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Michael Portillo was born in North London in 1953. His father, Luis, had come to Britain as a refugee at the end of the Spanish Civil War, and his mother, Cora, was brought up in Fife.
He graduated from Cambridge with a first class degree in history and within a year was working in the Conservative Research Department where he spent 3 years.
Michael Portillo held a number of Ministerial positions in Margaret Thatcher's government.
As a member of the Conservative Research Department he was responsible for briefing Margaret Thatcher before her press conferences during the General Election in 1979 . For the next two years he was special adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy. He worked for Kerr McGee Oil (UK) Ltd from 1981 - 1983. Michael returned to politics as a special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Nigel Lawson), and in December 1984 won the sear of Enfield Southgate, Michael represented the seat for thirteen years but was defeated in the 1997 Election.
In government he was a whip, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Social Security, Minister of State for Transport, Minister of State for Local Government and Inner Cities; and as a Cabinet Minister was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Employment, and Secretary of State for Defence. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1992.
After his 1997 electoral defeat, Michael returned to Kerr McGee as an adviser. Michael was re-elected to Parliament in a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in November 1999 and was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer February 2000 - September 2001.
Following the Conservatives’ election defeat in 2001, Michael contested the leadership of the party. He was unsuccessful, and decided to return to the backbenches. In November 2003 Michael announced that he would not seek re-election to the House of Commons at the next general election.
Since leaving politics, he has devoted himself to writing and broadcasting. He writes for the Sunday Times and is a regular on both BBC 1’s “This Week” programme and Radio 4’s “Moral Maze”. He has made documentaries on subjects as diverse as Richard Wagner, railways and the death penalty. In 2008 he chaired the judges of the Man Booker prize. |
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Global Travel Director
SERCO
Canadian born Margaret was relocated by Serco to the United Kingdom in 2002 in the role of Global Travel Director.
Margaret has over 30 years of experience in the travel industry, primarily in senior roles within business travel management. Margaret founded the North American trael solution aned was instrumental in developing the rest of the travel and events solutions globally.
She has a proven track record in offering innovative travel solutions while taking into account her clients’ travel policies. |
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Director of Travel Programme Optimisation and Co Founder
Bouda
Simone has a wealth of experience in the business travel industry having held various roles over the last 18 years, in operations, account management, sales and marketing at Travel Management Companies. She most recently held the position of Managing Director at Capita Business Travel where she was responsible for the strategy, sales and overall management of the company targeting both the public and private sector.
Having been appointed onto the Executive Board of the GTMC she chaired the Surface Transport Working Party and worked diligently with her peers on leading industry initiatives.
Simone has both national and global experience previously holding senior positions at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Rosenbluth International and HRG. |
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Director of Agency Sales
De Vere Hotels
Ian joined De Vere in 2007 and is responsible for the team managing all of De Vere’s intermediary relationships with TMCs, HBAs and event management companies. Prior to joining De Vere, Ian was at venue sourcing and event management company Zibrant for seven years as head of new business sales. He was elected to the board of ITM in 2010, taking on the role of director responsible for the regions where he hopes to make a number of changes to improve educational content regionally for ITM. |
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Director of Sales and Marketing
BCD Travel
Tony is responsible for corporate client acquisitions and managing re-tenders of existing key clients for BCD Travel, UK & Ireland. A veteran travel professional with over 30 years of industry experience, Tony has a career that has seen him progress from customer service roles through to senior positions in operational and sales management for major players including; Thomas Cook, Carlson Wagonlit, Hogg Robinson and Expedia, before joining BCD Travel in May 2008.
Away from the office, Tony has a young family and is a keen skier, golfer, and an avid West Ham FC supporter. |
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Senior Consultant
Severnside Consulting
At the start of his career, Chris worked in a number of high profile operations roles with both American Express and The Travel Company across multiple business sectors.
He then joined Citigroup and rose to the role of Senior Vice President, Global Lead for Travel Services, winning numerous internal awards for services delivered.
