Time flies when you're having fun. BTN has published for a decade by 1993, and it's time to look back at (nearly) a decade of Business
Travel News’ Travel Manager of the Year Award recipients. These are the
individuals that crystalized the challenges of their travel management eras and
pushed the industry to create better structures and solutions. BTN launched in
1984 but recognized its first Travel Manager of the Year in 1985. Kudos to BTN’s
first decade of winners!
[Editor's note: We pulled images from our archives to offer the looks and "fits" of the era. Enjoy!]
1985: John Bacon
John Bacon, president of the National Passenger Traffic Association (now, the
Global Business Travel Association) and responsible for 8,000 travelers at
Tenneco Business Services, took leadership in dealing with the overwhelming
issues of the time—airline industry deregulation and the variety of fare
structures that precipitated from that moment.
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1986: Loretta Martin
Loretta Martin’s dynamic efforts contributed to the formation of the Rocky
Mountain Business Travel Association, which ultimately become the model for—yet
always an incubator of independent thinking from—the local chapters of the
National Business Travel Association and what is now the Global Business Travel
Association. She was an innovative travel manager for Gates Rubber Co.
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1987: Kathleen Fanger
Kathleen Franger built a local National Passenger Association chapter and
created a corporate travel department at Applied Materials Inc.
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1988: Carol Deurr
Working at United Banks of Colorado in 1988, Carol Duerr was one of the driving
forces in developing the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and the
Rocky Mountain Business Travel Association.
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1989: Eileen Wingate
Eileen Wingate upgraded Harvard University’s travel management program by
inaugurating discount airfares on several carriers, a milestone for
college/university travel managers; implemented expense automation and
corporate card programs and negotiated several innovative hotel deals.
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1990: Carol Ann Salcito
Carol Ann Salcito consolidated $160
million in worldwide business travel expenses for United Technologies Corp., made
the business case to implement a $40,000 travel program education video for
travelers, created an international hotel program, implemented quality control
systems and revamped United Teletech’s 28-member travel council. Carol went on
to found and act as president for consulting firm Management Alternatives. She
retired in 2015.
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1991: Peter Buchheit
Black & Decker’s Peter Buchheit implemented a travel policy and corporate
card program, developed a travel council, consolidated travel agency and car
rental vendors and saved $1 million in the process. He later helped found what
became known as the Business Travel Coalition.
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1992: Denise Ryan
Vice president of corporate support services for Citibank North America, Denise
Ryan implemented the bank’s first travel policy, a preferred vendor program and
conducted a massive travel agency consolidation that reduced business relationships
with 600 agencies down to four. Her program rationalization saved the bank $13
million in the first year.
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1993: Joe Monaghan
While working for Dr Pepper/Seven Up Cos., Joe Monaghan negotiated airline and
preferred hotel deals and a frequent flyer reimbursement program—and added $1
million in sales by making preferred airlines carry company products. He achieved
the lowest average ticket price of any in-plant structured operation in the country.
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