ALL-STAR AVIATION SPEAKERS

Máire P. Walsh is the SVP of Digital Technologies at Enterprise Ireland—the venture capital and trade arm of the Irish government. In 2019, PitchBook ranked Enterprise Ireland as the number one seed stage investor in Europe and number two globally. In her role, she oversees the global team...

Carsten Spohr, born on 16 December 1966 in Wanne-Eickel, has been Chairmanof the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG since 1 May 2014. He managesthe Lufthansa Group with the business segments NetworkAirlines, Eurowings andAviation Services with around 135,000 employees worldwide.After...

Joanna Geraghty is President & Chief Operating Officer of JetBlue, responsible for JetBlue’s operations and commercial performance including network, brand and marketing and revenue management.Geraghty’s focus is on delivering a leading customer service experience, enhancing operational and...

As Chief Executive Officer of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Pieter Elbers aspires to make KLM the most customer centric, efficient and innovative airline of Europe. His leadership style thereto is characterized by the conviction that the management of a company is a continuous balancing act between...

During his time as CEO, Heathrow has consistently improved service levels for passengers, while reducing costs, and it is now rated one of the best airports in the world. John has championed a third runway at Heathrow, building cross party and national support. In 2017 he launched Heathrow 2.0, a...

Johan Lundgren has spent his entire career in the travel industry working his way up through various roles to become most recently the Group Deputy CEO of Tui AG. Johan was also the CEO of the Mainstream Tourism business of the TUI Group (formed from the merger of TUI Travel PLC and TUI AG) where...

Gloria joined the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in August 2017,following a varied career in Travel & Tourism. WTTC is the body thatrepresents the global travel & tourism private sector worldwide. This sectorthat generates 10.4% of GDP and employs more than 300 million people.Her ...

Alexandre de Juniac became the seventh person to lead the International Air Transport Association (IATA) when he took on the role of Director General and CEO from 1 September 2016.De Juniac has almost three decades of experience in both the private and public sectors. This includes senior positions ...

Paul Griffiths is Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Airports, with the responsibility for the operation and development of Dubai International (DXB) – the world’s busiest airport for international passengers, as well as Dubai World Central (DWC). Paul joined Dubai Airports as its first CEO in...

József Váradi is the founder and CEO of Wizz Air, one of Europe’s fastest growing airlines and the leading low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe. The company’s low-cost leader strategy has transformed the airline from being one of the many start-ups in 2004 to one of the major European...

Dirk Anne (Dick) Benschop is President & CEO of Royal Schiphol Group, Non- executive member of the Board of Directors of Brisbane Airport Corporation PTY Ltd and Non-executive member of the Board of Groupe ADP (Aéroports de Paris). He joined Schiphol Group in May 2018 from Royal Dutch Shell...

"Karen was appointed as CEO of airasia.com in December 2019, responsible for transforming AirAsia into the fastest-growing travel tech and lifestyle platform in ASEAN that offers a frictionless and personalized experience to consumers across discovery, ticketing, activities, hotel booking and...

Daniel Riefer is an Associate Partner and aviation expert at McKinsey & Company, based in Munich, Germany. He focuses on operations and sustainability, and is a Platform Fellow with the World Economic Forum, supporting the Clean Skies for Tomorrow coalition.Daniel started his career at...

Cormac Barry joined CarTrawler as Chief Executive Officer in April 2018. Prior to this, he held the position of CEO for 7 years at Sportsbet, the Australian division of Paddy Power Betfair. A veteran of the online gambling industry for 15-plus years, Cormac was part of the team that set up...

Eash Sundaram serves as JetBlue’s Executive Vice President, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, and the Chair of JetBlue Technology Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of JetBlue Airways. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Team and responsible for technologies, digital and innovation...

Frank Meyer Chief Digital Officer Etihad Aviation GroupFrank Meyer is Etihad Aviation Group’s Chief Digital Officer – a position he has held since September 2019.Frank previously held the position of Head of Innovation & Transformation with Emirates Group.Prior to this, he was Group Chief...

Felix Antelo is Business Administrator of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Argentina and has more than 19 years of experience in the aeronautical industry, living and working in the most important countries of Latin America. He currently serves as President and CEO of Viva Air Group, the...

