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NBTA Foundation Welcomes New Board Members

            CONTACT:        Caleb Tiller, 703-684-0836, ext. 138, ctiller@nbta.org

                        Daphne Bryant, 703-739-3410, dbryant@nbtafoundation.org

 

Alexandria, VA (February 26, 2007) -- The NBTA Foundation, the education and research foundation of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA), today announced new members of its Board of Trustees.

 

NBTA Foundation Board Chair, Ellen Keszler, president of Sabre Corporate Solutions, said, “I am pleased to welcome these leading corporate travel industry professionals to the NBTA Foundation Board of Trustees, and I know they will help the foundation continue to advance its mission of providing leading research tools, educational programs and professional development scholarships to corporate travel professionals.”

 

Keszler added, “A warm ‘thank-you’ is due to the outgoing Board members Fay Beauchine, Carlson Companies; Mathias Friess, Virgin Blue; Susan Jacobs, Visa U.S.A. Inc.; and Jack O'Neill, Carlson Wagonlit Travel for their contributions to the NBTA Foundation’s work on behalf of the industry. Their leadership helped the foundation raise and award $90,000 in scholarships in 2006, launch a high-level professional designation as part of the Global Leadership Professional (GLP) program, conduct important industry research and enhance the one-of-a-kind Managed Travel Index® (MTI) & Benchmarking Tool. Moving forward with a new Board, we will continue to build on their success and the groundwork laid by the work the foundation has done since 1997.”

 

For the next year, the makeup of the NBTA Foundation Board will be as follows:

 

Leadership

Ellen Keszler, Chair

President

Sabre Corporate Solutions

 

Richard Wooten, Vice Chair

Director, Corporate Travel Services

Lockheed Martin Corporation

 

New Members

Bindu Bhatia

Vice President, Global Sales, North America

Carlson Wagonlit Travel

 

Mary Casey

VP Strategic Account Management

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc 

 

Denise Lodrige-Kover

Vice President, BTS & Strategic Partnership Accounts

Hilton Hotels Corporation

 

Norma Rohrbach

Vice President Global Services Sourcing

Citigroup

 

 

 

Returning Members

Sheri Carlsen, CCTE

Senior Vice President of Transportation

American Institute for Foreign Study

 

Bill Connors, CTC

Executive Director & COO

National Business Travel Association

 

Pam Elledge

Vice President - Sales & Distribution

Delta

 

Suzanne Fletcher

President & CEO, NBTA

Director of Travel, Meetings, Food Service, Fleet, Transportation

Weyerhaeuser

 

Andrew McGraw

Senior Vice President & General Manager American Express Business Travel NA
American Express Company

 

Katina Tryforos

Travel Manager, Special Services & Customer Support

Deloitte Services LP

 

Peter Turso

Managing Principal

Seaside Consulting LLC

 

 

Daphne Bryant, Secretary/Treasurer (Ex-Officio)

Foundation Director 

NBTA Foundation

 

Carol Devine, CCTE (Ex-Officio)

Chairman/Past President, NBTA

Director, Strategic Sourcing 

BNSF Railway Company

 

The NBTA Foundation is the education and research foundation of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA). The foundation was established in 1997 to support NBTA’s members and the industry as a whole. As the only education and research foundation in the business travel industry, the NBTA Foundation seeks to fund initiatives to advance the business travel profession. The foundation offers the only master’s-level accredited course and professional designation for the corporate travel professional, the Global Leadership Professional (GLP) program, in partnership with The Wharton School. The industry’s leading benchmarking resource – the Managed Travel Index® (MTI) & Benchmarking Tool – is offered by the foundation. The NBTA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For more information, see www.nbtafoundation.org.

 

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