Elizabeth is a corporate travel professional with a background in leisure and business travel. Elizabeth joined Inmarsat in The Hague in 2014. In her role as Global Travel Risk Advisor she drafted and introduced the companies travel safety policy and is overseeing its application by internal and external parties. For travel to high risk destinations she acts as the central person between traveller, coordinators, destination security, risk management and insurance companies. She is responsible for coordinating incident response activities.

In her spare time she enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking as well as studying cultures and languages.

Mohamed is an inspirational and innovative IT Infrastructure leader with exceptional qualities and commitment for solving challenging problems. He is fascinated about championing innovative ideas, encouraging new ways of looking at problems, processes and solutions to improve business and user experience.

He has over 25 years of experience working at Carlson Wagonlit Travel on a global scale in demanding environments requiring the highest quality solutions. Has inherent understanding of the different cultures and processes gained within the international business environment.

Outside of work, when he’s not catching up on the latest technology innovations and trends, Mohamed spends time on fitness, photography and indulging his passion for cooking (Mediterranean).

Mohamed is a graduate of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Informatics and Technology.

Christina joined Falck Global Assistance in 2011. Prior to that she held various positons in Europaeiske ERV (part of Europäische Reiseversicherung AG) such as Crisis Management Advisor and Key Account Manager.

She has more than 20 years of experience within business travel and account management, including advice on emergency response, medical risk and crisis management solutions.

For the past 10 years, Christina has primarily engaged with large, international B2B customers within various industries, e.g. engineering, manufacturing, aviation and telecommunications.

Tim is Senior Product Owner at Booking.com where he is responsible for leading product development for the business’s Booking.com for Business division. Bringing over 10 years’ experience in online product development, Tim oversees development teams focused on rapid innovation.

Prior to joining Booking.com, Tim served as Product Manager for Hyves.nl / Telegraaf Media Group for over two years, where he was responsible for defining product strategy and specifications as well as analysing results for smarter solutions and products tailored for maximum customer impact.

Earlier in his career, Tim was a Consultant at Jungle Minds where we worked to actively help clients optimise for improved business and communication outcomes leveraging digital strategies and user experience projects.

Tim studied Business Communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Matthieu is Senior Director of Global Sales at Egencia. With 10 years’ experience in the corporate travel industry, he is responsible for driving business success at Egencia.

His focus is providing top-notch travel management for companies with operations in several countries. Having managed Egencia business in Switzerland, he has a broad view of corporate travel in Europe.

Jason joined Traveldoo in 2015 as Senior European Sales Manager, responsible for driving the new business strategy in the travel and expense market.

Jason has over 10 years’ experience specialising in SaaS and software sales. Prior to Traveldoo, Jason worked for a number of e-learning software editors and logistics IT solutions providers in the US, Japan and France.

Born in the USA, Jason holds a Masters in Marketing from HEC Paris and a BA (hons) communications from Bowling Green State University.

With more than 10 years of experience building mutually beneficial relationships with some of the biggest names in business, Thomas has become an expert in the strategic deployment of corporate travel management and expense solutions to blue chip companies. After successfully growing and strengthening corporate relationships and business development in the Benelux region for Amadeus IT Group, he now has responsibility for driving and executive commercial strategy for Amadeus in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In addition to coordinating the commercial activities across the region, Thomas is also responsible for personally establishing direct relationships with multinational corporations that are seeking to reduce complexity, save on indirect and direct travel costs and deliver a user experience that’s fit for the 21st century and the high expectations of Millennials.

A New Product Development and innovation specialist who has delivered market-leading customer propositions and spin-off businesses. Chris has worked for small and large organisations across multiple diverse sectors in both a B2C and B2B worlds. These industries include Financial Services, Automotive, Telecoms, Gaming and, of course, Travel.

Michael is Senior Director Sales France & Benelux for the Lufthansa Group. Being a Swiss citizen, Michael moved from Zurich to Paris in 2015, initially representing SWISS in France & Benelux and assumed the current position for the Lufthansa Group in September 2016.

He started his airline career at Singapore Airlines in Zurich as Head of Corporate Sales. Michael joined SWISS thereafter and gathered experience as a Manager in Network Planning and Head of Leisure Sales Switzerland.

Before becoming an airliner, Michael studied Communication Sciences and Economics at the University of Zurich.

He is married and father of two daughters.

As Global Head of Business Travel at Airbnb, David is responsible for the strategic direction, execution and operation of the company's rapidly accelerating Business Travel vertical. With twenty years of experience, David is focused on revolutionizing the way business travels by championing the needs of those that have to travel. At Airbnb, his responsibilities include working with a cross-functional team from Sales, Client Management, Operations, Marketing, Product, Analytics, Finance and Engineering. 

Prior to Airbnb, David established Travel Leaders Corporate. He began his career in sales at American Airlines, eventually leading international sales and marketing efforts. 

Above all else, David is a father to three independent-minded daughters, who keep him grounded and seeing the world through a very different lens.

Jan joined AIG in July 2013; he serves as Global Accommodation Manager based in London managing the company’s Global Accommodation Programmes for Hotels, Aparthotels and Serviced Apartments comprising sourcing, negotiation and implementation of the programs.

With 26 years of senior-level and entrepreneurial career experience in the hospitality and travel industries, London-based Jan Jacobsen offers a wealth of expertise in sourcing, procurement, sales & marketing and revenue opportunities.

Prior to moving in to the role of a corporate buyer in 2010, he was Regional Director for the European marketplace for a US based hotel group. Among other positions, he has also been Director of Sales & Marketing for several London properties.

Jan’s role is to establish mutually beneficial relationships with accommodation providers globally, to ensure AIG has quality accommodation for their travellers that meet all of the company’s needs, whilst making sure rates are competitive to manage expenses.

Jan’s mandate: “Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, and how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark.”

Adam’s early career was in business and leisure travel for American Express and Trailfinders. He then joined Seaforths Travel in 1998, which went on to become part of the ATPI Group. 

Adam has been part of the ATPI Group since 2002 and has played a key role in its expansion and reputation of the Group internationally.

Formerly group sales and marketing director, Adam has recently taken on the newly created position as managing director for the combined ATPI and Griffin operation in the UK. He is also a board director of the Institute of Travel & Meetings (ITM) UK & Ireland.

Arnaud is Vice President of Global Accounts and Emerging Markets at Egencia. He oversees sales and business development for Egencia globally and is responsible for customer relationships with the company’s multi-national client base.

A veteran of Egencia, Arnaud joined the start up in 2001 and has been key to its success ever since, working in areas ranging from Marketing to Account Management and Implementation. 

Jon is the EMEA Regional Lead for strategic and operational leadership for Airbnb Business Travel. He has a diverse professional background including financial and operational planning, sales leadership, and business development.

In his current role, he focuses on driving change in the business travel space by focusing on productive more efficient business travel. Prior to Airbnb he was the head of corporate and operational FP&A for Airbnb and led operational business management and financial strategy at Netflix across various divisions. 

Barbara graduated in Tourism and Travel management from International University Bad Honnef. After graduation she started working at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group in the Area Sales Office Central Europe. First responsible for placing MICE requests for European clients worldwide, she switched to Corporate Sales responsible for RFPs and worldwide contact for clients like BMW, Roland Berger and Osram. Since January 2016 Barbara is working for conichi, where she first worked in the Hotel Sales Department being responsible for the German market and now taking care of corporate clients and projects in the same region.

Nour is a Syrian entrepreneur and hotelier with 14+ years of experience in the hospitality & business travel sector working for international hotel chains including Starwood Hotels & IHG. Some of his clients in previous roles include Apple, Mars, WPP, AP Moller Maersk, Mondelez International and Moody’s to name few.

Nour is revolutionising the whole MICE sector with Wizme, the next generation venue booking platform for meetings and events, driven by his passion to make all stakeholders’ life easier with technology (Planners, Travel Managers, Agencies & Hotels).

Sasha joined Ingenico ePayments in September 2016 as Director of Fraud. Sasha has spent more than 10 years working in cyber security, fraud prevention, infrastructure, privacy and compliance within international eCommerce. His expertise spans across the travel, retail, pharmaceutical and technology industries.

Sasha strongly believes that trust is the cornerstone of FinTech and being able to articulate a pragmatic and efficient cyber security and fraud prevention strategy is a key competitive differentiator. Because of this, his focus is on building the most data and performance driven fraud prevention platform, with the best possible UX for both Ingenico ePayments’ merchants and their consumers. Prior to joining Ingenico ePayments, Shasha worked for Booking.com.

He is a French native and has lived in the Netherlands for the last four years.

Rajaa is the business sales general manager for Eurostar. She is responsible of business sales which includes the account management strategy for corporate and TMC on Eurostar core markets (France, UK and Belgium) and on new markets Rotterdam and Amsterdam planned next year. Rajaa has been working 15 years for Eurostar and mainly on leading sales strategy and team over the last past 10 years. She has developed some keys achievements for Eurostar like the strategy and implementation of Pan European Eurostar corporate offer and integrating the TMC strategy into her team management for more efficiency on business sales expertise. She is now in charge on developing a dedicated corporate offer for the new markets Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

Michael is a German tech entrepreneur. Whilst at college he co-founded Wimdu and thereby dived early-on into the travel space. Michael then spent a couple of years in the Silicon Valley to build the operations for Homejoy, a Google-backed tech marketplace. 

In August 2015 Michael founded Comtravo, based in Berlin it is changing the way business travel is booked.

Michael graduated from WHU – Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science and Kellog School of Management.

Friso Schmid is co-founder and the business strategist of Keezel. Keezel is a portable device that protects people on WiFi networks. He started his career as an IT consultant at Capgemini. He went on to join a government-contract consulting firm where he met and worked with his future co-founder Aike Müller. Friso has worked for over 10 years in IT, startups and online marketing. Friso and Aike rejoined in 2013 to work on the early version of Keezel.

Dominic joined Takeda in October 2015 as a Global Category Manager and is a member of the team that purchases the group’s global travel and meetings and events services. Before joining Takeda he acted as Managing Director for the Zurich office of the MCI Group. Dominic Short was in charge of leading his team to design and deliver inspiring events, meetings and conferences for both the private and the public sector. In this role, he also helps regional and international enterprises and associations to launch new products, build brand loyalty, reach new markets and reward top performance.

Dominic, born 1971 in London/England, originates from the airline industry, having served Swissair Zurich as of 1989 and for more than a dozen years. First he completed a 2-year apprenticeship, then he mastered as a Sales Agent, and finally he was Key Account Manager in charge of BTI Kuoni. At that time, BTI was Swissair’s main distribution partner with an annual sales volume of CHF 550 million. In 2001, he became General Manager of the new Zurich event location Toni Molkerei, a fashionable venue for corporate events, theatre and art. Late 2004, he moved as Director Business Development to ICLP, the leading global customer loyalty provider, and in 2008, he joined AirPlus as Global Account Manager based in Zurich and Frankfurt, Germany. AirPlus, part of the Lufthansa Group, offers global travel payment programs. From 2011 until 2013 Dominic Short was CEO of traXess in Zurich, a business travel consulting agency, offering online booking tools and global business travel data consolidation.

 Samantha is an information law attorney who specializes in advising businesses and government institutions on compliance with privacy, data protection, information security, confidentiality, and freedom of information laws.  Over the last five years she has focused her expertise on implementing privacy programs for global organizations aligned to the corporate strategy.  

Samantha currently holds the position of Global Privacy Officer at Carlson Wagonlit Travel.  Prior to that, Samantha held positions at Colt Technology Services Plc and Linklaters LLP.

Samantha presents on data privacy with a focus on the intersection between privacy and technology.  She is currently a guest lecturer for the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Cybersecurity and Privacy Program for professionals.  

Samantha holds an LLB (Hons) in European Languages and Law from the University of the West of England.

A Labour Member of Parliament from 1997-2017 Gisela served in the Blair government as a Health Minister before spending 15 months helping draft a European Constitution. Most of her subsequent  parliamentary career focused on International Affairs, Defence and Security.  In 2015 she was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Intelligence and Security Committee which oversees M15, M16 and GCHQ.

Gisela is a founding member of the Henry Jackson Society. She chaired the Vote Leave campaign and now heads up Change Britain, a cross party organisation committed to working on the Brexit deal. 

Merel is a Category Procurement Specialist, responsible for global mobility. Merel joined FrieslandCampina in 2013.

In her role as Category Procurement Specialist she is responsible for the purchasing of all travel related services and tools. She likes to think outside of the box and strive for a future proof travel program. FrieslandCampina is implementing a new global travel program currently.

Before joining FrieslandCampina, Merel worked in the hotel industry, so knows the travel world quite well.

Merel studied International hospitality management, which she graduated from in 2012. 

Remco’s extensive experience in the travel industry spans 25 years.

He joined FCM in 2010 and heads up operations, as well as sales and account management for the Netherlands. His career prior to joining FCM includes 10 years as Global Account Manager for a US-headquartered multi-national TMC.

In addition he has held various local, regional and global account management positions for some the largest Dutch companies.

Currently, Daniel is focused on bringing Uber for Business #U4B to market in mainland Europe.

With more than 10 years of experience building mutually beneficial relationships with some of the biggest names in business, Thomas has become an expert in the strategic deployment of corporate travel management and expense solutions to blue chip companies. After successfully growing and strengthening corporate relationships and business development in the Benelux region for Amadeus IT Group, he now has responsibility for driving and executive commercial strategy for Amadeus in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In addition to coordinating the commercial activities across the region, Thomas is also responsible for personally establishing direct relationships with multinational corporations that are seeking to reduce complexity, save on indirect and direct travel costs and deliver a user experience that’s fit for the 21st century and the high expectations of Millennials.

Jason joined Traveldoo in 2015 as Senior European Sales Manager, responsible for driving the new business strategy in the travel and expense market.

Jason has over 10 years’ experience specialising in SaaS and software sales. Prior to Traveldoo, Jason worked for a number of e-learning software editors and logistics IT solutions providers in the US, Japan and France.

Born in the USA, Jason holds a Masters in Marketing from HEC Paris and a BA (hons) communications from Bowling Green State University.

Luba has been with the Motel One family after graduating from Stenden University in Leeuwarden with a bachelor in International Hospitality. During her studies she gained international experience in South Africa and Bali, broadening her knowledge in the field of Lodge management and Spa & Health management. With over 5 years of hospitality she currently holds the position of Junior Sales Manager at Motel One Amsterdam, where she aims to communicate her love for hospitality. She likes to travel, explore new cultures and meet new people.

AirPlus is a leading international provider of solutions for the day-to-day management of business travel. Over 49,000 corporate customers count on AirPlus for the payment and analysis of their business trip costs. Products and services are marketed worldwide under the AirPlus International brand. More information is available at www.airplus.com.