Business Travel Executive, October/November 2020

PEOPLE of experience most recently as a strategic program manager for Travel Leaders Corporate These additions follow those of Mark Williams managing director Americas and Joe Currie director Americas who joined Nina Pinta in April and June respectively DigiTravel Consulting a managed travel consultancy has welcomed Greeley Koch as vice president consulting Koch has served as a vice president at hotel solutions Brazils competition authority the Administrative Council for Economic Defense CADE has given regulatory approval to the Joint Venture Agreement between Delta Air Lines and LATAM Airlines Group S A and its affiliates The JVA which signed in May 2020 was granted without conditions following an evaluation of free competition considerations and taking into account the unprecedented economic impact of COVID 19 on the airline industry The airlines have said they are going ahead with the agreement despite the slowdown in air travel and the news that LATAM has filed for bankruptcy protection Once all regulatory approvals are granted the JVA will connect the carriers route networks between North and South America Customers are already seeing a number of benefits including mutual frequent flyer mile accumulation and redemption codeshares on select routes shared terminals at hub airports and access to both airlines lounges n provider HRS and prior to that held the position of executive director of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives Travelport has appointed Jennifer Catto as chief marketing officer Most recently Catto held the role of CMO of Telaria a software platform Prior to that she was involved with Evolve Media a publisher of lifestyle content Corporate Travel Management North America has named Mary Ellen George Hess as executive vice president sales and marketing Hess had been head of North America 8 Business Travel Executive askBTE com October November 2020 for Tramada Systems a travel management platform Serko Limited has named Claudia Batten as board chair She had been serving as a member of the board Batten is a technology consultant and has been involved with several technology startups Extended Stay America has named David Clarkson as CFO He has been with the company since 2013 most recently as vice president of financial analysis and treasurer He also served as interim CFO from January to May 2018 Oyo Hotels of India has appointed eastern US operations head Kasra Moshkani to lead its US business division Prior to joining Oyo Moshkani worked for Uber Technologies Grain Partners Advisors and MyClean He also co founded the human resources startup HireBrite IN INDUSTRY NEWS BRAZIL REGULATORS GREENLIGHT DELTA AND LATAM JOINT VENTURE CORPORATE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT ACQUIRES TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT Corporate Travel Management Limited CTM an Australian travel management company has acquired Omaha based Travel and Transport Inc including its Radius Travel business a global network of corporate travel agencies in more than 100 countries The 2004 million deal creates what the companies call one of the worlds leading global mid market corporate travel managers with combined total transaction value in 2019 of 76 billion Travel and Transport will be rebranded to CTM and its leadership team will combine with CTM with Kevin OMalley as CEO North America Maureen Brady as COO Josh Weiss as CFO and Tim Fleming as president and integration lead Integration is underway and will happen quickly due to the current reduced customer activity