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- Carol Jacobs: PartnerPast Role: Alba Partners, MD and Co-Founder
- Assaad Tarabay: Co-Founder
Coconut is a social recruitment platform focused on connecting hospitality employers with client-facing talent through a more engaging, community-driven hiring experience. Operating within the online recruitment industry, the company specializes in helping recruiters identify high-quality hospitality professionals while enabling jobseekers to
discover career opportunities across the sector.
Coconut’s approach is designed to replicate the key drivers of successful hospitality hiring in offline environments — particularly personality, character, and referrals — and translate them into a modern digital recruitment experience. By addressing common industry challenges such as cluttered platforms, pricing complexity, and lack of transparency, the company creates a more efficient and user-friendly hiring ecosystem for both employers and candidates.
The platform serves an evolving hospitality industry where customer expectations continue to rise. Driven by affluent consumers seeking premium experiences and younger generations demanding innovative lifestyle and dining concepts, hospitality businesses increasingly rely on exceptional service talent to remain competitive. Coconut helps hospitality brands attract, engage, and retain the right professionals who can deliver these elevated customer experiences.
Through its social and community-focused recruitment model, Coconut supports hospitality employers in building stronger teams while helping jobseekers connect with meaningful career opportunities in an industry that is becoming increasingly experience-driven and talent-focused.