2017 BUSINESS TRAVEL AWARDS
services to Nomura Group companies in EMEA and the management of all related personnel, suppliers, technology and expenditure.
PETER QUINN Category manager, Sopra Steria
Peter has worked for Sopra Steria, an IT and business-process services outsourcing company, for over 15 years, and had nearly 21 years’ procurement experience. He is responsible for all indirect spend, and has been responsible for the travel category for over five years.
ROD RICHARDSON Travel manager, Wellcome Trust
Rod Richardson is the travel manager at Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to the improvement of human and animal health. He has over 20 years’ experience in the travel industry, having bought and sold corporate travel throughout that time. As a non-profit organisation, Wellcome’s drive to keep costs down is as paramount as meeting the organisation’s mission, all the while meeting the daily challenges of operating in a large number of developing countries across the globe.
KATE SCULLY Travel advisor, Petrofac
Coming from an administration background, Kate has grown into her present role in travel and event management by building up a comprehensive travel programme for the business units of the Petrofac Group.
She manages a multimillion-pound spend with a global footprint covering agencies, hotels, airlines and ground transportation, plus meetings and events contracting. Kate is skilled in delivering smart solutions for the business and driving key stakeholder engagement within the group to achieve savings and control over spend for Petrofac.
AMANDA TAYLOR Head of travel, Lush
Amanda is head of travel at Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, with key responsibility for travel policy implementation, compliance and procurement for Lush Travel. Previous roles with American Express, Future Travel and Independent Travel Experts have given Amanda a strong understanding of the travel industry in retail, business travel, key account management, brand development and PR.
ALLISON WEBB Procurement category manager –
corporate services, Centrica Winner of the 2016 Travel Buyer of the Year award, Allison joined British Gas as the procurement travel category manager in May 2011, responsible for an annual travel and meetings spend in excess of £40 million across the Centrica group. Before joining British Gas she spent five years at O2 managing travel, meetings and events procurement, and six years at Dell as EMEA travel manager. She joined Dell after spending ten years with United Airlines, in its UK sales department.
Chairman of the judging panel
MIKE TOYNBEE Managing editor,
Buying Business Travel With more than 37 years’ experience of editing business travel publications, Mike is one of the industry’s most experienced and longest-serving editors. He was the founder editor of Executive Travel in 1979 and was the launch editor of BBT in 2003.
Moderators
PAUL REVEL Editor, Buying Business Travel Paul’s editorial team includes some of the most respected and experienced writers in the sector, bringing essential information and engaging content to BBT’s readership of top corporate travel and meetings buyers. He regularly talks to key industry players, and participates in major conferences and events worldwide.
BOB PAPWORTH, Executive editor,
Buying Business Travel A career journalist, Bob has been specialising in corporate travel issues for 19 years. In addition to his role as executive editor of BBT, he is also a conference circuit regular, moderating events for, among others, ACTE, ITM and the Serviced Apartment Summit.
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