Management Alternatives Adds Travel Mgrs., Global Partners To Its Roster

<B> Management Alternatives Adds Travel Mgrs., Global Partners To Its Roster</B>

By Sarah Welt

<I>Stamford, Conn.</I> - As a way to handle its growing business and bolster its expertise, travel management consulting firm Management Alternatives Inc. has added two former travel managers to its core team.

Will Tate, former global travel manager at Carrolton, Texas-based Dresser Industries, is now vice president of the Southwest region, and Lois Biondo, former manager of special travel projects for H.J. Heinz Co. in Pittsburgh, is vice president of the Southeast.

Until the addition of Tate, a certified public accountant with a concentration in internal auditing, and Biondo, "I was the only one with a corporate travel manager background," noted president Carol Salcito, who came to Management Alternatives from United Technologies Corp.

In related news, the firm's global consulting consortium, Management Solutions International Group, recently added partners in Paris and Amsterdam, and is looking for additional partner organizations. Salcito said Japan has become a "hot market" and Latin America is likely "the next group we will bring on."

Paris-based JK Associates joined MSIG in January, and Travel Consultants & Management in the Netherlands joined last June.