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TBTC’08 will feature a range of highly regarded business travel consultants, industry representatives and senior business travel buyers who will give objective advice on their particular areas of expertise. A full list of speakers will be published soon. In the Spotlight 2008 Geoff Allwright
Geoff is the Travel and Expense manager for Airbus UK. Airbus have a global Travel Team that has successfully implemented a fully integrated on-line travel booking and expense management process. Geoff has previously been employed by HP and Intel as a Travel Manager.
Andy Lewis
Andy Lewis has headed the marketing function at Budget Rent-a-Car, the third largest global car rental operator, for over three years. Following the purchase of the company by Avis Europe in March 2003, Andy’s focus was to re-establish the brand and marketing effort across the EMEA region. Recent developments have included extensive network development, a new visual brand identity and promotional activities, as well as researching and launching new products including BusinessConnections – a new SME business rental programme. Gillian Upton
Gill has been so long in the industry she's too embarrassed to say exactly how many years it is. She's edited Business Traveller magazine, the pan-European newsletter Business Travel Analyst for the Financial Times, the business travel coverage in the Evening Standard, Meet Britain for Visit Britain, and so on, ad nauseum! Her career hasn't all been about business travel; it's also spanned local newspapers, the industry bible Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Fashion Weekly and Marketing magazine. Editing TBTM is naturally the highlight of these achievements! Alison Smith
Alison Smith joined Carlson Wagonlit Travel in February 2005 as Corporate Sales Director. With a proven track record of successful selling, Alison moved to become Director of Sales in January 2007. Her main responsibilities include leading the UK sales team towards the growth of the company, as well as strengthening and supporting the company’s expanding global position. Christophe Juneau
Christopher Juneau has been with Concur for over 6 years, and currently manages all aspects of product marketing for Concur’s suite of integrated on-demand Employee Spend Management services for Europe. Mr. Juneau received his Masters in Business Administration degree from Emory University and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University. Robert Daykin
Robert’s background is in Sales and Marketing, Project Management and Strategic Purchasing. He has previously held travel purchasing and management roles for companies such as The Littlewoods Organisation, Dresser Industries and The Halliburton Company. In 1999, he established travelConsult, a specialist travel purchasing and management consultancy offering services exclusively to corporate clients. His client list included major organisations in finance, retailing, engineering, oil, recruitment, IT and telecommunications. Pierre-Emmanuel Tetaz
Pierre-Emmanuel Tetaz is Managing Director of ETAP-ON-LINE (Paris, London & Toronto); leading Expense Management Solutions player in Europe with the ULYSSE T&E solution. Pierre-Emmanuel co-founded ETAP-ON-LINE with Pierre Higelin in 1999, following 10 years in strategy consultancy and ERP / financial systems integrations. Since 1997, he has focussed on growing the business in the field of Expense Management optimisation and on-demand services for all types of organizations. In 2007 Pierre-Emmanuel won a business leadership award from the organisation of French SMEs.Nicholas Mercer
As Commercial Director for Eurostar Group/Eurostar UK Nick Mercer has overall responsibility for all sales, marketing and PR activities in all markets. Nick's primary responsibility is for all revenue generation activities across the business. Prior to joining Eurostar Nick has, at various times, held Sales and Marketing Director positions with Air Miles, First Direct and Open, the Sky TV interactive platform. Graeme Milne Peter Ducker Paul Tilstone
Paul Tilstone worked in the business travel industry for 16 years for travel management companies, including Portman and P&O Travel, before taking up the Executive Director position at the Institute of Travel Management in 2005. Since then he has overseen substantial membership growth of the association, the creation of ITM Research and the introduction of Project ICARUS - with targeted carbon emission reduction across the industry as the project's focus. He regularly presents at conferences and the annual business travel show in London. Jonathan Green
Jonathan joined JMP Consultants in June 2008 who are providers of sustainable transport solutions. Tony Pilcher
Shelley Hastie Ron Mitchell
Ron moved into purchasing over 20 years ago working for blue chip companies such as Comet and B&Q. He is an Institute of Purchasing and Supply member with whom Zurich Financial Services hold the coveted Gold Award for Purchasing Excellence. The merger of Zurich with Allied Dunbar and Eagle Star meant Ron was responsible for the rationalisation of travel needs for the new organisation, introducing on-line booking tools for air, hotels and rail achieving 75% adoption rates. He also manages procurement of Zurich's UK travel requirements and is involved in the introduction of a Global Travel Policy.
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