Connect 2015 Workshop Presenters
Dave Terry
CO-FOUNDER AND COO, CHROME RIVER
As co-founder and COO of Chrome River, Dave Terry has a passion for user experience and clean, simple design. His firsthand experience comes from over 20 years of experience in the financial and practice management field for the professional services markets. With a background in application development for the legal market, Dave provides expertise both from a technology perspective as well as directing and driving market growth for Chrome River.
Previously he was vice president of global sales for over a decade at Thomson Elite, where he was responsible for leading the company's sales into a position of worldwide market dominance. Dave holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Texas and Stephen F. Austin State University. Dave will be a presenter for the 10 Ways to Ensure your Expense Policies are Airtight workshop.
Duane Futch
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, PARTNERSHIP TRAVEL CONSULTING
Duane Futch is the Executive Vice President of Partnership Travel Consulting and specializes in corporate travel, corporate aviation and government travel consulting. Mr. Futch holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Airline Economics from Florida Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the first class of “Global Leaders” at the University of Arkansas, Sam Walton College of Business. In addition, Mr. Futch holds an airline transport pilot certificate and has been flying corporate jets for over 37 years. During his tenure as Wal-Mart’s Director of Global Travel Division, the travel team created the first-ever U.S. point-of-sale and multi-currency transaction model to facilitate international financial settlement of air ticketing processes for which the team won several awards for global innovation. Duane will be a co- presenter for the Role of the Travel Manger Part 2 - Here Today, GoneTomorrow? workshop.
Anil Punyapu
VICE PRESIDENT OF ENTERPRISE SALES, CVENT
With over a decade of experience in the meetings industry, Anil Punyapu is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of Cvent's enterprise meetings solutions. Anil launched Cvent's Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) division, and combines technology expertise with deep knowledge of the meetings industry to continuously shape the development of the company's SMM product. He also leads the division's strategic marketing initiatives, sales processes and training programs. Under his leadership, Cvent helps some of the world's largest pharmaceutical, financial, consumer product and healthcare organizations centrally manage enterprise-wide meetings spend and streamline meetings processes. Anil will be a presenter for the Leveraging Technology to Acheive your Meeting & Event Goals workshop.
Kevin Carrillo
SR. DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIST
Kevin Carrillo is a member of the Corporate Marketing team and co-leads the Brand & Marketing Committee for Sabre's Young Professional Council (YPC). Kevin is responsible for message creation and rich media development to more consistently and effectively promote Sabre's ideas, innovations and solutions. Originally from New Mexico, Kevin graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in both Political Science & Sociology and was a member of the Bucknell Bison Division 1 wrestling Program. Kevin will be a presenter for the LinkedIn 2.0: Enhancing your personal brand within the world's largest online professional network workshop.
Twitter - @KevinLCarrillo
Michael Pape
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
PRODUCT MARKETING
Sabre Travel Network
Michael Pape serves as Managing Director of Global Product Marketing at Sabre Travel Network. Michael leverages his 25 years of Travel Industry experience when driving solutions to the marketplace. Michael currently leads marketing and technology teams that are responsible for developing innovative payment solutions. Michael also oversees a team that manages new business development and strategic partnerships. This gives Michael a full view of dynamic market conditions and emerging solution trends. Prior to his current role, Michael held positions in Financial Planning and Analysis, Product Development and Account Management. Michael holds a B.A. in Marketing. On the weekends, Michael works as a state certified Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician in his local community. Michael will be a presenter for the How to Go from Plastic to Painless with New Forms of Payment workshop.
Fred Bowen
MANAGING DIRECTOR, CORPORATE SOLUTIONS SALES & PARTNER PROGRAMS
Sabre Travel Network
Fred is a travel industry veteran with over 25 years of experience helping customers achieve their goals and objectives by leveraging SAAS based technologies and innovative internet solutions. In addition to his six years experience with Sabre, he has lead sales and business development efforts for both American Airlines and AOL. Today he manages the sales efforts for Sabre's Corporate Solutions portfolio in EMEA and North America, and is passionate about empowering customers with these industry leading capabilities. Fred will be a co - presenter for the Role of the Travel Manager Part 1 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? workshop.
Steve Gillon
PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER, SABRE TRAVEL NETWORK
Steve Gillon is currently a Product Marketing Manager with Sabre Travel Network®, the world's leading provider of travel software and commerce solutions. In his current role, Steve develops and promotes marketing, strategy, and business travel product initiatives serving Travel Management Companies and their clients to assist with optimizing their business travel programs. With Sabre Travel Network® since 2002, Steve has held a variety of global marketing, technical and strategy roles across multiple business units within the portfolio. Steve has been active in the corporate travel industry since 1991, working with both corporate travel agencies and corporate buyer programs delivering operations leadership, account management, technology deployment and strategic planning to help clients maximize the value of their travel program. Steve will be a presenter for the Moving the Masses - Automating Group and Crew Shopping and Booking and What You Don't Know Can Hurt You...and Your Travel Program workshops.
Ben Newell
DIRECTOR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT – TRIPCASE
Ben Newell is a 15-year veteran of Sabre with expertise in product management and mobile technologies. Over his career he's helped all of Sabre's business when they've intersected with mobile, including GetThere. These days he's focused on the success of TripCase as the Director of Product Management. Ben will be a presenter for the Today's Mobile Trends workshop and co-presenter for the 2015 Product Enhancements - Traveler Tools workshop.
