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Famous for her hard-hitting reports from the frontline, Adie is a highly respected broadcast journalist who has travelled the world reporting from the likes of the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, the 1991 Gulf War, Tiananmen Square and, closer to home, the Iranian Embassy siege in London. Such is her reputation for reporting from major trouble spots that a popular saying during her days working for BBC News was, “a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off.”
Adie will address delegates at The Business Travel Conference ’09, discussing her experiences in the thick of the action, her worldwide travels and emergency situations, and will also take questions from those in attendance. TBTC’09 takes place at the Novotel London West, this September 21-22 and is comprised of a series of conference sessions and workshops, plus an exhibition of up to 50 leading business travel suppliers.
Kate Adie started working as a studio technician with BBC local radio after graduating in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She moved from local radio in Durham, as a producer, to Bristol where she specialised in farming and arts programmes. She worked as a director in Television Outside Broadcasts - mainly sport and religion – and, at BBC Plymouth, went into news as a regional TV reporter, subsequently working in Southampton and Brighton.
When she moved to BBC TV national news in 1979 she covered general news stories, many abroad, and was Court Correspondent for two years. She has reported from most of the world's trouble spots and won awards for her coverage of Northern Ireland and the American bombing in Tripoli. On her return from China in June 1989 she was promoted to Chief News Correspondent. |
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Director of Business Travel
Advantage Travel Centres
For the past 15 years Norman Gage has been director of business travel at Advantage, the leading UK independent travel agency consortium. He is responsible for all business travel related activity across the group of 200+ business travel outlets, which includes playing a large part in the Advantage Focus Partnership. Norman’s instigation of the Focus Partnership (formerly known as Focus Group) has led to the set up of Focus4Fares and Focus1GDS. |
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Travel & Expense Manager
Airbus UK
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. |
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Global Category Leader, Business Travel
Astra Zeneca
Taking the lead role for Business Travel at AstraZeneca in 2009, Caroline has moved into a rapidly changing environment with the opportunity to build a world-class programme across 100+ countries. Caroline has 20 years travel and meetings industry related experience, in the earlier years working supplier side for the likes of BTI and American Express. In more recent years Caroline has enjoyed the switch across to the corporate side and has been instrumental in creating groundbreaking travel programmes at both Yahoo! And Cisco. |
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Managing Director
Bath Business Travel
Adam has extensive experience in the Business Travel industry having spearheaded the growth of My Travel’s corporate sector over a ten year period since 1996, latterly as managing director of the group’s business travel operation, BTM.
Prior to specialising in the corporate market, White spent 17 years with Thomas Cook, where his responsibilities included Group Purchasing as well as numerous general management roles.
Adam joined Bath Business Travel in 2007 as Managing Director and has recently been voted in as Treasurer for the Guild of Travel Management Companies (GTMC). |
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Head of Sourcing - Production Resources
BBC
Jamie Hindhaugh is Head of Sourcing for Production Resources and Head of Logistics at the BBC. These two significant roles cover:
- Sourcing for Post Production and Graphics, Studios, Lighting, Scenery, Props, Outside Broadcasts, Locations, Shooting, Make Up, Costume, Radio and Music Facilities, New Media, Content, Knowledge and Reference.
- Logistics for the total BBC Transport and BBC Travel services from the provision of ground transport and fleet services to more traditional flight, rail and hotel programmes.
Jamie was recently appointed Vice Chairman of the Institute of Travel Management and will become Chairman in 2010 when the current Chairperson’s term of office ends. |
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Global Meetings Manager
BP
Kerrie Henshaw-Cox is the Global Meetings Manager for BP. She joined BP in 2007, into a newly created role within their Global Travel team. Last year Kerrie created a Meetings & Events policy and this year projects include issuing an RFP to venues for an initial Preferred Meetings Programme, the implementation of Meetings Management tool and later in the year an RFP for Venue Finding agency services. |
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Senior Sales Manager - Global Accounts
Bridgestreet Worldwide Serviced Apartments
Gary began his career in the finance industry, he is relatively new to the hospitality industry, joining HRS as a sales manager in 2008 before joining BridgeStreet Worldwide Serviced Apartments as a Senior Sales Manager responsible for key Global accounts. Gary now enjoys selling the benefits of this new industry to his clients, and is delighted to represent the industry. |
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Group Managing Director
BSI
Trevor joined 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 Committee. In April 2008 Trevor was appointed by the board as Group Managing Director. Trevor is a graduate in Hotel, Catering & Institutional Management and has held several senior positions within the hotel industry across operations, revenue management and sales. |
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Corporate Sales Director
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
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.
