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 Travelport  the leading travel commerce platform, announced today appointments to senior roles within its Commercial team, led by Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Shurrock.

Mr Shurrock’s senior team comprises three senior executives including Fiona Shanley, Chief Customer & Marketing Officer, and two other colleagues appointed to new roles.

These are:

  • Head of Agency Sales: Nick Dagg joined Travelport on 29 October to take on this position. Nick joins from DXC Technology, where he led the UKIMEA go-to-market teams.  He has previously worked at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services and IBM Global Business Services.
  • Head of Travel Partners: Jason Clarke moves from his previous role as Head of Agency Sales to oversee a newly-created function incorporating all content relationships across our air, hospitality and car partners. Jason will also assume responsibility for Travelport’s Airline IT services business as well as its digital sales organization. Jason first joined Travelport in 2004 and has previously led sales and commercial operations in a number of regional and global functions.

In addition, Damian Hickey has been appointed as Global Head of Air Partners within the Travel Partners team, reporting to Jason Clarke. Damian has global responsibility for Travelport’s air content strategy and the commercial relationship with our airline partners, having held leadership positions in the company’s APAC region since 2012.

Stephen Shurrock commented “I am delighted to welcome Nick to Travelport. He comes with a very strong track record of sales for major global technology companies. This experience will equip us well as we transform our Agency Sales commercial capabilities to drive further growth. With Jason bringing his agency experience to the content side, and Damian stepping up to the global role for airline content, I am confident we have a very strong team to drive our commercial strategy as we make the experience of buying and managing travel continually better for all our customers.”