TRAVELPORT has made several new appointments to its leadership team, all taking place with immediate effect.
Sandra McLeod has been named CEO of Locomote, an Australian travel start-up which Travelport has recently taken a controlling share of. Prior to this, she was group vice president for global accounts and corporate development at Travelport, and will leverage on her past 25 years of international sales experience at her new role.
Scott Hyden, formerly group vice president and managing director at Travelport Americas, is now group vice president, enterprise customer group. Before joining Travelport, Hyden served as president of STA Travel, and before that he was general manager for Travelocity Business.
Bret Kidd takes over Hyden as group vice president and managing director for Travelport Americas and will have overall responsibility for the company’s travel agency, TMC and regional OTA customers across the region. Before joining Travelport, Kidd was most recently from Stratos Management Systems.
Dan Westbrook in turn replaces Kidd as vice president and general manager for Travelport’s air commerce technologies business, which delivers IT and business intelligence solutions to airlines. He first joined Travelport in April 2009 and previously held senior roles in travel merchandising at Sabre.
