Amadeus Appoints Rajiv Rajian as Executive Vice President of Global Business Travel
January 23, 2017 at 09:00 am EST
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Amadeus announced that Rajiv Rajian is appointed Executive Vice President of Global Business Travel, effective immediately. Rajian will be tasked with driving continued growth worldwide across three key pillars of Amadeus' business travel division: Global Travel Management Companies (TMCs), the Specialty and Networks customers, and corporations. This will consist of leading global TMCs and clients operating in the managed travel verticals such as marine and energy as well as the franchise and network clients. The role will also encompass expanding Amadeus' business travel portfolio, including Amadeus cytric Travel & Expense and continuing to support the 11,000+ customers that use Amadeus' online booking tools. Rajian brings 20 years of deep travel industry expertise to Amadeus, with a strong track record in business travel, product marketing, strategy and mergers and acquisitions. In his most recent role, Rajian was responsible for all commercial activities for Sabre Travel Network, incorporating both global and corporate customers, as Vice President, Global Sales & Account Management. Before that, Rajian spent time as Vice President, Product Marketing, also at Sabre, with responsibility worldwide for all points of sale and platform solutions.
Amadeus IT Group, S.A. owns and operates the world's No. 1 travel distribution and reservation computer system. The group's system allows travel agencies and airline sales offices to make reservations to hotels, car rental agencies, and service providers (including ocean transportation companies, tour operators, cruise lines, etc.).
The group is also involved in supplying computer services and marketing services for online reservation software and data flow management software.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Spain (2.6%), Germany (6.4%), the United Kingdom (4.7%), France (4.2%), Europe-Middle East-Africa (30.7%), the United States ( 22.4%), America (9%) and Asia-Pacific (20%).