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Peter Bost
Director - International Network
ATPi
Peter started his career with Hilton hotels in Asia where he also grew up. He is one of the original founders and investors in the ATPI Group and has always focused on its international growth. In his current role he is responsible for the development and expansion of ATPI’s international partner and franchise network with wholly owned offices in over 20 countries and strategic partnerships in another 25.

Amon Cohen
Specialist Business Travel Writer

Amon Cohen is a specialist business travel writer. He is contributing editor to Business Travel News, the US journal for travel managers, and pens a regular column for Buying Business Travel in the UK, as well as authoring numerous reports for companies in the travel industry and appearing regularly as a moderator and commentator on the conference circuit. Amon works from home in Somerset, UK, where he moonlights as bass player for country music band The Johnsons.

Trevor Elswood
Managing Director
Booking Services International
Trevor joined Booking Services International (BSI) in 2000 as Head of Account Management & Supplier Relations and joined the main board in 2004 as Commercial Director overseeing supply management, customer relationship development and group commercial strategies. In 2007 he was appointed to the Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) Executive Board as Chairman of the Technology, Innovation and Environment Committee. In April 2008 Trevor was appointed by the board as BSI’s Managing Director and in December 2010, following Capita Group’s acquisition of BSI, Trevor was also appointed Managing Director of Capita Business Travel. 

Vicky Fernandez de Larrea
Senior VP Benelux & Product Marketing EMEA
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Vicky was born in Bilbao, Spain and studied Business Administration at the Universidad del País Vasco. On her 23rd she moved to Belgium, where she completed her studies in the Limburg University Centre (now called Hasselt University) as part of an exchange programme. Before she started working at CWT in 1999, she worked in Brussels in Business Development and Business Process Re-Engineering, for multinational companies such as Chrysler At CWT she has held various positions in Operations, Program Management, Sales and Product Marketing.These positions have been in the EMEA zone as well as a worldwide; Vicky has been located in several countries including Belgium, UK, Spain and Singapore. Vicky speaks French and Dutch (in addition to Spanish, English and Italian). Vicky’s current position is Senior Vice President Benelux and Product Marketing EMEA.

Dr Johannes Fuhr
Executive Board Member
HRS

Dr Johannes Fuhr has been a Member of the Executive Board at Europe's leading hotel portal, HRS, since May 2012. In this position, he is responsible for the global hotel sourcing and ongoing development of services for HRS’s 250,000 hotel partners in 180 countries. Dr Fuhr holds an MBA (ESB Reutlingen and Portland State University) and a doctoral degree in economics (Berlin University of Technology). Johannes joined HRS in 2008 as a Director of Strategy and Corporate Development. From 2002 to 2008, Johannes was active in various procurement roles at Europe's leading airline Lufthansa German Airlines.

Yves Galimidi
Global Travel Purchaser
Ikea

Yves Galimidi, Global Travel Purchaser for IKEA, is a travel industry veteran of 20 years’ experience with a strong background in business travel management. He joined IKEA in 1993, starting as Travel Manager for the Inter IKEA Group of companies, a world-wide coordination center located in Waterloo, Belgium. In April 2005 he moved to IKEA’s newly established Global Procurement Department, IMS Indirect Material & Services, where he is responsible for purchasing all business travel, meetings & conferences related services and process applications. Prior to joining IKEA, Yves has worked for 6 years for Carlson Wagonlit Travel, where he got bitten by the business travel bug. He is currently serving a 3 years term as ACTE European Board member.

Olav Glorvigen
Director Sales & Market Development
Star Alliance
Olav is an airline executive with worldwide expertise in strategy, sales, market development and global alliances, currently with Star Alliance Services GmbH in Frankfurt.
Managing the world's leading suite of airline alliance products, he is among other products looking after the “Corporate Plus” product which in 2012 sold for 2,6 billion dollars. The Round The World fare is the market leading multi airline product which he manages on behalf of all Star Alliance members. In close cooperation with airlines’ executives, products for the meetings industry as well as “Conventions Plus” which is being copied by other alliances, are also seeing great success under his management.
Norwegian by birth, a world-citizen in his heart, he direct employees from 13 countries and five continents at Star Alliance, well informed by 12 years on the ground in Asia and The Pacific regions. His greatest multicultural challenge is as Dad to two little quadrilingual Asian-Europeans at home.

