Founder interview · October 2025
Chris Ogboke: Turning Access Into Experience with Squeez
Chris Ogboke on building infrastructure for the moments members remember.
Press & media
What’s beensaid so far.
Articles, interviews and panels featuring Squeez and its founder, Chris Ogboke.New coverage is added here as it’s published.
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Article · September 2025
Local startup helps you ‘Squeez’ into last-minute reservations
The origin story in print: the problem, the founder, and the access members have been waiting for.
Hospitality interview · September 2025
From Dinner Dilemma to Disruptor: How Squeez is Reshaping Hospitality
Chris in conversation with Prosper Forum: the reservation that started Squeez, and what access means for guests and operators.
Industry panel · July 2025
Personalize or paralyze? Hyper-personalization and discovery in travel
Chris joins the industry’s technology panel on where personalization serves the guest, and where it stops.
Article · November 2024
Meet the new startup that will help you ‘Squeez’ into last-minute reservations without stress
The first public mention: Squeez launches in Tampa.
Media kit
For editors and partners.
The short version of who we are, the words and marks we use, and the photography that can be reproduced with credit to Squeez, Inc.
About Squeez
Boilerplate, for use as written.
Squeez is an experiential loyalty commerce platform connecting leading loyalty programs with sought-after experiences.
By bringing together loyalty currencies, experience partners, and consumers, Squeez creates new ways for members to access experiences they value while helping partners reach new customers and generate incremental revenue.
Launching with golf and expanding into additional experience categories, Squeez is building a more connected, rewarding future for loyalty commerce.
Squeez, Inc. is based in Tampa, Florida.
In one line
For journalists and partners.
Where loyalty, access and experiences come together.
Chris Ogboke, Founder & CEO
Chris co-founded Gale Healthcare Solutions, a self-funded Tampa company that grew to over $200 million during his tenure. In 2022, Inc. ranked it among the top 20% of America’s fastest-growing private companies. He exited at a $60M Series A, and went on to build Squeez.
Why Squeez exists, in his words: “We’re not just paying for golf. We are buying the most finite resource: time.”
Brand
The company is Squeez.The experience is Local Luxury™, shown as Squeez | Local Luxury™, side by side.Never “powered by”.
Local Luxury™ and You’re in.™ always carry ™.
Local Luxury™
You’re in.™
Colors and type
Navy, stone and gold.
Newsreader for headlines, Hanken Grotesk for everything else.
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Headlines
Everything else
Photography
Site photography, available at full resolution on request.
First light under the oaks.
Lunch on the terrace after the round.
Home by 10:30. His coffee, the bottle, the glove, the keys.
For interviews and material.