Travelport announces senior appointments to commercial team

From left: Clarke, Dagg and Hickey

Travelport has named senior appointments within its commercial team led by chief commercial officer Stephen Shurrock.

Effective October 29, Nick Dagg is the new head of agency sales. He joins from DXC Technology, where he led the UKIMEA go-to-market teams.

Dagg previously worked at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services and IBM Global Business Services.

Jason Clarke, from his role of head of agency sales, is now the head of travel partners, a newly created function incorporating all content relationships across air, hospitality and car partners.

He will also assume responsibility for Travelport’s airline IT services business as well as its digital sales organisation.

Clarke first joined Travelport in 2004 and has previously led sales and commercial operations in a number of regional and global functions.

Reporting to Clarke is Damian Hickey, who has been appointed global head of air partners within the travel partners team.

Hickey has global responsibility for Travelport’s air content strategy and the commercial relationship with airline partners, having held leadership positions in the company’s Asia-Pacific region since 2012.

source: TTG Asia