Professional experience and career objectives: I navigate the perilous seas between the continents of marketing, distribution and operations to help travel industry clients innovate, simplify and profit.
Offering extensive global travel industry experience, I have had success serving as a change catalyst and strategic innovator with both large mature firms and small startups.
My keen area of interest is profitably developing and implementing industry leading best practices.
Skills and areas of expertise: Strategic Planning, Business Development, Product Management, Electronic Distribution, Online Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Organizational Development, Social Networking, Operations, Financial Management
Current Employment
Founder
RockCheetah
(Tourism and Recreation) - United States
RockCheetah, by design, is as a highly responsive and flexible management advisory services organization focused on developing next generation e-commerce processes, global content, integrated marketing, seamless distribution and results oriented processes for the travel industry.
Former Employment
Vice President, Destination Experience
The Mark Travel Corporation
(Tourism and Recreation) - United States
Provided leadership over 75 member team tasked with contracting, product operations and relationship management over global hotel, car rental & feature suppliers for major North American Tour Operator. Supported United, Southwest, Spirit, Midwest, Continental (UK) and Funjet vacation brands.
Vice President, Hotel & Car
Cendant Travel Distribution Services / Neat Group
(Tourism and Recreation) - United States
Member of initial management team responsible for creating and patenting the first real-time dynamic packaging technology for the travel industry. Responsible for strategic planning, business development, account management, product requirements planning and productivity analysis for hotel and car.
Director, Electronic Distribution
Budget Group
(Tourism and Recreation) - United States
Created, implemented and provided leadership for Budget Group’s electronic distribution strategy for Budget Rent a Car. Developed industry-first direct interfaces with priceline.com, Southwest Airlines and EuropCar. Oversaw Global Distribution Systems generating 60% of firm’s reservation volume.
Director, Hospitality Development
Sabre Group
(Tourism and Recreation) - United States
Responsible for strategic planning efforts, development of new technologies and expansion of hospitality related content. Held responsibility for bottom-line profitability of Sabre's Hotel Program, generating $2.7 Billion in booking volume and $55 million in annual revenue.
Education
Cornell University United States (New York)
, august 1977 - may 1981
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