Phillip Hasha is a founder and operator based in Huntsville, Alabama, whose career spans capital, operations, and software.
Today he is building PaperPlay, the operating system for local live music. Venues and artists use it to find each other, book the night, split payments, pay out the full team, and keep clean tax records. Hasha designs and builds the platform himself. In October 2026 he launched Tonightly, PaperPlay's fan-facing app: a no-login way to find live music near you tonight, starting in Huntsville. That same month, PaperPlay won first place in the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce's PROPEL pitch competition.
He started his career in commercial real estate in Birmingham, becoming one of the youngest Certified General Appraisers in Alabama history and valuing more than $500 million in commercial assets. In 2012 he moved to Honolulu, where he co-founded The Redmont Group, an integrated real-estate firm covering brokerage, appraisal, design, construction, and property management, and grew its asset-management business to more than $65 million under management. He then developed, owned, and operated WorkPlay, a day-to-night café and live-music venue in Kakaʻako that won NAIOP Hawaii's 2019 Kukulu Hale Award, owning a $10M+ P&L and leading a team of 150+.
Hasha was named one of Pacific Business News' Forty Under 40 in 2015 and the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2017 Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the City and County of Honolulu, and was twice nominated by the Governor of Hawaiʻi to the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority, in 2017 and 2022. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Finance) from Auburn University, where he also completed an Executive Master of Real Estate Development.
