Mike Koetting
SAP Concur Solution Area Leader
SAP
Mike Koetting is the SVP, Leader of the SAP Concur Solution Area. In this role, he is responsible for the overall success for the SAP Concur-branded portfolio of employee spend management solutions, including the flagship product Concur Travel and Expense. The SAP Concur Solution Area is part of SAP’s Intelligent Spend and Business Network Group, the most trusted and complete enterprise Spend Management platform.
In his 10-year tenure Mike has also served as SAP Concur’s Chief Product Strategy Officer and EVP of Supplier and TMC Services. As the Chief Product Strategy Officer, Mike was directly responsible for establishing the long-term vision and roadmap for SAP Concur’s product portfolio. As the EVP of Supplier and TMC Services he was responsible for Concur's relationships with travel suppliers, GDSs and TMCs.
Prior to joining SAP Concur Mike held a variety of senior positions at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, including North American CFO and SVP Global Supplier Relations. Mike first joined the corporate travel industry with Maritz Corporate Travel based in Fenton, Missouri. While at Maritz, Mike served on the Board of Directors of TQ3, a global joint venture of Maritz, TUI and FCM Travel. Mike began his career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse after graduating with a BS in Accounting from Indiana University.
A frequent moderator and speaker at the annual conferences of the Global Business Travel Association in the US and Europe and other industry events, he serves on the advisory boards of Business Travel News and The Beat. In 2006, Business Travel News named Mike one of the 25 Most Influential Executives of the business travel industry.
An accomplished amateur athlete, Mike has completed more than 40 marathons, is a seven-time Ironman and in 2014 made an altruistic (anonymous) kidney donation at the Mayo Clinic.
Keith Barr
CEO
Intercontinental Hotels Group
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Joanna Geragthy
President and COO
JetBlue
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Scott Gillespie
Travel Industry Advisor
tClara LLC
Scott Gillespie breaks new ground and a bit of glass in the business travel industry. He is known for his pioneering work in travel procurement and his provocative views on the future of travel management. Scott provides advisory services as CEO of tClara LLC. He has held senior positions at Airlines Reporting Corporation, TRX (now SAP Concur), Travel Analytics and Kearney. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and lives near Cleveland.
Suzanne Neufang
CEO
GBTA
Suzanne was named to lead the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) in February 2021, where she oversees the association’s staff and services, providing value to members, sponsors and partners, and where she also leads the organization’s and industry’s recovery from recent pandemic challenges.
In prior roles she led the Americas for HRS, divisional B2B marketing at Intuit, global SaaS businesses for Sabre GetThere, and online B2C, B2B, and B2E initiatives at Verizon/GTE. She is also a past president at ACTE, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives.
With an MA in Communications from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a BA in broadcasting/foreign languages from Minot State University, Suzanne is based in New York, NY.
Mark Ziegler
Senior Travel Manager
NetApp, Inc.
Mark Ziegler is entering his 40th year in the travel industry. His last 22 years have been as a corporate travel buyer. He has worked at travel management companies (American Express and Hoffman Travel), a GDS (Worldspan), and Northwest Airlines. He is very active in GBTA where he has earned his CCTE, GTP, and GLP designations. He has served GBTA as a director at large on the Board of Directors, Vice President, and President of the Chapter President's Council. He lives in Rocklin, California and works for data management company NetApp.
Sally Abella
Senior Director Global Corporate Travel
Harman International Industries Inc.
Sally Abella has been in the travel industry for more than 30 years and at Harman International Industries Inc. for 28 years. As Senior Director of Corporate Global Travel, her job responsibilities span all aspects of managed global corporate travel which includes T&E reimbursement, travel security, group meetings and events, and all corporate travel supplier relationships. The Harman corporate travel staff is based on three continents supporting 34 countries. Sally has held various board positions with the Los Angeles Business Travel Association, including past president. BTN recognized her in 2014 as a Best Practitioner for the work her team launched on virtual meetings.
Kate Rilling
Senior Manager, Global Travel and Expense
ServiceNow
Since embarking on a new career in Travel & Expense at ServiceNow in 2013, Kate has worked to grow the Global T&E program from supporting 1200 employees to today's 10,000+. Assuming the role of implementing the program to scale with ServiceNow's incredible growth rate and strategic initiatives has yielded an in depth understanding of T&E best practice and system integration while fostering an innovative vision. As Senior Manager, Global Travel & Expense Kate serves as the Global Process Owner working with an amazing cross functional team to deliver exciting solutions to improve operations with a direct impact on employee experience and company growth.
Philip Wooster
Vice President and Head of Sales EMEA
CWT
Phil Wooster, an Australian who has lived in New Zealand, Germany and currently resides in the UK returned to CWT in 2019 after an enjoyable and successful five years with SAP Concur in Germany. Phil is passionate about B2B4E (Business2Business4Employees) and how current and future technology combined with human interaction can enhance the travel and expense program of every company. One positive Phil has uncovered during lockdown, the enjoyment of running every second day. Great for mental health.
Louise Kilgannon
Consultant
Festive Road
Highly strategic, creative and professional travel geek with a passion for engagement and outsourcing. An irreverent and engaging public speaker with over 15 years' industry experience. Strong buyer background running programs for large global corporations (Procter & Gamble, AstraZeneca, Infor, Philips, Microsoft) with an active involvement across multiple industry boards and associations. A passionate people leader experienced in leading large, diverse teams across multiple geographies.
Alison Rogan
Head of Travel and Expense
Barclays
As Global Head of Travel and Expense, Alison is accountable for the execution and management of the Barclays travel,expense and corporate card program, placing a clear focus on continuous improvement, creating opportunities for efficiency through automation and in turn maximising the opportunities for cost containment, ensuring that necessary governance steps are in place in support of the firms duty of care responsibilities and to meet applicable risk and control objectives.
Harry Hohmeister
Member of the Executive Board and CCO Passenger Airlines
Lufthansa Group
