Justified Travel | Invisible Carbon Budgeting | Travel's ROI | Traveler Friction | Travel Procurement

In search of the business travel industry's future. Commentary on current issues, trends, and technologies.Published more than 170 articles on a wide range of topics.

* Corporate growth strategy and corporate development transactions* Corporate-airline direct booking strategy, relationships and initiatives* Machine learning-based prototypes* New product incubation* Strategy Team member

* Led the design of TRX's award-winning Airline CO2 emissions calculator.* Developed a powerful, cluster-based technique for analyzing corporate hotel spend data.* Led teams responsible for evaluating new business opportunities.* Advised CEO and Chairman on intellectual property risks and opportunities.* Authored TRX's first U.S. patent covering analysis of airline bids to corporate buyers.

Led TRX Travel Analytics, the business that I sold to TRX. Responsible for delivering unbiased, high-quality analysis of airline procurement strategies and tactics to the Fortune 1000.

Travel Analytics, acquired by TRX (now SAP Concur), provided sophisticated analysis and negotiation support to Fortune 500 firms. Our specialty is analyzing the complex structure of airline routes and pricing terms offered to large buyers of corporate airline travel. Our average client spends about $60 million a year with airlines. Our staff of strategic sourcing specialists help travel managers and procurement buyers to make smart decisions during and after their contracting efforts.

Became the firm's leading subject matter expert in strategic sourcing of the travel category. Additional expertise in corporate strategy, corporate overhead analysis, sales and distribution issues, competitive benchmarking, financial valuation, and trade flow analysis.

Built a national executive search practice specializing in recruiting senior consultants and practice leaders for the management consulting divisions of the former Big Eight CPA firms.