Charles McKee is a senior vice president at Sabre, heading up the full-service airline segment business. With a global team of commercial and product strategy professionals in Asia, Europe and the Americas, segment management activities focus on working with industry and across the business to deliver Sabre’s long term vision to meet customers’ needs for IT and distribution solutions.
Prior, Charlie was the founder of Markey Int’l, a privately-held business advisory and investment firm focused on the airline, hospitality and destination marketing sectors globally.
Charlie has held chief marketing and chief commercial roles at Air Canada, Malaysia Airlines, Delta Hotels and Radisson Hotels Americas and the Canadian Tourism Commission. Earlier in his career, he ran global distribution and sales at Virgin Atlantic Airways and oversaw its Asia-Pacific operations. He was commercial head of UK-based lastminute.com’s founding executive team.
Charlie has been on the marketing advisory boards of Star Alliance and OneWorld.
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