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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Organizer

Online payment service provider

Sponsor

Official Hotel

Media Partner

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Name: Martin Symes
Job: CEO
Company: Wego.com

Martin Symes
Wego.com
CEO

Martin joined Bezurk (now Wego.com) in March 2006 and with nearly 15 years of travel industry experience, the last six focused on the online travel space, is the veteran of the Bezurk team.

He was previously Executive Director, Commercial for ZUJI, where he was instrumental in establishing and building the business and brand to become Asia/Pacific's leading full service online travel retailer, with operations in six countries. Prior to ZUJI, he was a key member of the team involved in bringing Priceline's buyer-driven e-commerce model to Asia.

Martin has also held senior commercial roles at British Airways and American Airlines, where he was Managing Director, Asia Pacific from 1997-99.

Outside of the travel industry, Martin has significant experience in the financial services sector having held various positions with HSBC, Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments.

He has an MA degree in from Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School.

Martin is an avid traveler, having visited almost 100 countries, and a keen, but still-not-terribly-good, golfer. He is married and has a three-year-old son who has already been to 12 countries!