Richard Valtr is an entrepreneur and a recovering hotelier. Richard grew up as the son of a programmer and a hotel developer and was educated at UCL in London. Upon his return to his native Czech Republic, he became responsible for a number of property developments, culminating in the creation of the Emblem Hotel. The idea for Mews originated from his time spent leading the concept development, design, procurement and project management of the Prague-based luxury hotel where he first thought of the idea for a system which would seamlessly remove the friction at the front desk and automate the back office entirely.