Mehmet T. Nane became CEO of Pegasus Airlines in March 2016. Before that he served as CEO of CarrefourSA between 2013-2016, CEO of Teknosa between 2005-2013, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Teknosa between 2000 and 2005. After holding various managerial positions at the Türkiye Emlak...

Mr. Martin Gauss serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Air Baltic Corporation AS (airBaltic), the Latvian airline, since November 2011. Under the leadership of Martin Gauss, airBaltic has been successfully restructured and reached sustainable profitability.  The...

As President, Global Aviation for Shell, Anna Mascolo is responsible for Shell's global sales of fuels and lubricants to the Aviation industry.  With one of the most extensive refuelling networks in the world supplying fuel, lubricants and sustainable solutions in over 60 countries, Shell...

Jeff Martin joined WestJet in September 2018 as Chief Operating Officer (COO). As COO, Jeff is responsible for daily operations to include WestJet's Flight Operations (including the Operational Control Centre), Guest Experience (Contact Centre and Inflight), Airports, Technical (Maintenance)...

Maurice Jenkins functions as the principal advisor to the Aviation Director on all matters related to information management and information technology. He has full strategic and tactical responsibility for the direction, planning, creation and operation of the Aviation Department’s information...

‘Suhail has over 25 years of aviation and enterprise technology leadership experience at major international airlines and hub airports, through which he has developed an in-depth understanding of business across the transportation value chain, spanning Planning, Operations, Customer...

Catherine Luelo was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in August 2017, with overall responsibility for the Information Technology Systems supporting and enabling Air Canada's business. Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada by fleet size and...

Senior Vice President and CIO at Korean Air responsible for Global IT Strategy, Planning and Operation that includes, Development, Security, Analytics, Innovation and Standardization along with the daily execution of the entire Operations Systems. Prior to joining Korean Air, Kenneth was head of...

Raj has more than 25 years of experience in the innovation and information technology sectors, asa strategist, leader, VC, and advisor.Currently, Raj is Managing Director and Head of Investing at JetBlue Technology Ventures, thecorporate venture capital arm of JetBlue Airways Corp.Previously, he...

Miri Danai is the CEO at Cockpit Innovation hub. Cockpit is the first airline industry venture arm in the world, with the mission to enhance innovation among its partners and invest in entrepreneurs with disruptive technologies in travel, aviation and aerospace. Cockpit is a partnership of EL AL...

“Duncan Bureau is the Senior Vice President Sales and Distribution at Etihad Aviation Group. His role is instrumental in driving the group’s commercial strategy globally. Duncan Bureau, a well-known and respected figure in the aviation industry, joined the airline with more than 25 years’...

George Wang is Senior Vice President Information Technology of Singapore Airlines. He is responsible for driving the Company’s IT and Digital strategy to make Singapore Airlines the leading digital airline in the world. George also oversees Singapore Airlines’ newly established Digital Innovation...

Paul Smitton was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Asia Miles Limited in July 2018. He is responsible for managing Asia’s leading travel and lifestyle rewards programme, which has a portfolio of over 11 million members and more than 700 business partners worldwide.Paul has worked in loyalty for...

Charlotte Svensson has a broad background and experience in various fields when it comes to the digitalization and tech area. During the past couple of years, Charlotte has managed to implement a number of innovative and transformative initiatives, such as creating a new digital business...

I’m a passionate computer science engineer and PRINCE2 practitioner certified professional with a strong focus on human-machine interaction. I strongly believe project management discipline allows humans to materialize their dreams by providing a methodic way of working.I have experience in working ...

Amy Burr is the Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships at JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV). Her role is to build an ecosystem of partners and deployment opportunities for the many technologies of JTV’s portfolio companies. Amy has been a leader in creating, sourcing and implementing...

Karel Bockstael is VP & Sustainability Lead at KLM since December 2019. From this corporate position his team oversees the sustainability strategy and -ambitions of KLM, in close connection with all divisions involved.  His network is developed from a 30 year career at senior management...

