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"Where investors meet, examine the investment potential and do deals with top travel entrepreneurs"
Investors attend to:
- Assess top entrepreneurs and management teams for their investment potential your investment size and in the travel industry sector
- Identify and invest in great new Travel companies
- Listen to the "Gurus," Travel's most successful investors and discover where the leaders in your field are investing and why
- Save your valuable time. It will take you months of work to meet and assess this many investment opportunities. Here you will do it all in 1 hard but profitable day!
Entrepreneurs apply to pitch and:
- Pitch to highly successful backers in your area of business
- Receive valuable and constructive feedback direct from industry gurus, serial investors who know what it takes to build run and grow successful business
- Start ups source seed funding to start your business
- Existing businesses source growth capital to grow to the next level
- Compete for the EyeforTravel Entrepreneur of the year award and receive national acclaim and exposure as well as £7,000 of free market exposure
- Achieve maximum exposure for FREE!
How it all works
20 entrepreneurs will pitch for funding to teams of 4 "gurus" (serial investors in the travel sector who have a proven history of spotting and investing in companies that are about to boom.)
The gurus are all looking to invest and may well do so but for the running of the event the pitchers, are judged in terms of their idea, the people behind the idea and fundamentally their investment potential. From the 20, 4 will be picked to go the through to pitch again as part of the key note debate in the Travel Distribution Summit and the best wins the coveted EyeforTravel Entrepreneur of the Year award.
In addition to the invited gurus all the invited entrepreneurs will be pitching to an open audience of angel investors and private equity executives all looking for the right investment opportunities in their industry and looking to invest the amount the entrepreneurs are seeking!
Where entrepreneurs find investors and investors find great new ideas and capable management teams.
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Sign up to meet, debate and learn from all these top speakers and contributors:
- Ian McCaig, CEO, lastminute.com
- Faisal Galaria, MD Europe, Kayak
- Henriette Thilert, Head of Ancillary Revenue, Aer Lingus
- Pia Viljaniemi, eBusiness Development Manager, FINNAIR
- Odd Langvatn, Managing Director, Widerøe Internet AS
- Glenn Fogel, MD International, Priceline
- Thorsten Scherzer, VP Distribution, Air Berlin
- Jerry Dunn, Distribution Director, easyJet
- Tim Davis, SVP IT and Commercial, Hilton International
- Inge van den Acke, Direct Marketing Manager, Eurorelais
- Alyson Playford, Head of Global Travel Partnerships, British Airways
- Nicola Simionato, Head of e-Commerce, Gulf Air
- Lisa Orna, Head of Business development, EMEA, Hertz
- Sotiris Damianos, Managing Director, Hotelopia
- Gareth Gaston, Managing Director, Octopus Travel
- Isabelle Taylor, Director of Affiliates & Partnerships, The Trainline
- Niki Van Wijk, Head of e-Commerce, Transavia
- Daniel Kerzner, Regional Director of Marketing, Starwood Hotels & Resorts
- Speaker tbc, Eurostar
- Rex Demanser, Vice President Distribution & Revenue Management, Kempinski Hotels
- Shawn K Jereb, Corporate Director Revenue Management, Orient Express Hotels, Trains & Cruises
- Henrik Imhof, Head of Yield Management & Pricing, Sixt Autovermietung GmbH & Co KG
- Wilhelm Weber, Director Performance & Revenue Optimisation, World Hotels
- Chris Martin, Head of Revenue Management, Ramada Jarvis Hotels
- Alex Gisbert, Regional Director of International Strategic Accounts, Expedia Partner Services Group
- Horatiu Tudori, Professor, Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne
- Chetan Sharma, Director, Simon Kucher (UK)
- Christain Vitiello, Head of Revenue Managment, Haven & British Holidays
- Serge Chamelian, Business Development Manager Revenue Management, Amadeus
- Henrik Reimers, Regional Revenue Manager, Choice Hotels Scandinavia (panel)
- Neil Corr, Group Revenue & Distribution Manager, Premier Inn
- Chris Amenechi, eCommerce & Distribution Planning, Continental Airlines
- Ken Muir, global payments manager, British Airways
- Wim Kruit, Online Payment, Transavia
- Martin Shields, Senior Manager Ecommerce, Visa International
- Tobi Kuhlang, Vice President Revenue Development, Accor
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