Association of Corporate Travel Executives

GBTA President Resigns As Association Prepares To Put Fundamental Changes To Members

Bhart Sarin resigned from his post as president of the Global Business Travel Association. His announcement came a few weeks before the association’s members start voting on bylaw changes and a few months before they vote to fill at least six and as many as eight vacancies on the board of directors. “Today, I exit…

Incoming Executive Director Neufang Agreed With Some Of The Sharpest Criticism Of GBTA’s Board

“Well said, Mike.” Suzanne Neufang’s short comment was one of a few dozen posted on LinkedIn in June 2020 responding to an explanation by SAP Concur executive Mike Koetting of why the company terminated its relationship with the Global Business Travel Association. Koetting posted a little over a week after The Company Dime published a…

Questions For GBTA’s Next Executive Director

The corporate travel profession’s only U.S.-based, dues-generating membership association is hoping to announce its new executive director soon. Filling the role on an interim basis, initially through the end of 2020, Dave Hilfman now likely will stay on the job through the end of this month. The new full-time, professional leader of GBTA’s paid staff…

GBTA Finalizes ACTE Acquisition, Fills Two Open Board Seats

GBTA announced it completed its acquisition of certain assets of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, which filed for Chapter 7 in June. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court overseeing ACTE’s case approved the sale on Nov. 16. GBTA appointed to its board two former ACTE board members: American Airlines chief customer officer Alison Taylor and Tesla…

Op Ed: Ron DiLeo On The Demise Of ACTE And What’s Next For Business Travel Industry Associations

Ron DiLeo was the executive director and COO of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives from 2010 to 2012. Based on that experience and his long history in corporate travel, including lately as a consultant and risk management entrepreneur, DiLeo argues that membership associations need to continually reinvent their programming if they are going to…

ACTE Shuts Down

After announcing a temporary suspension of physical operations, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives on Wednesday revealed that it would be no more. “It is with broken hearts that we must announce that we are filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ACTE has ceased operations,” the organization’s board wrote in a message dated July 7….

Op Ed: Tony O’Connor On The Window Of Opportunity To Reset Industry Associations

Most in-person events organized by industry membership associations are on hold. Even if conditions improve to allow them to resume, consultant Tony O’Connor doesn’t think they should in the same way. As a leader for the Global Business Travel Association in the Australasia region, he has an inside view. His vision for a new model…

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