Mary Ellen Hess
Kayak for Business has hired travel management company veteran Mary Ellen Hess to lead its global sales team, the company announced on Tuesday.
Hess joined Kayak for Business on Nov. 2 as global head of sales, a new position for the corporate travel management platform. She will lead global the company's global sales strategy as it expands in the U.S. and Europe as well as with midmarket buyers, according to the company.
For the past six years, Hess has been with Corporate Travel Management as EVP of business development, where her team averaged more than $200 million in new business each year over that period, Kayak for Business said. That's part of her several decades in the industry, including leadership roles at TMC technology platform Tramada Systems, HRG, American Express Global Business Travel and BCD Travel, where she was a founder of its Advito consulting arm.
"Mary Ellen knows corporate travel inside and out," Kayak for Business SVP Eva Fouquet said in a statement. "She brings strong commercial leadership, deep industry relationships and a real understanding of buyers, because she's spent her career working with them."
Hess reports to Fouquet in her new role.