Capital
2007 – 2012
Valued $500M+ in commercial assets as one of the youngest Certified General Appraisers in Alabama history, then turned a division with three straight years of losses into a 140% net-income gain as a Director of Finance.
Phillip Hasha · Founder & OperatorSoftware · Real estate · Hospitality
I build businesses
— and then I run them.
An entrepreneur since 2007: a commercial real-estate firm, an award-winning live-music venue, and now PaperPlay and Tonightly, software for local live music that I design and build myself. I've owned a $10M+ P&L and led a team of 150+. Every claim on this page is dated and tied to a source you can check.
Building PaperPlay full-time · Huntsville, AL · open to advisory & operating roles · Updated November 2026
Or copy the address: phillip@paperplay.live
$10M+P&L owned · WorkPlay, 2018–2023reference-checkable
150+staff hired and led across FOH, BOH, and eventsreference-checkable
$65M+assets under management built · The Redmont Grouppublic record ↗ (opens source in new tab)
1production SaaS live — bookings, payouts, tax recordslive ↗ (opens source in new tab)
One founder's career. Three kinds of leverage.
Operations
2012 – 2023
Co-founded and ran an integrated real-estate firm — design to construction, in-house — then developed, owned, and operated WorkPlay, an award-winning live-music venue in Honolulu.
Software
2024 – today
Now building the operating software for the same rooms I used to run: PaperPlay, live in production — bookings, split payments, payouts, and tax records for local live music.
Most founders can either sell the vision or build the machine underneath it. I've done both, at real scale — and now I write the software too.
01Career ledger
The companies, dated end to end.
Reverse-chronological, sources attached. The résumé carries the same dates.
2024 → Present
Huntsville, AL · Remote
PaperPlay
Founder & Operator
Live-music SaaS — marketplace, booking, split payments, payouts, and tax records. Designed, built, and operated hands-on; live in production.
- Stripe-based split payments, payouts, and 1099 tax workflows running in production
- CI/CD with staging → production separation, automated test gates, and feature-flagged rollouts
- Launched Tonightly in October 2026: a no-login app for fans to find live music tonight, powered by PaperPlay and starting in Huntsville
- Won 1st place in the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber's 2026 PROPEL pitch competition
First product commit July 2024.
2018 → 2023
Honolulu, HI (Kakaʻako)
WorkPlay
Developer / Owner
Dual-concept venue: craft coffee and quiet work by day, craft cocktails and live music nightly. $10M+ scale, 150+ staff.
- NAIOP Hawaii Kukulu Hale Award, 2019 — credited Developer/Owner on the award record
- Converted a failed coworking concept into an award-winning venue — designed and built in-house
- Nightly live-music programming and full hospitality operations until close, September 2023
LLC registered June 2018; venue closed September 2023.
award record ↗ (opens source in new tab)scale: reference-checkable
Oct 2012 → 2023
Honolulu, HI
The Redmont Group
Co-founder, Principal & CEO
Integrated commercial real-estate firm — brokerage, appraisal, design, construction, and property management. 13 direct reports across 7 divisions; $2M+ annual revenues.
- Built the property and asset-management divisions to ~1M SF and $65M+ in assets under management
- 27.1% IRR and 1.72× equity multiple on a 38-unit repositioning, inside 30 months
- $30M+ in acquisition, lease, and redevelopment projects in a single 12-month span
- Structured and executed the acquisition of a large portion of a long-standing valuation firm
Jan → Oct 2012
Honolulu, HI
Direct Support Resources
Director of Finance
Second in authority to the CEO; led 30+ direct reports in a 100-employee organization.
- Turned three straight years of divisional losses into a 140% net-income increase — lifting company net income 42%
- Owned GAAP records, cash flow, forecasting, banking relationships, and capital-structure decisions
Dec 2007 → Dec 2011
Birmingham, AL
Hasha Appraisal & Consulting · ERA King
Certified General Appraiser · Commercial Agent
The analytical foundation: commercial valuation and brokerage, concurrently.