Kalle Greven
VP of Business Partner Sales
Deutsche Bahn

Kalle Greven is Head of Business Partner Sales of Deutsche Bahn Vertrieb GmbH. With his department he is responsible for corporate customer sales, international sales and sales through touristic cooperations. He joined the Deutsche Bahn group in April 2012. Prior to that he worked for McKinsey&Company for 10 years, working for clients globally focusing on the rail and travel industry. Kalle Greven has a MPA from the Columbia University New York and a Diploma in Molecular Biology.

Ian Heywood
Head of Global Supplier Strategy
Travelport
Ian has spent the majority of his working life at British Airways where he joined as an apprentice and held a number of commercial roles in the UK and overseas before moving to Hong Kong to take up the role of Area Sales Manager Far East. Ian then moved to Singapore to lead the integration of the British Airways and Qantas Sales and Marketing teams in South East Asia. Following the successful completion of this task he then returned to the UK where he held numerous positions including Head of Corporate Sales and Head of Consumer and Agency Sales. After leaving BA in 2006, Ian carried out some consultancy work before joining Qatar Airways as SVP Global Sales and Distribution in 2007. Late 2009 Ian returned back to the UK to run various consultancy projects until 2011 when Ian joined Travelport as Head of Global Supplier Strategy. In this role his key focus is to ensure that Travelport offers a consistent global approach to airlines worldwide that enables them to maximise their yields and increase revenue streams through the GDS channel. To further strengthen airline relationships and help enhance long term, mutually beneficial partnerships that enable airline customers to distribute their flights and merchandising content in a way that works for their key businesses and other key industry stakeholders. This has led to the launch of the Travelport Merchandising Platform with ‘Aggregated Shopping’ ‘Ancillary Services’ and ‘Rich Content’ which enables airlines to adapt their business models to whatever competitive/ economic environment they operate in and for travel agents to access enhanced airline content in their normal workflow.

Michael Hodgson
Head of EMEA Sourcing and Global Indirect Sourcing
RBS
Michael has worked for The Royal Bank Of Scotland for over 15 years, his role involves developing and maintaining a third party supply chain service in over 23 countries. His team are responsible for the strategic sourcing approach to travel management throughout the global organisation to deliver industry best practice and innovation to T and E. Michael has a long history in the travel and leisure industry having grandparents who worked and set up travel agencies in the North of England. He lives in Amsterdam but travels a lot in his role, having to work within his own teams travel strategy.

Susan Hopley
CEO & Founder
The Data Exchange
Susan Hopley is founder and CEO of The Data Exchange, an online data trading platform focusing on the demands of the travel industry. Susan has extensive experience in travel and data, in particular the founding of International Software Products and its sale to TRX in 1999, where she remained as an executive until 2011 before taking the founding role she currently holds.

Toby Joseph
Sales Director
easyJet
Toby is an travel industry veteran, with over 25 years’ experience of the multinational corporate travel market. He has served in senior commercial roles with companies including CWT, Tui, Eos Airlines and Jumeirah Group. Currently he is European Sales Director for easyJet,with responsibility for the corporate travel sector across all markets.

Pascal Jungfer
CEO
Areka Consulting
Pascal has more than 20 years’ experience in business travel and consulting, with expertise in sourcing and global project management. In the 10 years before creating Areka, he set up and managed the consulting division of a world-leading travel management company, growing the team to more than 100 consultants worldwide. He also brings more than a decade’s experience in management consulting with companies including Accenture, Cap Gemini and Mars &Co. A graduate of the ESCP management school in France and the Franco British Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pascal has worked and lived in France, Singapore and Gabon.

Fergal Kelly
VP Travel Merchandising & Distribution
Travelport

In his role, Fergal Kelly has overall responsibility for strategy and products in Travel Merchandising and Distribution. Joining Travelport in 2009 to manage its fares and shopping solutions, and having held several roles leading product and strategy in Fares and Pricing , Hotel, Car and Rail, Fergal is now responsible for the strategic direction of Travelport’s global merchandising capabilities and assuring the richness, relevance and reach of Travelport's content and distribution capabilities for airlines, hotels and other travel providers. In the last 20 years, operating in programme and delivery roles across 8 different industries, Fergal has most recently spent 12 years in senior leadership roles in technology product marketing in both large travel technology and start up environments, delivering solutions in fares management, airfare pricing and procure to pay cloud based platforms.