Twitter @bennewelldallas
Rebecca Daniels
DIRECTOR, GLOBAL ACCOUNTS ASIA PACIFIC
Abacus International and Sabre Travel Network
Rebecca is the Director of Global Accounts for the Asia Pacific region representing both Abacus and Sabre GDS. Her team works with key leaders of our global TMC partners to enhance their business and operations using best and class technology. She has been based in Singapore for 2 years and spent the prior 8 years at HQ in Dallas, Texas. During her time with Sabre she has worked in a global role with Product Marketing and lead the re-launch of the GetThere reseller program in Latin America.
Prior to joining Sabre, Rebecca worked 7 years in Business Development and Marketing for global distributor network relationships at Lucent Technologies and Avaya in Latin America. She also earned an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. Rebecca will be a co - presenter for the Going Global - Balancing Local Expectations workshop.
Christian Cole
DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC ACCOUNTS, PRISM AVION
Christian J. Cole joined Sabre Travel Network in January 2015 as Director of Sales, Corporate Solutions Prism Avion Group. With more than 25 years of travel industry experience, Christian will be responsible for enhancing the travel management experience through strategic insight, cost savings initiatives and business intelligence solutions relating to airline contract performance.
Airline contracts today can be increasingly complex from new pricing models to joint venture and alliance agreements. Sorting through the complexity and creating winning agreements has never been more difficult. Gain the insight you need to maximize your air program savings with Prism Avion, one of the newest products to join the Corporate Solutions portfolio. The best kept secret in airline contracting, it goes beyond basic air program reporting, giving you the same dataset and insight as your airline partners.
Christian is based in the Dallas Fort Worth area and holds a Bachelor of Science from The University of North Texas. Christian will be a presenter for the How to Use Data to Take Your Air Program to New Heights and Best Practices for Optimizing Prism Avion workshops.
Barbara West
MANAGER, GETTHERE GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATIONS
Barbara West currently manages the GetThere Global Implementations team and has served as a Stakeholder for the Policy Rules Engine feature. She has been closely involved with Services team members to consult on and setup the policy rules engine for a variety of customer types in all regions. Barbara's career has spanned almost 25 years in the travel industry, including both agency and online travel tool experience. For the past 15 years at GetThere she has both implemented booking sites across the globe and managed the processes of the team with a focus on quality customer service. Barbara will be a presenter for the In or Out of Policy? Policy Rules Engine Basics, Tips & Tricks workshop.
Tracy Bordbar
PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER
Tracy Bordbar is a product marketing manager for Sabre Corporate Solutions. She manages the air content in GetThere, including access to carriers regionally and globally, user experience, ancillaries and workflow. In her time at Sabre, she has built successful working relationships with travel agencies, corporate customers and suppliers around the world to deliver access to air, car and rail content through the online and offline travel marketplace. Prior to Sabre, Tracy held a variety of marketing roles at American Greetings, Micrografx, Delrina and Contact Software. She owns a bachelor of science in business administration from the University of Tulsa. Tracy will be a co - presenter for the Going Global - Balancing Local Expectations workshop.
Cassandra Rollins
GENERAL MANAGER, SABRE HOTEL RFP & EMERGING PRODUCTS
Cassandra (Casi) Rollins is a dynamic travel technology professional with over 15 years in the travel industry and over a decade working directly with corporate customers and travel management companies. As General Manager of Sabre Hotel RFP and Corporate Services, Casi and her team provide technology and expertise to help corporate customers connect with hotels and chains to develop and manage their global hotel programs. In addition, she fosters TMC and supplier relationships that maximize corporate lead generation and guide hotels to the best solutions to generate demand. Cassandra will be a presenter for the Hotel Program Roundtable workshop.
Sara Leu
PARTNER MARKETING, TRIPCASE
Sara Leu works for the TripCase Partner Marketing team and is the Co-lead of the Young Professionals Council at Sabre. Sara will be a presenter for the Millennial Travelers - What Does it Really Mean? workshop. She can be reached at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Follow her on Twitter: @seleu.
Joe Bates
VICE PRESIDENT, RESEARCH AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Joe Bates joined the GBTA Foundation, the research and education arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), in early 2010. Joe is responsible for the entire research program at both GBTA and the GBTA Foundation. This includes directing the activities of sponsored studies, such as the annual GBTA BTI™ Outlook – Global Forecast, the quarterly GBTA BTI™ Outlook – United States and the semi-annual GBTA BTI™ Outlook – China. In addition, he oversees internal staff and external consultants who produce over 80 research studies annually.
Joe has almost 20 years of experience in the research industry and is an expert in both qualitative and quantitative research design, implementation, analysis, and consulting. He has spent more than 10 years in the non-profit sector and his background also includes research in the areas of political polling, healthcare, law and manufacturing. Joe will be a co-presenter for the Role of the Travel Manager Part 1 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? workshop.
Kristine Peacock
DIRECTOR OF PARTNER MARKETING, TRIPCASE
Kristine Peacock serves as Director of Partner Marketing for TripCase, a leading travel itinerary management product, at Sabre®. She is responsible for driving sales and adoption of TripCase and TripCase Corporate within Travel Management Companies and Corporations, as well as securing key partnerships that bring value to both Corporations and TripCase travelers.
Since joining Sabre in 2002, Ms. Peacock has held a series of management roles across the Sabre portfolio overseeing Global Site Management, Professional Services, and Product Marketing for GetThere®.
Prior to Sabre, Ms. Peacock spent nearly 4 years at WorldTravel, BTI, a leading Travel Management Company, where she served as manager of online technology implementations. Kristine will be the presenter for the Best Practices for Implementing TripCase Corporate workshop.