With over 27 years experience in the travel industry, Greg started from the ground up, straight out of college, assisting with the administration of the Travel Weekly Travel Club for Touchdown Holidays, to designing their brochures, advertising, marketing, then on to business development and senior level management roles culminating with a role as General Manager of the company.He then moved to one of the UK's leading hotel representation companies, Resort Marketing International in 2011 and spent almost 7 years account directing some of the UK's top selling Caribbean hotels / hotel groups. Greg developed sales with the top selling tour operators in the industry and launched many new hotels and groups to the market from the ground up to generate significant incremental turnover.And in tour operating, having set up a small, niche, direct interline tour operation whilst at Resort Marketing International, he and the Managing Director of Elite Island Resorts (UK) launched the world's first truly online bookable interline tour operation - Interline by Elite.Greg left Resort Marketing International in July 2018 to join Blue Bay Travel as Product Management Director. Having worked with the team at Blue Bay for the majority of his 7 year tenure at Resort Marketing, Greg had a good grasp and full understanding of the deals and offers required to get big results utilising Blue Bay's industry leading technology platforms and marketing channels. This put him in the perfect position to sit the other side of the table and to drive those strategies for Blue Bay to bring other hotels and destinations into the fold.Acting as Blue Bay's CEO's number two in the business now, Greg co-drives the overall growth strategy of the company, reporting directly into the group CEO.Greg has a proven track record for strong negotiating, starting, maintaining and growing professional and effective supplier / client relationships and for helping to grow the businesses he has worked for.He is extremely driven, dedicated, loves a challenge and will take anything on in this respect relishing the moment when the results come to fruition.Specialties: Supplier negotiations / relationshipsCreating mutually beneficial commercial dealsMarketingProduct procurementSales developmentAccount directionTeam leadingThe interline marketNew business growthGeneral internal troubleshootingGeneral ManagementB2B & B2C global sales development