The Institute of Business Travel Management, the education and research foundation of the National Business Travel Association, today announced the appointments of five new members to its Board of Trustees for 2005: Fay Beauchine, vice president of sales and customer care for Northwest/KLM Airlines; Susan Jacobs, senior vice president of travel services and corporate events for Visa; Ellen Keszler, president of Sabre Corporate Solutions; Jack O'Neill, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Richard Wooten, director of corporate travel services for Lockheed Martin Corp.
The new members will begin their two-year tenures on the IBTM board this month, attending the first of the organization's biannual meetings in March 2005.
"We have a long history of having a lot of great, top-level leaders on the board of IBTM and this clearly continues that history," said Daphne Bryant, IBTM foundation director.
In addition to creating a Web-based benchmarking tool to help travel managers measure the return on investment of corporate managed travel programs
(BTN, Jan. 17), Bryant said IBTM will pursue an education-heavy agenda in 2005. "One of the things we're really working on is to continue to increase the awareness level and participation in the global leadership program, which is our partnership with the Wharton School. We're also going to continue our tradition of giving scholarships, probably at the same level that we did in 2004," she said.
Current IBTM Chair Joseph Monaghan, senior vice president of marketing and sales support for WorldTravel BTI, will continue in his role this year, as will vice-chair Hanna Murphy, vice president of Siemens shared services. Both officers will finish their two-year terms in December 2005 and the organization will appoint new leadership next January.