Hotel Jumpstart

With a strong background in technology and experience in mentoring start-ups during his 5 years at Google, Ali understands how to support start-ups to break through to become revenue generating.

Anshu is a seasoned product leader with 15 years of experience, having spent 8 years building customer propositions to start, scale and optimize marketplaces in London and a further 7 years developing new technology at start-ups in Silicon Valley.

Brad is a technology leader with 2 decades of building and successfully delivering digital projects across a variety of industries and platforms. To the programme, he brings the ability to convert business requirements into technical solutions and to create teams, process and plans to deliver those products.

Dan leads the Hotels.com Mobile Apps Product and Design teams as well as the global Mobile Marketing team and is responsible for Hotels.com’s global mobile strategy across web and apps. His key areas of expertise are product management, digital marketing, digital analytics and strategy.

Having been a successful e-commerce start up owner and serving as advisor for other start-ups, Fritz understands what is required for start-up success. He also has in-depth knowledge of setting up web projects, marketing them via different channels and knowledge of the online travel tech world.

Before joining Expedia, Gianmarco worked at several start-ups and even launched his own travel peer-to-peer platform. Gianmarco is passionate about product creation and start-ups, and keen to share what start-up lessons he’s learnt during his career.

Ian has worked in IT for over 20 years, predominantly in large scale or high performance distributed systems in environments ranging from Front Office trading, through Telco, online gaming and government. In his last five years at EAN, he’s worked to modernize systems, while managing 20x increase in traffic volumes.

Prior to working at Expedia, Jack founded two start-ups: growing one organically and building another as a joint venture with a global fashion-tech company in London. He is looking forward to sharing his experience and helping start-ups make the most of the resources available to them at Expedia.

Jane is a senior product leader with 9 years of experience in launching new sites and mobile products, and growing existing propositions. She has a proven track record of optimizing online and mobile conversion, and hitting commercial targets.

Makram has 15 years of experience in technology, strategy, operations and execution across the US, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He started off as a software engineer, continued as a strategy consulting manager, then joined Expedia where he developed a new product category by commercializing an internal tool and bringing it to market.

Max has a long and varied background in finance, data & technology, with experience in FinTech Innovation at HSBC. Now with Hotels.com, Max is responsible for data platforms and strategy.

Nazim is a software engineer with over 5 years of experience as a technical lead, building cutting edge, rich, accessible and progressively enhanced websites. Before joining Expedia, he built and delivered the Asia Pacific ecommerce platform for Burberry. He has also volunteered as a mentor to young people in the tech industry and organised corporate sponsorship for hackathons.

Vareeya is a strategy and business development professional with experience in e-commerce, travel, retail and consumer goods industries. She has extensive experience working across different geographies and is experienced in building and developing a long term relationships with strategic partners.

Martin has over 20 years experience in direct marketing, CRM and customer marketing roles at both ‘bricks and mortar’ retail and e-commerce travel brands. Having joined Hotels.com when it was a start-up he is uniquely positioned to support start-ups during the programme and currently volunteers as a mentor for students in London.

Ben has a background in driving business growth through sales and marketing, gained from working with leading digital agencies and global ecommerce organisations. He has set up and run two of his own businesses, bringing a deep understanding of how to build a compelling value proposition and executing on a global sales and marketing plan.