THE ACTE COLUMN CAROLINE ALLEN
Caroline Allen is the regional director of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (
acte.org)
JULIE NORBURN Julie Norburn has joined CWT Meetings and Events UK and Ireland as commercial director. Norburn joins CWT after 13 years working in the MICE industry. She has previously held positions at the Excel London exhibition centre and IIR Exhibitions.
CATALINA NANNIG LATAM has appointed Catalina Nannig as the company’s new European commercial director. She previously worked as the group’s long-haul strategy director in both Chile and Brazil, after starting her career with business consultants McKinsey and Company.
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DAVID COPPENS BCD Travel has appointed David Coppens to the newly- created role of executive vice-president for global operations, reporting to the TMC’s global chief operating officer, Mike Janssen. Coppens joined BCD from American Airlines in 2002.
DORIS GREIF Jumeirah Group has appointed Doris Greif as its new regional vice-president, Europe. Greif, whose appointment includes the role of general manager at Jumeirah Frankfurt, joined the group in 1999 and has served in a range of senior positions.
e’ve been busy. Aside from thought- provoking forums in Stockholm, Dubai, Milan and another sell-out BBT and ACTE partner forum in London, ACTE
CHARLES BUCHANAN Charles Buchanan has been appointed as CEO for Lydd Airport in Kent. Buchanan has 30 years’ experience in transport and most recently spent four years as CEO of Kent’s Manston airport. He has also worked for London City airport and Eurotunnel.
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LORRAINE JARVIE Hotel du Vin has promoted Lorraine Jarvie to the position of regional operations director. Jarvie has 15 years’ experience as a general manager with Hotel du Vin and Malmaison Group, and most recently managed Hotel du Vin’s Bristol property.
launched the industry’s first virtual conference at the end of September as a free member-benefit. Plenary sessions, plus 20 live chats, were hosted by market experts, exchanging knowledge with delegates logged into their laptops around the world. You can still register online for full access to the stored discussion feeds and recorded plenary sessions until the end of the year. Feedback has been fantastic, so sign up and take a look. With continued strong focus on quality education and information exchange, some of the industry’s most influential figures gathered in Copenhagen in October for ACTE’s Global Corporate Travel Conference (see Tom Newcombe’s report on p16). Relationships between senior buyers and suppliers were established and reinforced, while new products and service innovations were initiated. ACTE launched its unrivalled member benefit, enabling buyer members to attend any ACTE events around the world at zero registration fee. Supplier members enjoy a 35 per cent rate discount. Also, ACTE’s 2015 conference cities were announced: Atlanta April 12-14, Hong Kong August 25-27, and Paris in October, which will be staged in partnership with the French Association of Travel Managers, AFTM. The Enact group (European Network of Associations for Corporate Travel, a collaboration between ACTE, and the French, Belgian, Dutch and Spanish associations) hosted a main-stage discussion to highlight the potential financial impact to corporations if credit card interchange fee regulations are adopted by the European Commission. ACTE’s blog,
actechatter.com, is due to go live in November, while ACTE Social was launched to connect members on the move – travellers can choose to make their whereabouts known to other ACTE members in order to meet up.
Check our online calendar at
acte.org for upcoming events in the UK, Europe and around the world – if you aren’t an ACTE member, you are missing out on a wealth of opportunity to grow your personal brand and your business: why not come and join us?
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