
Niko is a diverse executive with 20 years of experience in finance, tech, and team and company building. He is Qu’s co-founder and currently acts as senior vice president of sales and business development.
Niko works collaboratively with his marketing, product, and operations counterparts to ensure the customer journey is priority no. 1, ensuring Qu creates tangible value for its customers. Niko’s teams direct the company’s efforts with integration partners, strategic partners, and Qu’s most strategic prospective and existing enterprise accounts. Over his time at Qu, helping grow the company from five to 300+ terrific people (and counting), Niko has been responsible for revenue, marketing, and keeping a hyperfocus on continued product-market fit.
Sunday Jan 11
1:00pm - 1:30pm
MicroTouch Stage
Playa Bowls is on the road to 500+ locations by the end of 2026—and as the brand scaled, its legacy tech stack couldn’t keep up: fragmented systems, inconsistent execution, and an inefficient store-opening process. In this session, Playa leaders join Qu and Esper to share how they rebuilt the foundation by modernizing devices and POS, unifying data, and rolling out tools operators actually like using. You’ll get practical lessons on avoiding legacy pitfalls while balancing enterprise control with franchisee empowerment. And yes—there’s one unforgettable KDS story that made paper chits feel instantly outdated.
Bring your earbuds + mobile device to this session! Session audio will be transmitted via a silent conferencing system. Use your own mobile device during the live session to access the audio feed. (Extra earbuds available, while supplies last.)
