New York, NY (March 5, 2026) -- Marqii, the only discovery platform built specifically for hospitality businesses, has established its first Customer Advisory Board (CAB). Incorporating 15 hospitality leaders from QSR, FSR, emerging brands, catering, marketing advisors, and legacy brands, the Marqii CAB will serve as a growth community for each other and for the Marqii product. By giving feedback on early-stage product development and guiding the future of the Marqii platform, CAB industry experts will help more hospitality businesses stay one step ahead of their SEO, GEO, and guest engagement challenges.

Marqii Customer Advisory Board members include Rev Ciancio, Co-Founder & CMO of Handcraft Burgers & Brew, CMO of Salad House, and Hospitality Marketing Consultant; Trish Giordano, COO, CMO, & Co-Founder of VDC, Earl Enterprises, & Mealz Concepts, Kelly Grogan, Founder & CEO of Crumbs; Josh Halpern, Chief Business Officer of Craveworthy Brands; Amy Hom, COO of Barcelona Wine Bar; Stacey Kane, CMO of Mamouns, Garden Catering, Napa Hot Chicken, California Tortilla, Mahana Fresh, Chip Klose, Founder & CEO of Restaurant Strategy, Kevin Nemeth, CMO & Digital Transformation & Growth Marketing Leader, Nicole Perrella, Founder & Hospitality SEO + Local Visibility Strategist, CJ Ramirez, EVP Marketing of Dog Haus + The Absolute Brands, Deric Rosenbaum, President & CTO of Groucho’s Deli, Frank Solis, Head of Marketing at Taco Cabana, Jayson Tipp, Chief Development Officer of Playa Bowls, Angell Tsang, CTO & Co-founder of Tso Chinese Delivery , and Shawn Walchef, Founder of Cali BBQ Media. 

“Our #1 value at Marqii is to provide hospitality for the hospitality industry,” said Avi Goren, Marqii Co-Founder and CEO. “In partnership with our Customer Advisory Board members, we can achieve true customer-led developments in our product, create a community of open discussion and idea sharing, and learn new ways to support our hospitality partners and industry leaders.”

To learn more about Marqii’s suite of solutions that drive guest discovery, simplify SEO and AI search optimization, and improve local search performance, visit marqii.com.

About Marqii

Founded in 2017 by Avi Goren, Evan Perlmutter and Bryan Rutcofsky, Marqii is the most complete discovery platform built for hospitality businesses. With dozens of POS integrations and connections to more than 80 listings sites including Google, Yelp, Facebook, Bing, and Apple Maps, Marqii saves hospitality teams time by automating updates to their online menus, hours, location data, featured links, and more. Marqii Review Management gives multi-unit operators one place to track and respond to Yelp, Google, Facebook, OpenTable, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and ezCater reviews so they never miss a chance to engage with their guests, and AI review analysis features make it easy to take action on guest feedback. More than 15,000 hospitality businesses of all sizes use Marqii to rank higher in search results, and be found and chosen by more guests.

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