He launched Severnside Consulting in 2010 to provide his business travel expertise to multiple organisations. |
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Senior Partner
3 Sixty Sourcing
Chris Reynolds, senior partner and co-owner of the specialists consultancy company 3SIXTY Global has extensive experience in travel programme optimisation; TMC performance, selection and implementation; and travel procurement strategy and negotiation. He has over 20 years industry experience, and was previously a buyer for Siemens. His client portfolio includes companies from the banking, technology, insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail and public sectors. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply and former Board Director of the Institute of Travel & Meetings. |
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Director of Business Development, UK & Ireland
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 Business Development in January 2007. Her main responsibilities include leading the UK business development team towards the growth of the company, strengthening and supporting the company’s expanding global position as well as managing CWT UK’s Meetings & Events division, one of CWT’s key lines of business.
Alison has accrued over 15 years experience within the business travel industry. Prior to joining 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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Editor
The Business Travel Magazine
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! |
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Director
Opteva
Rachel has over 20 years’ travel industry experience. She has worked for a global TMC, running their largest European call centre and worked globally as a TMC account director for a global investment bank. In addition, she has worked as a travel manager for a global investment bank.
Rachel co-founded the operational travel consulting practice Opteva Limited in 2005 with her business partner Johanne Young. During her time with Opteva Rachel has managed many complex travel projects across a broad range of global businesses.
Given Rachel’s operational and technology background combined with her hands-on experience of project delivery in the online environment, she is well placed to provide delegates with an informative and action orientated conference session experience. |
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Director, UK and Ireland
HRS
Jon spent 13 years advising over 250 corporate clients on their Internet Strategy, specialising in self-service, one to one marketing and web analytics. In 1996 Jon’s first Internet client, Thomas Cook, asked “Do you think we’ll be able to sell holidays on the Internet?” The rest as they say is history. In 2009 Jon was approached by HRS to run their London office. With HRS being the pioneers of self-service hotel booking, in a mature travel market, this was an opportunity not to be missed for Jon, who has now recruited an almost completely new team and is rapidly growing the Leisure and Corporate Markets for HRS in the UK, Ireland, North America and India. Jon intends to revolutionise the Corporate Hotel Booking market with the introduction of easy to use self-service solutions, which give the booking capability to the travellers via the Internet, Mobile and Voice channels, whilst adhering strictly to corporate policy. |
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UK Travel & Fleet Manager
HSBC
Lee has responsibility for all UK originating travel for “The World’s Local Bank”, as well as owning the UK Expenses policy and management of HSBC’s 3,500 vehicle company car fleet. He has been in this role since December
2005 and with HSBC since March 1993. Lee will be on hand to chat with the delegates throughout TBTC and those who do can ask him about his unusual hobbies! |
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Head of Travel & Expenses
Airbus
Geoff is the Head of Travel and Expenses 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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Sales Director
FCm Travel Solutions |
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Industry & Fare Distribution Director
HRG
Tony Berry joined HRG in 1999 as Director of Product Management; was Operations Director, EMEA, and was appointed Industry and Fare Distribution Director in 2007.
His career in the travel industry started in 1979 when he joined Gulf Air, holding operational and sales roles in the UK and Middle East; followed by appointments with Amadeus in France and Hertz Europe in the UK and US.
In his current role Tony has responsibility for airfare distribution and supplier development and works with relevant trade bodies, lobby groups, regulators and industry influencers, to help shape the worldwide corporate travel industry. |
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Business Development Manager
Concur
Matt Bray currently works for Concur, the world’s leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services. In his capacity as Business Development Manager EMEA, Matt is responsible for aligning strategic commercial partners to the Concur travel and expense framework.
With over fifteen years experience in travel and expense, Matt has extensive industry knowledge having held senior positions throughout the card, TMC and technology sectors. |
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Head of Business Development EMEA
Omega World Travel |
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