Eoin Landers
Senior Manager Business Development
Concur
Eoin Landers is a Senior Manager of Business Development and heads up the Travel team in EMEA. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the Travel industry. He has worked for Airlines, Hotels, Global Distributions Systems and Travel Management Companies where he has gained an expert reputation of solving important business issues through the use of dynamic and intelligent processes optimization.

Jean-Pierre Martin
Head of Sales
Thalys

Jean-Pierre has been appointed Head of Sales for Thalys International in October 2010. He is in charge of Sales & Distribution for Thalys worldwide through direct and indirect channels. He is also responsible for developing Corporate Sales in France, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. He leads a team of 15 people. From September 2002 until September 2010, Jean-Pierre went through different commercial positions for British Airways, ending up with a Sales Manager position Belgium & Luxembourg for the last three years. Jean-Pierre was in charge of Trade and Corporate Sales in BeLux,leading a team of 7 people. Before taking up commercial positions, Jean-Pierre worked for the Customer Service department for British Airways at Brussels Airport from 1995 to 2002 where he developed operational knowledge and a customer orientated mind. Before his 15 years time at British Airways, Jean-Pierre spent a few years working as a travel agent.

Matthew Pancaldi
Head of Client Management
HRG

Matthew Pancaldi joined HRG in 1999 as Head of Account Management for London and the Southern Region, was promoted to Director, UK Business Group in September 2005 and then made Director of Sales UK in early 2008.
A graduate in Social Geography from the University of Sussex, Matthew spent the early part of his career in travel management where he held several senior sales roles.
Matthew prior to his recent appointment as Head of Client Management, was Director of Sales Europe and Asia with overall responsibility for the HRG corporate sales strategy across these regions, focusing on developing new business opportunities and securing new managed corporate travel clients. Matthew now runs the HRG global client management team and is responsible for meeting and exceeding the needs of all our clients worldwide.

Clare Murphy
Director

Bouda
During a successful career in the travel industry Clare has built a reputation as a specialist in sourcing strategic travel solutions. She spent 12 years at Travelport as Head of Customer Sales working with UK and Global Travel Management Companies to deliver leading edge technology for their corporate clients. More recently she held the position of Commercial Director at Capita Business Travel where she led the Account Management & was responsible for strategic product development. Since forming the company four years ago, Bouda have supported over 40 corporations from a wide range of industries to operate and manage successful travel programmes.

Oliver Quayle
Senior VP Products & Partners
KDS
With a background in BI, Project, Portfolio and Risk Management (PPM) Oliver joined KDS in 2010 to bring new products to market and build the strategic partner network. Prior to KDS Oliver worked at Oracle (PPM), Primavera (PPM), Evolve (PSA) and on a number of SAP procure-to-pay implementations. Oliver has a BSc (hons) in Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Steven Read
COO
Conferma
Steven has a strong background in IT systems development and delivery in the highly competitive business sectors of Finance and Telecoms. In his capacity as Chief Operating Officer at Conferma since March 2009, Steve has overseen the expansion of the Conferma network which combines the resources of multiple banks, card schemes, GDS, TMCs and online booking channels into a single platform. The development of Conferma’s innovative virtual card number (VCN) technology has brought the corporate travel community better control, better data and better process efficiency.’

Christophe Renard
VP CWT Solutions Group
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Christophe leads theCWT Solutions Groupwhich is CWT's global consulting business. Christophe has held a range of global leadership roles across many key areas of CWT’s business over the past 15 years. Previous to his current role, Christophe was responsible for business intelligence, corporate marketing, communications, and the CWT Travel Management Institute, which partners closely with theCWT Solutions Groupto provide a continual flow of actionable insights that help CWT customers manage their travel programme effectively. Christophe began his career in sales and programme management with CWT France.

