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Olympic Holidays further expands its senior team
Olympic Holidays has made two senior purchasing appointments as part of its new management team, being put together by new chief executive Clare Tobin.
Ricky Wason will join as UK head of purchasing, reporting directly to Tobin, based in the company’s north London office.
He joins from dnata Travel where he is currently senior purchasing manager for Middle East, Indian Ocean and Africa. Before that he was general manager of short-haul product and purchasing for Stella Travel Services.
Ricky spent the first part of his career as regional manager in Greece for First Choice and also headed up the purchasing team of the Eastern Mediterranean for Sovereign Holidays.
Meanwhile, Hans Kirk has been promoted to the new role of purchasing manager, based in Crete.
Kirk has been with Olympic Holidays since 2004 in a number of roles, most recently as regional manager.
These appointments come weeks after Tobin made three key appointments to the senior management team.
Tobin said: "This is an important time for Olympic Holidays as we shape the future direction and focus of the business. Both Ricky and Hans bring a wealth of contracting experience, specialist product knowledge and strong relevant relationships to the company.
"They will form a key part of the strategy the team and I are putting in place to cement the way forward for Olympic Holidays in the coming weeks, months and years."
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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