Prior to joining the CWT, Alison held various senior management positions within Travel Management Companies, as well as owning and running her own yacht charter company. |
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Category Leed Travel and Transport
HMRC
Pete Gleeson is the Catergory Lead for Travel and Transport for HMRC and is passionate about Travel and Meetings specifically; how we can do business more effectively while minimising our impact on the planet and improving productivity. In addition to Pete's responsibilities for Travel and Fleet he is heavily involved in developing HMRC's Sustainable approach across Procurement and the breadth of its activities. |
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Managing Director
Cereno
Jocelyn is currently the majority owner and M.D. of cereno (ISDN datacom Ltd.) a specialised audio, video and web systems integrator and collaboration consultancy. The company was founded in 2000 and has steadily built its position to be one of the leading players in the national market. cereno’s customer include many household names. cereno’s current interest is the broadening of its audio video and web and collaboration services to its corporate client base through a deeper understanding of effective human collaboration and organisational change as well as ongoing service support.
Jocelyn is a Chartered Engineer a member of the IET and also holds a Henley MBA. |
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Partner
Charles Russell LLP
Simon is a Partner at Charles Russell LLP, specialising in employment law. He initially qualified as a barrister and worked at the Criminal bar both prosecuting and defending, including acting for the Treasury Solicitors on director disqualification proceedings. Having retrained as a solicitor Simon now advises companies on every aspect of the employment relationship. |
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Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing
Concur
Michael Hilton co-founded Concur in 1993, and served as CEO until 1996. As Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Mr. Hilton oversees the global marketing organization for Concur. Mr. Hilton has more than 20 years of software development and senior management experience. His background includes leadership of the initial development efforts for ACT! for Windows, a leading contact and customer management software solution, as well as MacWrite Pro for the Macintosh. |
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Vice President & Managing Director
Egencia UK
Christophe Peymirat manages Egencia’s UK activities - a job he’s held since 2004, when Expedia Corporate Travel acquired World TM. His objective is to develop the right solutions for business travellers, using a combination of innovative technology and exceptional service.
Prior to 2004, Mr. Peymirat was part of the original Egencia team for several years, which Expedia Corporate Travel later acquired in France. Within this organization, Mr. Peymirat served initially as Director of Product Development, and later as Director of Large Accounts. |
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Procurement & Commercial Manager
Equiniti
Hannah Bodilly, a member of CIPS and in procurement for over 13 years, started out her career at the leading edge of procurement in the motor industry (Ford & Honda) and progressed through management consultancy with PwC to setting up a procurement department from scratch at E&J Gallo Winery. It was here she learnt the Travel category over the last 5 years. She is now at another Greenfield site, developing procurement for Equiniti. Outside work, she is frequently found on stage in amateur dramatics productions or competing in triathlons around the country! |
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Managing Director
Etap-On-Line
Pierre-Emmanuel Tetaz is Managing Director and co-founder of Etap-On-Line (Paris, London, Toronto), leading player in Europe for T&E management with the solution Ulysse Travel & Expenses since 1999. He benefits from a 16 years expertise in integrating ERP and financial systems and previously in strategy consultancy. Since 1997, he is specialized in travel & entertainment workflows optimization and on-demand services for all types of organizations. Mr Tetaz holds an ESSEC MBA. |
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Head of Sales UK
FCm Travel Solutions
Graeme Milne has been in the UK travel industry for the last 10 years working for both an airline and TMC. After 4 years with South African Airways In August 2003 Graeme moved to the corporate division of Flight Centre Ltd, Corporate Traveller, and was quickly promoted to Team Leader looking after a small team of 6 Business Development Managers. Graeme Became Head of Sales UK when Corporate Traveller and Britannic Travel joined forces to become FCm Travel Solutions in 2005. |
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Vice President Sustainable Development,
Finnair
Ihamäki acts as the spokesperson for environmental affairs at Finnair Group. Her responsibilities include ensuring that the environmental goals of the Group’s businesses are realised in such a way that Finnair develops as one of the leading airlines in environmental activities.
