Robert L. Crandall

The Wall Street Journal has called Robert L. Crandall, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AMR Corporation and American Airlines, "the man who changed the way the world flies." During his 25-year tenure at American Airlines, Crandall was instrumental in introducing several changes, which revolutionized the travel industry. Crandall is currently non executive chairman and a director of Celestica Inc., and director of, or consultant to, various privately held companies.

Crandall is currently non Executive Chairman and a Director of Celestica Inc., and Director of, or Consultant to, various privately held companies. Among the many national and trade publications that have honored Crandall for his achievements and executive leadership are BusinessWeek, Industry Week, Aviation Week and Space Technology, Financial World and Air Transport World. In April 1997, Crandall received the Horatio Alger Award, which honors individuals who have achieved success despite challenging life circumstances.

Charlie Feld
Founder & CEO
The Feld Group

As founder & CEO of The Feld Group—based in Dallas, Texas. Feld built a team of information technology executives that enabled dramatic results in Fortune 500 companies through the transformation of their own IT organizations. The Feld Group was acquired by EDS in 2004, which was subsequently purchased by Hewlett-Packard in 2008. In September 2008, Feld retired as a senior executive vice president and member of EDS’ Executive Committee. The Feld Group was re-launched as a Leadership Development firm in 2009.

Henry H. Harteveldt
Vice President, Principal Analyst
Forrester

Henry's research helps travel industry eBusiness & Channel Strategy professionals worldwide understand and anticipate how technology will affect the way they market, sell, and distribute their products and services. He joined Forrester in January 2000 to lead the worldwide travel industry practice. Henry's research at Forrester has served to define strategy and opportunity across the travel industry and functions as a leading indicator of key trends and innovation.

Harvey Gluckman
Partner & Managing Director,
TPI

As Partner & Managing Director of Retail, Consumer Products and Transportation verticals for the Americas, Mr. Gluckman offers TPI's clients extensive knowledge and insight gained from some of the largest and most complex transformational sourcing initiatives in the industry. His wide range of experience spans the architecture of merger and acquisition, joint venture, divestiture and creative transaction structures, including adept use of cost-quality relationships in setting efficiency goals for corporate business support functions. These client engagements extend across business process and IT outsourcing initiatives. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has been directly involved in more than 80 service delivery strategies, assessments and outsourcing relationships impacting his clients operational budgets exceeding US 30 billion dollars.

Ajay Paul
North American Head,
Travel & Transportation, MindTree Ltd

Ajay Paul is the North American Head for Travel and Transportation, MindTree with 20+ years of experience in IT and consulting services. Ajay has specialized in Airline and Global Distribution Services for some of the largest airline and airline related IT companies worldwide.

Ajay has built India based global delivery organizations for major travel related IT companies to utilize the global delivery model to capitalize on the availability of highly-educated, technically-skilled talent in India and other emerging economies to deliver lower costs, higher quality, and productivity.

Ajay has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Physics, and an MBA with specialization in Operations Research

Robert Wiseman,
CTO, Sabre Holdings

With 32 years of experience in IT, 24 of those years in the travel industry, Robert joined Sabre as CTO in May of 2006 from Travelport in Denver, where he also served as CTO. Since joining the company, Robert has moved Sabre to its first enterprise-wide set of infrastructure standards that are managed by his organization and allow the business units to focus their attentions on the attributes of our business which differentiates us from our competition