Fredrick Sabty is the Vice President, Hospitality for Avaya worldwide. An experienced veteran of the communications, hospitality and business services industry, Frederick is responsible for delivering industry-specific solutions to the world’s hospitality providers, and is a member of the core leadership team for Avaya’s global business in his vertical. Frederick joined Avaya in early 2007,…
Frank Wolfe, CAE joined Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) in March 1991 as the association’s director of education. He became executive vice president/CEO of HFTP in 1994, and at that time was one of the youngest association CEO’s in North America. As HFTP’s CEO, Wolfe oversees the association’s operations, as well as represents the…
After having studied computer science at the University of Dortmund, Ingo Dignas co-founded protel together with Manfred Osthues in 1994. Today, as Managing Partner of protel he has well over 20 years of experience in hotel information technology. Ingo’s passion is in revolutionizing hotel IT by using mobile devices and cloud computing technologies.
Laurent A. Voivenel is the Senior Vice President, Operations & Development for Middle East, Africa & India for Swiss-Belhotel International, spearheading the group’s expansion in the region. He holds over 30 years of extensive international hotel and asset management experience with some of the world’s leading and most prestigious hospitality brands including Starwood Hotels &…
Chief Information Officer for the Habtoor Hospitality, with over 35 years of experience in the hospitality industry, combined with over 25 years of experience in IT and project management. Mr. Kamal is a leader in adopting new IT tools and services such as cloud appliances and virtual environments. He has held many executive IT positions…
Marwan Al Ali is currently the Group Chief Information Officer of Jumeirah Group, the global luxury hospitality company and a member of Dubai Holding. Marwan’s responsibility range from being a business enabler, deployment of IT cross functional solutions in this Digital age with a special focus on innovative strategies, customer centricity and driving business profitability.…
Nigel joined Marriott in April 2017 and Starwood in 1993. After moving to the UK in 1996 and holding several management positions in hotel operations, Nigel moved into hotel IT and relocated to Dublin as part of a pre-opening team. In 2002 he join the Starwood divisional office as Senior manager IT EAME and completed…
Richard joined MICROS in 1999 focusing on Fidelio installations before being a key member of the product team involved with the launch of OPERA in the UK. Since then Richard became the Hotel Product Manager for the UK & Ireland operation with responsibility for over 2,500 hotels using OPERA & legacy products. He was the…
Emilio joined m3connect in 2001 and he has more than 20 years of experience in the IT and Wi-Fi industry. Prior to this he was responsible for network design and deployment at The Cloud Networks and Mobilcom Systems. Under his direction m3connect became one of the most sophisticated Wi-Fi network provider in Europe. His main…
Dan Doney is the CEO of Securrency, Inc, a RegTech/FinTech company that democratizes access to capital markets. Securrency’s platform uses distributed ledgers and a patented compliance model for “single click” token issuance, trade, and transfer. These tokens represent a new kind of financial instrument: liquid, dividend-yielding, digital currencies with the stability of bonds, transferability of…