American Express Global Business Travel Appoints Rodolfo Elizondo as Vice President, Head of Global Business Consulting

American Express Global Business Travel ("GBT") today announced the appointment of Rodolfo Elizondo as Vice President and Head of Global Business Consulting. In this role, Mr. Elizondo will lead the Global Business Consulting Group within GBT in helping customers achieve best in class results in third party negotiations and partnerships, travel program optimization and outsourced travel management. He will report to Chief Global Sales Officer, Christine Ourmieres-Widener.

"Rodolfo's deep leadership experience with large scale global consulting organizations, air and hotel suppliers and advanced technology innovators is a perfect fit to help our customers take their travel programs to new heights. He is a strong addition to the GBT team," said Ms. Ourmieres-Widener.

Mr. Elizondo brings to this role over 15 years of combined travel, hospitality and consulting experience at global companies based in the US and Mexico. For the past five years, Mr. Elizondo worked at Sabre in a variety of roles, including most recently as Vice President in their Consulting Division and Practice Leader for E-Commerce, Sales and Distribution, Merchandising and Customer Experience. In these roles he provided strategic and technology consulting to leading organizations around the world. Prior to joining Sabre, he held leadership positions in commercial distribution for Mexicana Airlines, a corporate strategy role for the hotel group Grupo Posadas, a business development role at a digital marketing firm and also worked at McKinsey & Company as a consultant.

Mr. Elizondo has a Masters of Business Administration from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico.

About American Express Global Business Travel

American Express Global Business Travel enables corporations and empowers business travelers with insights, connections and exceptional customer service on a global scale. Through technology and information, American Express Global Business Travel provides leading travel solutions, integrated consulting services, proprietary research, and end-to-end meetings and events capabilities. These innovative offerings enable clients to optimize the return on their travel and meetings investments.

American Express Global Business Travel has operations and network partners in nearly 140 countries worldwide with approximately 12,000 employees. American Express Global Business Travel ranked first among corporate travel providers in the 2015 Corporate Travel 100 ("CT100"), an annual listing compiled by Business Travel News which ranks companies with the largest volume of U.S. air bookings. Learn more about how American Express Global Business Travel connects the world at amexglobalbusinesstravel.com and twitter.com/amexgbt.

American Express Global Business Travel ("GBT") is a joint venture that is not wholly-owned by American Express Company or any of its subsidiaries ("American Express"). "American Express Global Business Travel", "American Express" and the American Express logo are trademarks of American Express, and are used under limited license.

SOURCE: BUSINESS WIRE

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