Travel management company Frosch named industry veteran Steve Sedgwick to the newly created position of vice president of Concur platform services and sales.

In a company announcement, the TMC indicated that the hiring is meant "to assist in the growth of [the] technology partnership with Concur." Frosch cited Concur's TripLink suite of open-booking services, adding that it "looks forward to taking a leading role in the future of managing 100 percent of its corporate clients' travel, regardless of the distribution channel." Most recently executive vice president at TravelSolutions by Campbell, Sedgwick has been a TripLink booster. In November he told The Beat that while "the GDS is a great tool ... it is incomplete." He added that he does not prefer the term "open booking," instead favoring the term "open platform ... because it says you can have multiple distribution channels under a controlled policy that is part of this platform."