For this episode, The Gateway will be taking to the putting greens with the hopes of finally beating the windmill as we discuss innovation, hospitality, and providing a unique entertainment experience for customers with Puttshack’s CEO, Joe Vrankin.

Puttshack is a leading concept in the emerging and growing market of competitive socializing. Combining a tech-infused mini golf game with exceptional food and beverage offering, Puttshack has multi-generation appeal. Patented Trackaball™ technology al-lows guests to play a point scoring game surrounded by an upscale and exciting environment. Puttshack currently operates 9 total locations in the U.S. and U.K. with 11 more locations coming soon.

Joe Vrankin is a 20+-year C-Suite executive – Current CEO of Puttshack, Former CEO, Topgolf International. Joe’s core experience is focused on middle-market businesses, within multiple industries, that find themselves at a key inflection point in their company development. At the start of 2019 Joe joined Puttshack as its CEO and a member of its board of directors. Joe served as CEO of Topgolf for five years and joined when there was just one location in the U.S. Topgolf was acquired in early 2021 by Callaway in a transaction valued at $2.6 billion.

https://www.puttshack.com/