Ex-Commercial Director – Techwings, India - Over 20 years of international senior level experience of having worked as Commercial Director- Techwings software solutions; Business Head Shanfari Travel,Oman; Country Manager – Orbitz ( MICE) India; British Airways Oman & Bahrain.
Headed a SBU with complete responsibility of P&L delivery, in the Airline, Travel-Tourism and Software Sales industry, in India, Middle East and Australia, with a strong sales and operations background and a proven track record of growth and profitability and
Partnered software company to develop a tool catering to airline software needs, and to fulfill the complex task of creating revenue budgets for airlines and offer day to day intelligence on performance, competing with established incumbents like Sabre and Amadeus. Successfully launched the product with a low cost airline Air Arabia, and the product was enhanced to cater to all airlines for passenger and cargo revenue budgeting and successfully further engaged clients like Etihad, Air Berlin, Sri Lankan, Fly Dubai, RAK Airways etc.
From a single outlet - non-IATA travel office with 8 staff, as General Manager Shanfari Travel grew the company to 3 SBU's with 5 retail outlets, with over 40 staff and adding franchise operations of BCD Travel, National Car rental & Air Arabia GSA, grew the top line to over US$ 20M (growth of 250% in 4 years from takeover)