The Global Business Travel Asssociation's allied (supplier) members between Nov. 13 and Dec. 4 will vote online to fill the "allied at large" board seat vacated in June by Altour's Doug Payne. The candidates — Bruce McIndoe of McIndoe Risk Advisory, Phillip Peña from Mandarin Oriental Group and SAP Concur's Bernd Schulz — are running on platforms of reform. Given the year GBTA has had, how could they not?
Greater transparency is a common theme. It's the first of many races. . . .
Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.