After a decade working in marketing communications in London, in 1992 Patrick joined Emirates in Dubai and has been responsible for shaping the at-seat customer experience. He created Emirates’ “ice” inflight entertainment & communications product, winning the Skytrax Best in world award for...

With more than 30 years at Southwest Airlines, Lisa has been responsible for creating, developing, and leading various Teams within the Company, including the newly formed Social Business Team in 2014, responsible for the social and digital evolution across Southwest Airlines and the launch of...

Mike Malik is the Chief Marketing Officer for Cirium and joined the company in 2018. He rebranded the company from FlightGlobal and brought together other brands the company had acquired in the last decade under one umbrella brand.  Mike has been in the airline and aviation industry throughout his...

Robert joined from McKinsey & Company where he was a partner and leader in the Airline practice. Over the last 11 years, Robert has assisted airline clients aroundthe world on a range of strategy, revenue, commercial and operational issues. Prior to McKinsey, Robert worked for Delta Air Lines...

Chiara has been working in the travel and payments industry for the past 20 years and is currently the Vice President Market Development Travel, within the Enterprise Partnership Unit at Mastercard, focusing on Travel B2B propositions and industry strategy.She previously worked as the Head of...

Kai Ling Ting leads innovation at Etihad Aviation Group, with a strategic focus on organisational capability development and culture change, accelerated innovation delivery and external partnerships. In her current role, she has conceptualised, designed and delivered Etihad’s innovation lab which...

Lennart Dobravsky is the Director of Research & Intelligence at the Lufthansa Innovation Hub – the digital transformation spearhead of the world's largest aviation corporation Lufthansa Group. In this role, he and his team engage in state-of-the-art market research and trend analysis of...

Julio Toro was appointed Chief Information Officer of Copa Airlines in 2015.  In this role, Julio is responsible for leading the technology strategy of the company, including the design, planning, implementation, and operation of information technology that support Copa’s...

Alison Taylor is Chief Customer Officer at American Airlines. She serves as the voice of thecustomer and works to create a secure, comfortable and welcoming environment for ourcustomers, to deliver unique and exceptional experiences at each step of the customer journey.Under her care, American is...

Sébastien Couturier joined Groupe ADP (Aéroports de Paris), having graduated in economics from the Sorbonne and having received an Master Degree in air transport from the Institut du Transport Aérien in Aix-en-Provence. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility in operational...

Harald holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University in Darmstadt / Germany.In 1993, Harald started his professional career with Roland Berger, working as a strategy consultant for airlines, airports and railroad operators. He joined Lufthansa Passenger Airlines in 1999 as...

Guy Johnson is the co-anchor of "Bloomberg Markets: European Open" on Bloomberg Television, covering top business, economic and market-moving stories from around the world. He is based in London.  Johnson brings nearly two decades of experience as a top financial broadcast...

Tal Kalderon has been in the content and media field for more than 25 years.  He began as a television producer and director and in 2006 was invited to be EL AL’s consultant for upgrading the user experience in the entertainment systems. Since then he has been building concepts for entertainment...

Is currently leading the group tasked with managing, innovating and improving the “Free Spirit” Loyalty program, the subscription based loyalty program - $9 Fare Club and Cobrand relationships including Bank of America , Promerica and Mastercard plus all mileage related partnerships at Spirit...

A self-proclaimed futurist, Martin Mitev often feels like he’s living three different lives simultaneously. He scrutinises what has happened and what appears in news feeds and conferences to inspire colleagues to innovate at the office, cultivates two outstanding young citizens at home, and cruises ...

Mark Nasr was appointed Vice President, Loyalty and eCommerce in July, 2017. In this role, Mark has responsibility for developing the vision and strategies for Air Canada's all-new, digital first loyalty program to be launched in 2020. He will also lead the design, development, implementation...

Güliz Öztürk began her career at Turkish Airlines. From 1990 to 2003, she served in various roles including as Manager of International Relations and Contracts, Alliance Coordinator, Sales and Marketing Director at Turkish Airlines. During that time, she managed important projects such as launching ...

Fraser specialises in E-commerce, CRM and Digital and has worked in the travel and hospitality industry for more than six years. Currently working for Glasgow Airport, he is working towards building a centralised digital team that works across AGS Airports which collectively generates over £11...

