Travel Network Group makes two key appointments
The Travel Network Group has made two key appointments to its senior management team.
Emily Sutton has been appointed director of operations and will take a seat on the Board.
She joined in April 2016 as operations manager and was later promoted to head of operations.
In her new role as director of operations she will have overall responsibility for operations, risk and trustees, including managing the group’s compliance, insurances, and ATOL requirements.
She will also oversee the company’s relationships with key stake holders, such as merchant acquirers, foreign exchange providers, the CAA and banking partners.
Meanwhile, Anna Perrott joins with immediate effect as head of cruise.
Perrott joins from Dnata, where she held the position of head of cruise and touring for Travelbag. Before this she held roles at JTA, Flexicruise, Belleair Cruise and Cruise.co.uk.
In her new role, she will lead the group’s growing cruise team based in Woking and further develop its Cruise Club proposition going forward.
Gary Lewis, CEO for The Travel Network Group, said: "I am delighted to be making these two key appointments.Emily has developed a great deal of experience over the last three years and today of delivers a robust and competent understanding of what is a portfolio of complex areas and Anna has extensive experience of the UK cruise industry and brings with her a wealth of knowledge of the sector having worked for many of the UK’s major cruise businesses.
"We have every confidence that in their new positions both Emily and Anna will help support our ambitious development plans for these strategically important parts of our business."
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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