SJ Sawhney is the Co-Founder and President of Canary Technologies, the hotel industry’s leading guest technology company. Serving over 20,000 hotels globally, Canary offers award winning guest management solutions, including Canary AI, Mobile Check-In, Guest Messaging, Dynamic Upsells, Digital Tipping and others.

Canary works with the world’s largest hotel companies, including Four Seasons, Marriott, IHG, and Wyndham. Canary is one of the top-funded venture backed hotel technology companies globally and has raised nearly $100M.

Prior to co-founding Canary, Sawhney led product and technology at Stayful, a booking platform for independent and boutique hotels founded by the former president of Hotels.com. Sawhney is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully founded multiple venture-backed technology companies over the prior decade.

He is a graduate of Columbia University.