Edward Bell is responsible for the development of brand strategy, consumer insights, loyalty marketing and marketing communications for the Cathay Pacific group globally.Mr Bell has spent the majority of his career in marketing strategy and later as a CEO for marketing and communication...

Mr. Fentener van Vlissingen is a visionary and airline industry authority. He is an innovative Sr. Product Owner at Transavia, with years of commercial and operational airline expertise and a former pilot, and First Officer.  Angelo leads Transavia’s product development and digital transformation...

Blair has held numerous technology, business and innovation leadership roles in the airline industry. Prior to joining Datalex, he was Vice President, Technology & Integration at JetBlue Airways where he led the strategy, architecture and delivery of several foundational IT platforms including...

With his 23 years of experience at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Alexander Csidei is an experienced aviation professional. He started his career at KLM in 1996 as a flight attendant, developed himself into a purser and ended his flying career after 12 years. Over the years he also worked at Inflight...

Joined SAS in 2017 and took responsibility for building an Artificial Intelligence team during 2018 to drive adoption of AI across SAS from intelligent automation to chatbots and machine learning. Prior to SAS worked eight years with supporting companies to adopt new technology focusing on...

Kerstin Lomb joined SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, as Chief Marketing Officer in February 2019. In her role, she is responsible for all marketing and communications related activities of the German-Turkish leisure carrier, which celebrates its 30 years anniversary in ...

Mike leads the Ancillary Revenue team at Frontier Airlines. Frontier is a low-fare airline flying to 100 North American destinations with a fleet of more than 80 aircraft. The Ancillary Revenue team focuses on applying classical and behavioural economics and data science to offer management and...

“Emre Yavuz is currently working as Manager of Advanced Analytics and Customer Data Management. He has the responsibility for management of customer data, leading advanced analytical projects and all CRM functionalities in Turkish Airlines. His team is working on projects that create value from...

Over 18-years business analysis and process transformation experiences across retail banking, international luxury brand, logistics and commercial airlines industries. With recent years as the product and process owner of online payment process and payment fraud at Cathay Pacific Airways Limited.

Sergio joined SITA in 2017 as President of Europe. Since his arrival, he is strongly committed to improve the value delivered by SITA across the air transport industry in the region, leveraging the truly global footprint, the differentiating services and innovation capabilities that make SITA’s...

An industry veteran with an experience of about 25 years, Anurag started his journey with IBM in India and the US. Anurag joined Nagarro in 2016 to spearhead the Data Science and AI endeavors. Being part of Nagarro, he is convinced that working in a respectful, ethical, and humane environment is...

Ms. Sinead Finn has worked in the travel industry for more than 20 years.After working for the Irish Tourist Board, she joined Ryanair in 1998 asSales Manager for Italy. In 2002, Sinead was promoted to Head of Sales andMarketing with overall responsibility for the company's Sales and...

Director, Industry Payment programs, working across the industry main stakeholders to implement major changes. 16 years of experience at IATA in the industry related projects and 8 years at Ernst & Young in financial services (audit, merges and acquisition support, arbitration, …)

Ultan O’Brien is Head of Global Sales for IFE and Connected Platform (IFEC+)Mr. O’Brien has over 10 years commercial experience of value based Sales into Airlines covering connectivity, entertainment, payments, in-flight and travel retail, data analytics & personalization solutions with...

Richard Clarke’s 20 years of experience in the travel industry includes work as a consultant and an adviser on technology for airlines, global distribution systems, travel agents, governmental agencies and regulatory bodies, institutional investors, and IT system vendors with solutions for the...

Sergey Kiselev is Head of Europe at ZeroAvia – a leading innovator in decarbonising commercial aviation, focused on the development of a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain for commercial flight. Sergey is based out of the company’s facility at Cranfield, UK. Prior to joining ZeroAvia, Sergey led...

Stephane holds the vision for CellPoint Digital’s portfolio, and the job of translating it into an irresistible value proposition that will grow the brand and drive sales. He has a world of experience in marketing travel technology for the likes of Amadeus and Travelport Digital.His background...