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Senior Vice President, Business Development

Directravel is one of the leaders in corporate travel management. Its mission is to provide corporate travel clients with significant cost savings programs, the latest technology solutions and superior, worldclass service. With a history of more than 25 years of solutions and industry innovation, the company provides a sophisticated array of travelinprogress, pretrip, posttrip and summary management reports. It also provides pre and posttravel reports online, including corporate policy exceptions, vendor and traveler analysis. Its synchronized profile management enables travelers and travel arrangers to create, view and modify their own profiles online. Since 1979, Directravel has been working with the top airlines, hotel chains and rental car companies throughout the world to negotiate exclusive rates on indemand air tickets, hotel room nights and ground transportation. It is headquartered in Mahwah, N.J.

Top performing Sales and Account Management executive with over twenty-five years of Sales Management expertise. Versatile team leadership skills, relationship-building, and territory planning execution for Business Development and Client Service teams. Strengths include C-Level credibility, project planning, needs assessment, and value proposition development with excellent communication skills.Specialties: Business strategy and development, relationship management, building long-term partnerships