BTN Names Intel's Stowe 2008's Top International Travel Manager

Business Travel News named Intel global strategic sourcing mobility manager Megan Stowe the 2008 International Travel Manager of the Year yesterday during the opening session of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives global conference in Rome.

Editor-in-chief David Meyer said BTN named Stowe "for leading in the development of a sophisticated, strategic, locally sensitive approach to multinational travel management, expanding its the scope under the banner of mobility services and heading arguably the most active laboratory in testing the bounds of travel management in the past year."

Previous winners of this award include Oracle's Ralph Colunga, Philips Electronics' Peter Sijbers, GlaxoSmithKline's Janan Johnson, ChevronTexaco's Nancy Godfrey, General Electric's Keith Mullineux, Ericsson's Brigitte Ringdahl, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons' Earl Foster, Asea Brown Boveri's Thomas Faller, A. B. Electrolux's Jo-Achim Hamburger, BP's Allen Grimley and Siemens' Hanna Murphy.

ACTE also gave awards during the conference, attended by more than 1,000 people, for advancing the industry to Prism's Herman Mensink and for corporate social responsibility to AT Kearney's Margaret Hansen and the International Union of Railway's Margrethe Sagevik.