She is also responsible for the coordination of environmental strategy and emissions trade projects as well as for integrating environmental issues into Finnair's competitive strategy.
She was appointed as a member of IATA’s Committee on Environment in 2009.
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Director EMEA
GetThere
Jason Geall is responsible for GetThere's business across the EMEA region including marketing, sales and service. He joined in 2009 from being head of UK sales for Eurostar, and prior to that was national sales manager for Jobsite.co.uk, a leading Internet recruiting solution |
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Chairman & Chief Executive Guild of Travel Management Companies
Never one to be conventional Veronique has already introduced some new initiatives to the GTMC, including the formation of the GTMC 20/20, a forum for middle managers in business travel. He is also keen to drive forward the lobbying force of the GTMC with proactive meetings and discussion with government, opinion-formers, decision makers and the media.
Veronique’s day job is as joint chairman and CEO of The Appointment Group, which he founded with his partner John Gianquitto in 1988. The Group consists of four individual travel businesses, namely Travel by Appointment, Music by Appointment, Events by Appointment and Leisure by Appointment. |
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Corporate Sales Manager
Hillgate Travel
Andrew has held senior roles in the industry for 16 years and joined Hillgate Travel in 2001. He is responsible for Sales, Account Management, Marketing and PR. Andrew was previously Global Sales Manager for OAG and his expertise is the online market. Known for his forthright, no nonsense views, he has judged major industry awards and spoken at key industry events and represents Hillgate Travel at the GTMC. |
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Sales & Marketing Director
Hotelscene
Nick Hurrell joined Hotelscene in 2007 and was appointed to the Board in January 2008. He started his career in Corporate Travel with HRG (then Hogg Robinson Travel) and held various management positions including Director of Business Development.
Nick’s experience in dealing in with both UK and Multinational organisations has lead to a sound understanding of client needs – and he is well qualified to compare the abilities of traditional Travel Management Companies with the current trend towards more specialist corporate operators. |
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Client Management Director
HRG
Stewart Harvey was appointed to the HRG Executive Board as Client Management Director in September 2008. In his current role he has overall responsibility for multinational managed clients on a global basis reporting to HRG’s Chief Executive David Radcliffe.
His career in the travel industry began in 1975 when he joined Denholm Travel. In 1986, after 11 years with the company, Stewart moved to Britannic Travel where he remained until he took up an appointment as Operations Manager with HRG UK (then known as BTI UK) in Glasgow four years later. |
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Commercial Director
HRS - Hotel reservation Service
West moves to HRS.com, the fastest growing online hotel portal in the UK, from his role as Marketing Director at IS Solutions where he has worked for the last 13 years delivering internet strategies for corporates such as Eurostar, Forte, Granada, Sony, Toyota, Visa and Woolwich. West is highly experienced in both fast changing business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets.
West was one of the pioneers to champion internet travel. In 1996 West’s first internet client was Thomas Cook and he was instrumental in the primary launch of thomascook.com. Since then he has helped over 200 online businesses to grow their eBusiness models. |
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Procurement Manager
Hyder Consulting
Chris has over 20 years’ experience in travel and related industries which included working for a large travel management company, which has helped enormously in her current role. Chris Pullen is Head of Procurement for Hyder Consulting which is a multi-national advisory and design consultancy with particular specialisation in transport, utilities, property and environmental solutions. At Hyder, Chris was initially responsible for travel and car fleet and during the last 4 years has developed the corporate procurement strategy and is now establishing central supply database for supply chain management. Chris is a member of CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply), ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Operators) and ITM (Institute of Travel & Meetings), through which she passed the first pilot PDP (Certificate in Corporate Travel Management) course. |
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Managing Director
IC Management
IG Management’s particular expertise is in the development of ‘Responsible Business Travel’ practices; including environmental programmes, duty of care and traveller health / stress policies.
Bernard has almost 20 years travel industry experience and is a recognised industry expert and commentator, particularly in the field of travel related regulatory issues.
Prior to his recent executive board role as head of Industry Affairs and Strategic Development for American Express Business Travel Europe, he held a number of other senior management positions including Head of Global Sales for British Airways. |
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