SINGAPORE (March 30, 2011) – Leading
online global travel network Swiftrank
has promoted Internet travel executive Sue Heilbronner to the role of
Chief
Executive Officer. The travel website firm has also appointed veteran
travel
technology executive Bryan Harwood, as its Senior Vice President of
Strategy
and Innovation. The duo will help oversee Swiftrank’s rapidly expanding
global
network of over 12,000 location-based travel websites.
Sue Heilbronner |
Heilbronner
most recently served as Swiftrank’s Chief Marketing Officer and the
President
of Swiftrank North America, responsible for overseeing all marketing,
business
development, product development and sales for the company. She also
opened the
Company’s U.S. office in April 2010 and quickly established key
partnerships
and clients in the global hospitality industry.
Prior
to joining Swiftrank last year,
Heilbronner helped launch two online startups, one in online education
and the
other in crowd-sourced book publishing. Previously, Heilbronner was
Executive
Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TIG Global, one of the
hospitality
industry's leading interactive marketing services providers. While at
TIG
Global, Heilbronner was a frequent industry speaker and author. In
2006, she
was named one of HSMAI’s Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales &
Marketing. Heilbronner holds a bachelor’s degree in government from
Oberlin
College and both a law degree and a master’s degree in public policy
from Duke
University. In accordance with her new role, Heilbronner will be moving
to the
company’s Singapore headquarters office this summer.
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Harwood
joined Swiftrank in January after eight years with Travelport, where he
was the
chief technology architect, leading a team of enterprise architects in
building
the next-generation global distribution system. He also played a
central role
in the integration of online travel agencies and meta-search companies
into
Travelport’s portfolio, developing a successful technology plan for the
merger
of Worldspan and Galileo GDS. Before joining Travelport, Harwood served
as
Enterprise Architect for Sun Microsystems Inc. and as an IT Architect
for IBM.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Information and Computer Science from
University of California, Irvine.
“Sue’s
strategic vision has been an integral factor in the rapid global growth
of our
network so far, and we are thrilled that she will now ascend to the
critical
CEO role,” said David Leppan, Co-founder and Chairman of Swiftrank.
“The success
that we are experiencing has also allowed us to attract top-level
travel
technology talent like Bryan to the company. We are confident that this
experienced team will help lay the groundwork for even more growth and
expansion, as the global travel market continues to rebound.”
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Bryan
Harwood
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For more information on Swiftrank and their online global travel
network, please
visit www.swiftrank.com.
About
Swiftrank | Swiftrank
is the world’s largest online travel network, overseeing more than
12,000
location-based travel websites for destinations around the globe.
Swiftrank’s
optimized, interactive sites facilitate transactions from more than 101
countries, generating profitable revenue for travel companies by
driving direct
bookings for hotels, resorts, restaurants, spas and car rental
companies
premium placements on one or more highly relevant, targeted sites,
including www.LasVegasHotels.com and www.SingaporeHotels.com.sg.
Swiftrank, Pte Ltd., is headquartered in Singapore, with
offices in the United States. To learn more about how Swiftrank can
work for
your property or travel company, please visit www.Swiftrank.com,
follow at @Swiftrank,
or call toll-free 866-308-RANK (7265)
or +1-720-239-1285.
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