John Scott
CEO
Voyage Manager
John started Voyage Manager in May 2008 following first-hand experience of travelling in remote places and at times of crisis. In Voyage Manager John has been able to create a company that provides an easy to use, advanced and automated system for tracking, monitoring and managing employee travel.

Jim Steven
Executive VP Commercial
Drum Cussac

Jim is currently Executive VP Commercial for Drum Cussac, a Business Risk Consultancy. He has worked in the security and risk management sector for in excess of 20 years for some of the largest security organisations in the world. During this time he has led security solutions across a number of differing industry sectors, including aviation, ports, oil & gas and the corporate marketplace. He has extensive knowledge around the challenges companies face moving into new or emerging markets and how this impacts their travelling community. In his current role Jim heads up the Commercial aspect for Drum Cussac including Sales Marketing & Commercial teams.

Pascal Struyve
Global Travel, Fleet & Meeting Services Director
Ingersoll-Rand
Pascal has an extensive travel management background in both corporate and travel environments. After 15 years in the travel industry on the supplier side Pascal joined in 2005 American Standard Companies as their EMEA Travel Manager. Within American Standard he became global director of travel and meeting services in 2007. American Standard went through a name change in 2007 and became Trane before it was acquired by Ingersoll-Rand in June 2008. Since 2008 he has the global responsibility for the Travel as well as Fleet, Meeting Services and the Credit Card programme. He is based at the EMEA headquarters in Brussels. Pascal serves on the Board of BATM (Belgium Association of Travel Management) and was the President of the Association from 2008 till the end of 2012. 

Wolter van Houwelingen
Global Trave Reporting Manager
Unilever
Wolter held various travel roles within Unilever for the past 15 years. At the moment he is Global Travel Reporting Manager as well as Travel Manager for EMEA and is based in Rotterdam. Wolter is also a board member of CORTAS (Corporate Travel Association) since 2009.

Alain van West
VP Business Development
SilverRail Technologies
A senior management professional with over 20 years of leadership experience in the travel industry, Alain van West has worked with leading travel companies such as US Airways, Eurostar, BCD, CWT and American Express. Currently the VP, Business Development of SilverRail Technologies, the innovative company leading the charge to make rail as easy to book as air, he continues to transform strategic ideals into tangible business initiatives with great success. Alain is proficient in four languages, a public speaker and recognized leader in the travel industry.

Martin Warner
Partner
Global Innovation Partners
Martin is a veteran senior executive of the Travel Management industry, a specialist in travel distribution and TMC’s specifically from a career spanning more than 30 years around the world. 
His career with CWT spanned 3 decades and the last 20 years spent in International markets and is known to many in Australia from his 10 years in Australia and Singapore, latterly as COO, Asia Pacific. 
Martin left CWT at the end of 2012 and joined Travel Innovation Partners as Chief Innovation Officer and one of four, founding Partners. TIP’s vision is to identify innovative travel related products and services that will be game changers to the industry in areas of revenue generation & growth, as well as cost reduction and efficiency. In identifying such products, largely from small & emerging companies, TIP help these companies expand both the scale and geographical reach of their client base.

Siew Hoon Yeoh
Founder
Web in Travel
Yeoh Siew Hoon founded Web In Travel in 2005. She saw a need for the industry to recognize and deal with the changes that would come from the Internet and technology. It started out as an annual conference (now held in partnership with ITB Asia) and has grown into a content and community portal for anyone passionate about the online travel space in Asia Pacific.
Other than online travel, Siew Hoon is passionate about inspiring young minds – which WIT does through its WITNext vehicle – and entrepreneurship and innovation through its WIT Bootcamp.
Siew Hoon is also a regular speaker and facilitator at travel industry conferences and workshops. She is also a published author, having written titles including “Truth, Lies & Other Stuff”, “Around Asia in 1 Hr: Tales of Condoms, Chillies & Curries” and “Losing My Innocence, Finding My Groove”.
In 2009, she co-wrote a children’s book “The Adventures of Habibi, The Wise Turtle”, with 17-year-old Nigel Chee for Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa, Oman, to promote environmental awareness and conservation of green turtles in the Oman area. In August 2012, her second children’s book, “The Story Of Baitong & Boon”, which she c0-wrote with 16-year-old Phantila Phataraprasit, was published.