Business Travel News has named Oracle senior director of travel, meetings, sourcing, data and card services Ralph Colunga the 2007 International Travel Manager of the Year.
Colunga, won this year's award for not only spearheading a massive, rapid multinational consolidation and reorganization into a cohesive global structure that is on pace to reduce travel operating expenses by 40 percent by the end of May
(BTN, Sept. 10), but also for starting and facilitating an ongoing benchmarking effort with travel buyer peers, said
BTN editor-in-chief David Meyer.
During the announcement of Colunga's honor at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives' Global Education Conference in Munich, Meyer commended him for "championing the follow-the-sun approach to travel management, rapidly building an organizational structure to support it, leveraging the company's global resources and leading peers in defining and sharing valuable benchmarking information."
Colunga previously was recognized by
BTN as a 2004 Best Practitioner for his work at former employer Cisco
(BTN, July 5, 2004).