- Valued $500M+ in commercial assets; among the youngest in Alabama history to earn the Certified General license
- Concurrently the top-producing commercial agent among 120+ peers at ERA King, with $16M+ listed
Auburn University — B.S. Business Administration, Finance (2007) · Executive Master of Real Estate Development
02Selected work
Proof you can click.
Not a pitch deck — three ventures, each with dates, sources, and a way to check the claim.
Live product · SaaS
PaperPlay
The operating system for local live music — from finding the right artist to paying the full team, with a clean record of what happened.
- Stripe-based split payments and payouts live in production
- Tax-record (1099) workflows built into event close-out
- CI/CD with staging → production separation and release gates
- Automated test suites and fixtures gating every deploy
- Feature-flagged rollouts — new surfaces ship dark, then gate on
Operating case · 2018–2023
WorkPlay
An award-winning Honolulu venue: craft coffee and quiet work by day, craft cocktails and live music nightly — developed, owned, and operated end to end.
07:00Craft coffee.
Quiet work.
Quiet work.
22:00Craft cocktails.
Live music nightly.
Live music nightly.
NAIOP Kukulu Hale Award · 2019
Product deep-dive · inside PaperPlay
Band Builder
A structured way for bandleaders to fill a lineup without living in a group text — or exposing private calendar data.
Friday lineup3 / 4 filled
DRDrums · acceptedBSBass · acceptedKYKeys · invitedGTGuitar · next
Availability in. Private calendar data stays out.
03Right now
What I'm building now.
PaperPlay is my full-time focus: the operating system for local live music. Venues and artists use it to find each other, book the night, split the pay, and keep a clean tax record — the work I used to do by hand, every night, as the owner of a venue. In October 2026 we launched Tonightly, the fan-facing side: a no-login app for finding live music near you tonight, starting in Huntsville.
I've sat in most of the seats a company has: appraiser, finance lead, co-founder, developer, owner-operator. Today I also build the software myself. That mix — an owner's judgment with a builder's speed — is the edge PaperPlay runs on.
Alongside PaperPlay, I take on a small number of advisory, board, and operating engagements where that same mix is the difference. If that's what you need, let's talk.
Twice nominated by the Governor of Hawaiʻi to the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority — 2017 and 2022. The state checked the record too. public record ↗ (opens source in new tab)
04Operating system
I run on an operating system.
The same cadence ran a 150-person hospitality business and runs a one-person software company today — only the scoreboard changes.
01Vision02Annual goals03Quarterly rocks04Weekly scorecard05Issues + IDS06Execution
Eliminate
Does it need to exist? The fastest improvement is sometimes to stop doing it.
Automate
Can a system do it reliably? Use software and AI to remove repetitive work.
Delegate
Does it need a human — but not me? Put ownership where it's best equipped.
Do
Does it require my judgment? Spend leadership time only where it compounds.
My operating style is shaped by years of practical use of Traction/EOS principles. EOS®, Traction®, and related marks belong to their respective owners; no certification or affiliation is implied.
05External validation
The public record.
Dated, issued by someone else, and linked to the source.
2026PROPEL pitch competition — 1st place ($30,000), PaperPlayHuntsville/Madison County ChamberChamber — 2026 winners list 2022Renominated to the Hawaiʻi Community Development AuthorityGovernor of Hawaiʻi · State Senate recordSenate committee report 2019Kukulu Hale Award — WorkPlay (Developer/Owner)NAIOP HawaiiHawaii Business Magazine 2017Young Entrepreneur of the Year — City & County of HonoluluU.S. Small Business AdministrationMaui Now — lists the 2017 SBA honorees 2017Nominated to the HCDA; full résumé entered into the Senate recordGovernor of Hawaiʻi · State SenateGovernment record (PDF) 2016Profiled — Phillip Hasha and The Redmont GroupPacific Edge MagazinePacific Edge Magazine 2015Forty Under 40Pacific Business NewsAs listed on the 2017 government record 2015Best New Business — FinalistPacific Edge MagazineAs listed on the 2017 government record
Building something? Let's talk.
Building PaperPlay full-time · Huntsville, AL · open to advisory & operating roles · Updated November 2026
PaperPlay, partnerships, advisory work, or press — the reply comes from me, not a form. · phillip@paperplay.live