GlobalStar Travel Management launches new organization
GlobalStar Travel Management has launched its new organization with a newly formed Global Executive Team ensuring a solidly professional future for the GlobalStar organization. GlobalStar originated in 2001 as a partner network of independent TMCs whereby dedicated officers at the partners ran the day to day business. Nowadays GlobalStar has representation in over 55 countries with a consolidated annual turnover exceeding 5 Billion US Dollars.
GlobalStar advanced its organizational structure as per the first of March this year with a 300% increase in funding, the formation of a new dedicated 8 person executive team and a significantly increased operational commitment from its partners. Concurrently a new GlobalStar corporate identity for the company was created. For the coming year, the team is coordinating its efforts to broaden and enrich the quality of services and products available to partners and clients.
The team will be headed by Bob Morgan who will act as President initially and who becomes Executive Director - Supplier Relations. Bob has been working within the GlobalStar organization for 2 years and brings with him a wealth of business travel and GlobalStar experience. Bob will report to the Operating Committee which is represented by all four regions. Peter Klebanow for North America (Global Chairman), John Jansen for EMEA (Global Vice Chairman), Enrique Moreno for Latin America and Claire Gray for ASPAC. The primary role of the operating committee is to execute the strategy as set by the global board, through collaborative management at a daily level. Claire Gray said that the new team will formally be presented to the GlobalStar partners at the GlobalStar annual conference in Macau, 11-13 May this year. Claire: These exciting enhancements were clearly the next step for us and they will make a significant difference in the further development of this young and dynamic organization to become the best alternative to the global mega TMCs
New in the team is Steve Hartwell, based in the UK,who will take on the role of Executive Director - Sales initially, responsible for driving and developing Global Sales opportunities in conjunction with partners, whilst preparing to take over the President role in October this year.
Steve is vastly experienced in business travel & sales having spent a number of years with American Express working specifically on Global Accounts. He has been Managing Director of two independent business travel companies and more recently he has focused on his own consulting business assisting many corporate companies and agencies to embrace the changes that have impacted our industry.Werner Jansen will be taking responsibility for our Global Account
Management needs and who will be based in New York. Werner has a strong travel background having latterly been Travel Manager at Bear Stearns. Werner's primary role is to build upon our account management practices to create sophisticated multi-country solutions that are embraced by all partners and quantify measurable value to our customers. Technology is a critical part for moving GlobalStar forward and we are delighted that Danny Eldridge will be joining the team with specific responsibilities to fully develop our IT capabilities in managing these account management solutions namely, global data consolidation, content sourcing and multinational servicing. Danny's travel technology experience is second to none having undertaken a number of complex IT projects - more latterly with Agresso.
Joining the Global Executive Team is Mark van Iersel as Executive Director- Marketing. Mark van Iersel has been working for GlobalStar EMEA for a number of years and will remain based in Amsterdam. Mark's brief is to continue developing the brand and producing marketing collateral to support our business. Reena Mathew has been promoted to a new position of Partner Development & Communications/EMEA coordinator, based in Amsterdam and will take up her post later in the year. Reena will be supported by Werner Jansen in North America, Genoveva Nieto in Latin America and a new ASPAC coordinator that is still to be recruited.
It has always been our goal to hire the best and the brightest managers to run our organization and I am thrilled that our efforts in the marketplace, up to this point, has afforded us this new professional structure said Peter Klebanow, GlobalStars Worldwide Chairman
For a download of our new organization chart pls visit
http://www.globalstartravel.com/files/Org-chart-March-09-def.jpg
For additional information please contact:
Mark van Iersel, ED of Marketing at +31 6 2700 8037 or at press@globalstartravel.com
