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James Villa’s former CEO joins Feefo
Former James Villa Holidays’ CEO Tony Wheble has joined review site Feefo as Non-Executive Chairman.
Tony spent 10 years working in the leisure travel sector, acquiring villa holiday operator James Villa Holidays as CEO in a private equity-backed MBO.
He went on to sell the business to Wyndham Worldwide.
He was formerly Commercial Director of Flextech Television Plc (now Virgin Media) and spent more than 20 years working in the UK media industry at ITV, Omnicom and Interpublic.
Feefo CEO Matt West CEO said: "We are delighted to have someone with Tony’s business acumen join us as Chairman. Tony has significant experience of working in customer-focused organisations where data, insight and technology are key business drivers.
"This expertise will be important as we continue to expand our portfolio of customer experience solutions, and our mission to deliver deep and fully actionable insights for our clients from their customer interactions."
By Linsey McNeill, Editor (UK)
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