Kinesh Patel

Co-founder SevenRooms

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Kinesh Patel is one of the three co-founders of SevenRooms, the New York company that builds reservation, table-management, CRM and marketing software for restaurants, hotels and other hospitality businesses. He founded it in 2011 with Joel Montaniel and Allison Page, and for much of its life served as Chief Technology Officer, running the engineering teams behind the platform. He is the technical founder of the trio: before SevenRooms he led scientific computing work at ExxonMobil, and he is an electrical and computer engineer by training. DoorDash completed its acquisition of SevenRooms in June 2025, in a transaction PSG put at $1.2 billion.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded SevenRooms in 2011 with Joel Montaniel and Allison Page.
• Listed with his co-founders as an executive officer and director of Sevenrooms Inc. in the company’s July 2019 SEC Form D.
• Served as SevenRooms’ Chief Technology Officer, leading its engineering teams.
• SevenRooms grew from about 2,000 venues in 2020 to more than 13,000, according to its growth-equity investor PSG.
• DoorDash completed the acquisition of 100 percent of SevenRooms on 13 June 2025.
• Earlier worked as Team Lead of Scientific Computing at ExxonMobil.

Professional Journey

Patel studied electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and worked at ExxonMobil, where he was Team Lead of Scientific Computing. He also holds an MBA in finance and strategy from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

In 2011 he co-founded SevenRooms in New York with Joel Montaniel, named in the company’s 2025 releases as Co-Founder and CEO, and Allison Page. In Montaniel’s words, they founded it “with a mission to help hospitality operators understand their guests and grow their business”. Its products span reservations and table management, marketing, operations and guest experience, all integrated with its CRM. As CTO, Patel led the engineering teams that built that platform. The company’s July 2019 SEC Form D lists all three founders as executive officers and directors.

Growth-equity firm PSG invested in 2020, when SevenRooms served about 2,000 venues; by 2025 it served more than 13,000, and in 2024 it acquired HeyPluto to add AI-driven personalised messaging. On 6 May 2025 DoorDash announced an agreement to acquire SevenRooms, adding its in-venue tools to DoorDash’s commerce platform for merchants. DoorDash completed the acquisition on 13 June 2025.

Education

New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

MBA, Finance and Strategy

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering