Low Cost Airlines World Americas - list of speakers

Barry Biffle has served as our Chief Marketing Officer since February 2005. From 2003 to 2005, Biffle served as Managing Director of Marketing at US Airways, where he was responsible for advertising, direct marketing, the frequent flier program, US Airways Vacations and product development. Additionally, Biffle held other key positions in...

Helgi Már was appointed SVP of Marketing & Sales in May 2008. He joined Icelandair in 1999 as Manager Icelandair Holidays USA, later to become Sales Manager Western Region. In 2002 he moved to London to become Sales and Marketing Manager UK & Ireland and in 2004 to Paris to assume the position of General Manager Southern Europe. Helgi became...

James Callaghan is the Chief Technologist for WestJet Airlines. In this position he is responsible for technology strategy and direction for the corporation. During his more than 5 years at WestJet James has lead various Information Technology teams and has been instrumental in setting new architectural directions to evolve the company’s...

He was born in 1967, in Argentina and he is married with Jutta Kopp. They have 2 sons. Mr. Campiani has a Master of Science in Industrial Administration. (MBA) at Carnegie Mellon University (1991-1993) Areas of concentration: finance and international business. He obtained his degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at...

Luciano Campos joined HSBC's Latin America research team in August 2009 as an equity research analyst focused on the Brazilian healthcare and education sectors. In early 2011, Luciano started to cover the transportation and logistics sectors, which include the Brazilian airlines. Luciano began his sell-side research career at Bear Stearns in New...

José Mario Caprioli, graduated in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas). He specialized in Public Transport Management at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and Capital Markets at Columbia University in New York. He was the founder of TRIP Linhas Aereas, the largest regional airline company in South...

As Head of International Flights within Latin America at LAN Airlines, Nicolas is responsible of a +1 Billion revenue business operating in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and USA (south). Before joining LAN Airlines, Nicolas worked as an Associate Principal at McKinsey and Company. At that role he...

Mr. Grajales joined Aaerovías del Contienete Americano S.A., Avianca on May 20, 2002 as CFO. He has a B.S. in Business Administration with an M.S. in finance from Baltimore University. He started his professional career as Treasurer for Gillette Colombia in 1992 and joined Baxter Pharmaceutical as CFO in 1995 and acted also as Marketing Director...

An accomplished senior manager with Consulting, Large Global Program Management & Delivery, Account Management and Techno Functional experience of about 19 years. Experience managing transformational programs, portfolio of multiple large scale, high value programs with integration across several functional areas. Hands on experience in process...

Martín Khatib assumed in 2010 the position of Chief Commercial Officer of Ceicom, an Indra Company. He is responsible for global sales and marketing, and handles the whole execution of the commercial strategy. He joined Ceicom in 1998, focusing his activities on the airline industry. Since that moment, he has been expanded and developed his...

Pete McGlade’s career has evolved from management trainee to executive leadership. Although born in Newry, Co. Down, Ireland, Mr. McGlade grew up in New York City and Yonkers, New York. After earning a BS in General Management from Purdue University in 1975, Mr. McGlade worked as a supervisor in a cheese packaging plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin. ...

Rahul Panchmatia has been working in the airlines IT industry for nearly 20 years in the area of passenger services, with a focus on reservations and ticketing. As Assistant Vice-President of Hexaware’s Travel vertical, Rahul has provided functional and IT-based technical solutions in E-Ticketing and more recently in the Electronic Miscellaneous ...

Widely acknowledged as the most influential analyst in his sector – growth airlines – Jim Parker came to Raymond James in May 2000. Previously, he was a managing director at The Robinson Humphrey Company, where he was an analyst for 31 years. Mr. Parker has arguably done more than any other Wall Street analyst to define the investment thesis for ...

Diego Quesada is the E-Business Director for Copa Airlines, based in Panama City, Panama. Copa Airlines offers flights to 63 destinations in 29 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean through its Hub of the Americas in Panama, including service to seven destinations in the U.S. Mr. Quesada, an airline executive with over...

Mr Rhoads earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University majoring in Economics and Latin American Studies and his Global MBA from Thunderbyrd University and the ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey). Nicolás Rhoads was born in Mexico City, and has occupied several positions within Aeroméxico in the past...

John Rodgerson is Azul's Chief Financial Officer overseeing the areas of Financial Planning & Analysis, Treasury, and Accounting. Mr. Rodgerson worked on the original business plan for Azul with David Neeleman and was one of the founding members of the team. Prior to joining Azul Mr. Rodgerson was the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis...

Marc Rosenberg retired as Air Canada’s VP Sales and Product Distribution. Marc was Pres. & CEO Galileo Canada & served as Chairman of the Board, Galileo Canada & AC Vacations & as a Director on the board of ARC, Apollo Travel Services, Galileo International, & Galileo Japan. He was also a member of the Star Alliance Executive Sales Committee & the ...

Guillermo Rospigliosi has 15 years of experience in the financial services industry and the areas of technology, e-commerce and new channels. As Managing Director of CyberSource for Latin America and the Caribbean, Guillermo is responsible for developing the strategy of CyberSource in the region, working with merchants, partners and acquirers to...

Daniel Shurz joined Frontier Airlines in June 2009 as Vice President of Strategy and Planning. In November of 2009, following Frontier’s acquisition by Republic Airways Holdings, Inc., he was named vice president of Strategy and Planning for Republic, with responsibility for network planning and scheduling, alliances and distribution for the...

Ms. Turner is a senior executive and Global leader with 25 years of subject-matter expertise in BPO, ITO and KPO solutions across multiple vertical disciplines. She leads business development for WNS largest vertical, Travel and Transportation. She is an expert in all aspects of the domain including industry specific...