On your side of the table.

Founding CEO

Daniel R. Döderlein

Daniel Döderlein is the founder and CEO of Tablez. A serial entrepreneur with three decades in the trenches and six exits, he has built and scaled companies across technology, product design, services, advertising, media, apparel, and financial services.

His work in hospitality runs on both sides of the pass. On the tech and investment side, he has built and backed platforms that serve restaurants, hotels, and lifestyle venues. On the operational side, he has spent years inside kitchens and front-of-house teams, learning what it takes to deliver an extraordinary evening to a table of four on a Saturday night. Tablez is the product he wished existed every time he watched a phone ring unanswered in a busy dining room.

Daniel was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 by the Norwegian Venture Capital Association. He has served on the Google Cloud Customer Advisory Board, contributed as a fintech expert at Forbes, and been featured on CNBC, BBC, and Bloomberg discussing entrepreneurship, AI, and the future of commerce. He is a resident startup mentor for Innovation Norway, completed the Pretotyping programme under former Google executive Alberto Savoia, and is the author of the Idea Validation Framework and the Simple Strategy Framework.

Outside work, Daniel is an active private pilot rated for land and seaplanes. He is a devoted cook and a lifelong appreciator of the craft behind a well-run kitchen. With Tablez, he is on a mission to put the power back in the hands of restaurants. He is on your side of the table.

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Founding CPTO

Paul Onnen

Paul Onnen is the Chief Product and Technology Officer of Tablez. Paul brings 30 years of building and scaling digital platforms, having led engineering and product at global companies including Amazon, Google, Expedia, and Nordstrom, as well as multiple startups. Deep expertise in AI, SaaS, e-commerce, and data security. Track record of driving platform strategy, leading global teams, and shipping technology that fuels business growth. As CPTO, Paul is building a resilient, future-ready platform that turns our vision into reality.

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Founding CCO

Kieran O'Connor

Kieran O'Connor is the Chief Commercial Officer of Tablez. A commercial operator who has spent nearly a decade inside the global startup ecosystem. He founded a global recruitment business solving complex talent problems across engineering, data, and AI, placing talent into venture-backed companies supported by Y Combinator, Index Ventures, and Sequoia.

Before recruitment, Kieran competed. He played football in the Welsh leagues, represented the Football Association of Wales, and trialled for Cardiff City. He competed professionally in esports, paid to play across Liverpool, Blackpool, and Amsterdam. Both taught him the same thing: the gap between good and great is almost always mental, not technical.

He has invested in four early-stage companies, written two books on psychology-led recruitment sold across eleven countries, spoken at universities, accelerators, and brands including PepsiCo, and built a content practice with over 50,000 followers. He has completed five ultramarathons, including The World's Toughest Mudder, 113 kilometres in 24 hours.

Kieran joined Tablez because he has sat in enough great restaurants to know what gets lost when the phone rings unanswered. The regulars who never get remembered. The relationship that never quite builds. Tablez gives restaurants the tools to own their guest relationships rather than rent them from a platform. That mission is personal. He is on your side of the table.

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