Speakers Infomation - China Travel Innovation Summit

StartUp Challenge

Startup Challenge is the most exciting part of the Summit. 6-8 selected entrepreneurs from the startup companies who are less than 12 months in existence or companies leaving stealth mode will have the chance to demonstrate their innovative solutions or products that will significantly impact travel planning, purchasing and trending.【More】

Panel of Judge

William Bao Bean
Partner
Softbank China & India Holdings

Allen Zhu
Partner
GSR Ventures

Erhai Liu
Managing Director
Legend Capital

Kevin Jin
Vice President
ChinaVenture

2008 Event

2008 China Travel Distination&Technology Summit

China Travel Distribution Summit hosted by TravelDaily is now regarded as the most prestigious event for China’s travel industry. This event is set to be the impeccable opportunity to develop your China entry strategy. 350 senior travel executives from Ctrip, Elong, Mangocity, Expedia, Google, PayPal, Rakuten【More】

Sponsorship

Sponsoring or exhibiting at this event will give you the vital opportunity of greater face to face interaction and time to promote your product or services to the people who control the distribution of travel in China.

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Official Hotel

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Name: Simon Akeroyd
Job: Vice President, Business Development
Company: Amadeus Asia

Simon Akeroyd
Amadeus Asia
Vice President, Business Development

Simon Akeroyd joined Amadeus Asia, based in Bangkok, at the beginning of 2005. Prior to moving to the Regional Asia Pacific Head Office, Simon lived and worked in Nice, France.

Beginning his career in Amadeus (France) in 1992, Simon worked in various roles within Finance and Management Accounting ranging from financial planning to valuation of intangible assets. After 8 years, he went on to create his own business focused on Management Consultancy and Private Equity in the IT & Telecom sector. It was this consultancy role that eventually led him back to Amadeus several years later.

Simon's current role encompasses developing and implementing strategies to expand Amadeus' customer portfolio and geographic scope in Asia Pacific; predominantly through Joint Venture and partnership initiatives in China, Korea and Japan.

Simon holds a BA Honours degree in International Business, speaks fluent French and currently lives in Thailand.