Speaker List

The summit is a great insight into the opportunities and issues facing the Asian travel market.
John Feenaghty, Flight Centre Ltd

Olivier Horps
VP Marketing Asia Pacific
Club Med

Olivier joined Club Med APAC headquarters early July 2007; he is in charge of marketing and sales for Asia Pacific. (More)

Greg Albertini
Regional VP of Revenue Strategy
APAC
Marriott International

Greg is a 24 year veteran of the hospitality industry with 15 years of Marriott Revenue Management experience. (More)

Grant Colquhoun
Director of Hotels APAC
Travelocity

Grant Colquhoun, director of hotels for Travelocity in Asia Pacific, is responsible for the Preferred Hotels program in the region. (More)

Fritz Demopoulos
CEO & Co-Founder
Qunar.com

Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Chinese internet and media industries for nearly a decade. (More)

Ric Shreves
Founding Partner
Water&Stone

Ric Shreves is one of the founding partners of water&stone, a web development company specializing in open source content management systems. (More)

Berthold Trenkel
President Asia Pacific
Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Berthold Trenkel is primarily responsible for driving continued progress worldwide in traveler and transaction services, those activities and operations related to traveler support and the handling of CWT client bookings on- and offline. (More)

Kien Trong Tran
Managing Director
iVivu.com

After graduating with a degree in medicine, Kien Trong Tran made a bold decision to enter the tourism industry (More)

Sherri Kimes
STB Distinguished Professor of Asian Hospitality Management
Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management

Sheryl E. Kimes is a Professor of Operations Management at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and holds the Distinguished Singapore Tourism... (More)

Hans Belle
Vice President and General Manager APAC
Sabre Travel Network

Hans Belle is Vice President and General Manager for Sabre Travel Network for the Asia Pacific region. (More)

Steve Sherlock
Managing Director
Oodles.com

In 1997, Steve Sherlock launched a travel agency specializing in German-speaking tours within Australia. (More)

William Chua
Vice President - Revenue Management and Distribution
Meritus Hotels and Resorts

William in his present role as Vice President of Revenue Management and Distribution (Meritus Hotels and Resorts) has managed to significantly improved the group´s electronic... (More)

Vivek Bhalla
Managing Director Asia-Pacific
The Rainmaker Group

David Chambat
VP Asia-Pacific
TVtrip.com

David Chambat is Vice-President, Asia Pacific of TVtrip.com , the leading hotel online video-guide. (More)

Daren Kang
Director of Agency Sales, Asia Pacific
InterContinental Hotels Group

Daren joined IHG in 2007 heading up the agency business segment for Asia Pacific, driving market share strategies and tactical activities for IHG regionally and globally. (More)

Michael Lee
VP Marketing Systems & Services
Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts

Michael Lee is vice President of Marketing Systems & Services for Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts. (More)

Joe Nguyen
Regional Manager SEA
Omniture

Joe Nguyen is Omniture´s Regional Manager for South East Asia. (More)

Edward Perry
Senior Director of eCommerce
WORLDHOTELS

During his tenure at WORLDHOTELS, Edward began in the corporate sales division, managing sales for the Northeastern USA. (More)

Cyril Ranque
VP, Asia Pacific Partner Services Group
Expedia

Cyril Ranque is responsible for managing the PSG Asia Pacific team and overseeing the relationships with airline, lodging and rental car supplier partners across the Asia Pacific region. (More)

Maunik Thacker
Executive Director of Revenue Management
Venetian Macau Ltd

Maunik joined Venetian Macau Ltd. in November 2006 to work on the opening of the 3000 suite Integrated Resort - The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel. (More)

Meraj Huda
Principal Consultant
forumline

Meraj Karim Huda is the founder and Principal Consultant of forumline Consulting. (More)

Ben George
Revenue Management Director, Asia
Hilton Hotels

Keith Timimi
Chairman
Qais Consulting

Keith has been working for blue chip clients in the internet & wireless, technology and direct marketing spaces for the last 15 years. (More)

Robert Rosenstein
President and Chief Operating Officer
Agoda´s

Robert Rosenstein is an e-commerce and online media veteran of 15 years.(More)

Maria Socorro Cotelo
Group Revenue and Standardization Manager
Waterfront Hotels & Casino

Maria is a Revenue Management officer working for a local chain hotel, handling four (4) first-class business hotel-properties and one (1) boutique hotel-property under the Waterfront Hotels and Casinos group. (More)

Ricky Ang
VP Sales and Marketing
Hotel Equatorial

Sameer Poonja
Vice President of Technology
Kiwi Collection's

Raised in a family of luxury tour operators, Sameer Poonja, Kiwi Collection's Vice President of Technology, was literally "born to do this."(More)

George Harb
Commercial Director, Asia
Travelport

George, based in Hong Kong, oversees the Asian SMO markets strategic sales; covering online markets, partnership initiatives as well as managing Asia Pacific Partner Marketing business in Media sales on Travelport services.(More)

Puneet Mahindroo
Corporate Director of Revenue Management & Global Distribution
Taj Hotels, Resorts & Palaces

In a career spanning 10 years in the hospitality industry Puneet Mahindroo has worked in various hotel and regional level roles in Revenue Management and Distribution. In his current role with Taj since 2005; Puneet has been responsible for implementation of a wide range of projects; ranging from Automated Revenue Management System, Revenue Academy, Pricing Reforms to the most recent Implementation of Taj's Next Generation Distribution Platform. (More)

Dan O’Sullivan
VP of Sales, EMEA
Translations.com

Dan O'Sullivan has been a senior member of the Translations.com executive team since the company's incorporation in 1999. (More)

Nathan Clapton
Senior Director Brand Distribution
Tripadvisor