Dan Hawkie

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Chief Commercial Officer

Dan is Chief Commercial Officer at TiPJAR, the hospitality technology business helping operators collect, manage, distribute and pay tips fairly and transparently.

Having spent all of his career in and around hospitality, Dan combines an operator mindset with experience scaling high-growth technology businesses. Since joining TiPJAR, he has played a key role in the company’s continued growth, working with some of the UK’s best-known hospitality brands and building partnerships across payments, payroll and hospitality technology.

Dan is particularly passionate about the future of hospitality, how technology can improve the employee experience, and the commercial and operational challenges facing operators. He has also been closely involved in the industry conversation around tipping legislation and how businesses can create fair, transparent and sustainable approaches to rewarding their teams.

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Sept. 30, 2026

What does "Transparency" mean in Hospitality?

How transparent should hospitality leaders really be with their teams? It is easy to say that businesses should communicate openly. It is rather harder when the decision involves pay, difficult trading conditions, organisational change or something people simply do not want to hear. In this episode, Timothy R Andrews is joined by Adena Cahill, Molly Davis, Joe McDonnell and Dan Hawkie to explore what transparency actually looks like in a hospitality business, and why simply sending an email, ...