Questex Appoints Gideon Dean, EVP, Travel Media Group
Tagged: Advertising, Insurance, Marketing, Press-Releases, Travel, UKQuestex Media Group, Inc., a
global, diversified business-to-business media company announced today it
has named Gideon Dean, a 25-year travel and hospitality industry veteran,
its Executive Vice President, Travel Media Group, which includes Travel
Agent, Luxury Travel Advisor, and Home-based Travel Agent magazines, Travel
Agent University, TravelAgentCentral.com, the Premier Hotels & Resorts
directory, Five Star Alliance and additional related digital media
products. Dean joins Questex September 2 and will be based in Alexandria,
Virginia.
“We are very pleased to have an executive with Gideon’s background and
industry experience joining Questex to lead our travel industry team. We
have successfully completed significant product development, launch and
acquisition initiatives during the last year enabling us to further
strengthen our position as the most comprehensive integrated B2B media,
information and transaction platform serving the travel industry,” said
Kerry Gumas, Questex President and CEO. “The addition of Gideon to our
senior management team demonstrates our continued commitment to serving the
travel industry — professionals, suppliers and consumers alike — in new
and innovative ways. Gideon brings a customer-focused vision, extensive
hospitality and travel market knowledge and an impressive background in
electronic distribution and internet marketing to the role, as well as a
clear understanding of our clients’ and customers’ objectives and the
know-how to best align our resources to serve them.”
Dean joins Questex from TIG Global, LLC, a provider of interactive
marketing services for the hospitality and travel industry, where he was
Senior Vice President of Global Hospitality Sales & Marketing. Before
joining TIG Global, Dean operated in key sales and executive management
roles over a ten-year career with Pegasus Solutions, one of the largest
third-party marketing and reservation providers in the world. At Pegasus
Solutions, he ran international operations from the London office before
moving to the US to lead the worldwide sales, account management and
service delivery functions for all Pegasus’ products and services. Dean
also has a background in hotel operations, including five years with
Southern Sun Hotel Corporation in South Africa. He has also held management
positions with Utell International and Reed Travel Group for six years.
Source: PR Newswire Advertising
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