As well as leading the Board, Martin's role is building an industry consensus from what can be very different initial points of view and designing strategic technologies that anticipate these future needs.

Martin has held the International Marketing role at Reed Travel Group, where he was on the Executive Board and prior to that was Head of Marketing for Hertz Europe. With over 20 years experience in international travel and tourism he has a substantial track record in developing high value travel industry sales and distribution strategies.

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Brian Farrugia is a seasoned and accomplished travel industry executive. Through his work and leadership, hotels, venues and hospitality bookers are brought together to develop a total online structured content business solution.

Prior to joining ABC Connection Brian worked with Holiday Autos where, as Chief Operating Officer, he took full responsibility for all operating countries in the global network.

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As Chief Technology Officer, John oversees ABC's design and core technology across the business units. This role includes driving ABC's technology platform for designers and developers including specialist tools such as Request for Tender, Request for Meetings and Fast XML.

John also oversees ABC's developer relations programme, including the integration of customers and partners in the development process through ABC Labs and customer advisory panels.

Prior to joining ABC, John served as Managing Director of Jemasys (UK) providing mainframe software solutions to Times Top 1000 companies.

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Keith has deep knowledge and background in digital media and the digital supply chain process. His primary role is to build effective business relationships with all key clients and ensure highest possible level of customer satisfaction; in addition Keith is responsible for building and leading a high performance sales team.

Before ABC Connection, Keith worked with Andersen Consulting and Galileo International.

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With unrivalled experience in distribution strategies, Linda's role at ABC Connection is to manage and develop the strong network of global distributors that benefit ABC's hotel and venue clients and accomplishes this by working extremely closely with travel industry professionals including booking agents and travel management companies. Additionally, Linda ensures that ABC Connection systems and all its associated tools are utilised to best effect by agency staff and their corporate or retail clients.

Linda comes to ABC with over 20 years senior management experience in the travel industry; Directing Reservations and GDS globally for both Hertz and Europcar. Linda was subsequently a Director with Perot Systems working on their National Car Rental development.

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The leading database manager, Stan is responsible for the development, management and control of ABC Connection’s GENERATOR DATABASE system. Stan also has editorial control of property updates undertaken by ABC Connection hotel and venue clients.

In his previous role as Publisher for Lloyds of London Press Stan was responsible for the production of a series of highly detailed and complex maritime publications.

Kevin is responsible for all aspects of the company's financial records up to statutory accounts, including monthly management accounts. In this role he also manages the smooth running of the office, including all service contracts and purchasing.

Trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant Kevin worked in the City of London before working with KPMG in Hong Kong. His main career was with the US multinational Mobil where he worked for over 20 years and was a director of several subsidiaries.

Ian is a talented and creative problem solver and is tasked with running the Core Technology Team enhancing ABC Connection’s existing software programmes. In addition, Ian is challenged to define applications for emerging delivery platforms.

Ian joined ABC Connection from his previous senior development role with Westcoast Ltd.

Kathliya Sangpreechakul is marketing executive for ABC Connection and supports all accounts. She assists in the organisation of company presentations and road shows, client administration and processes new business wins.

Michael's role is to ensure ABC Connection's commercial users and listed meeting venues are fully supported on technical queries.

His experience in computing and technology as well as his previous roles in the event management and hospitality business ensure he's well-equipped to enable clients to achieve optimum results from ABC Connection's innovative technology.

Duncan is responsible for maintaining ABC Connection’s current systems and implementing feature requests for Distribution Partners. With his strong creative streak, Duncan is also part of the product development group.

After graduating with a degree in Business Information Systems, Duncan came to ABC Connection from Information Governance where he was a developer.