HotelPlanner Announces Appointment of Santiago Vazquez Martinez to Newly Created Role of Chief Investment Officer
2024年7月15日 - 10:00PM
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Reporting directly to the CEO, Martinez will oversee
HotelPlanner’s investment strategy and portfolio globally.
HotelPlanner, a travel technology company and hotel booking
platform, today announced the appointment of Santiago Vazquez
Martinez to the newly created role of Chief Investment Officer.
Reporting directly to Co-founder & CEO Tim Hentschel, Martinez
will oversee the company’s global investment strategy and portfolio
and related initiatives to accelerate growth and profitability.
Santiago began his career as a financial lawyer for five years,
focused on the bank and credit industries. With an emerging passion
for financial markets, Santiago moved into the asset management
industry where he has spent the last 14 years, including working in
Hong Kong for seven years to open the European market for a Hong
Kong asset management firm. More recently, Santiago has worked on
business development at GVC Gaesco, a European-based asset
management company, to open their Japanese market while expanding
their Asia-Pacific and EMEA footprint.
Santiago has a bachelor’s degree from La Coruna University, a
law degree, and a master’s degree in banking, financial markets and
asset management from Bolsas Mercados Espanoles (BME). Santiago
resides in London, the headquarters for HotelPlanner’s European
operations.
“Santiago’s banking and asset management experience and
expertise, not to mention his legal acumen, will serve us well in
the coming years as we continue to grow and expand our service
offerings. And the timing is perfect because we are experiencing
unprecedented year-over-year growth right now. We’re excited to
welcome Santiago to the HotelPlanner family,” says Tim
Hentschel, Co-Founder & CEO, HotelPlanner.
“I’m honored by the opportunity to join such an amazing team of
travel and hospitality professionals. HotelPlanner is in rapid
growth mode across the globe, which is amazing to see. I’m excited
to help strengthen and align our global investment strategy as we
look to the future,” says Santiago Vazquez Martinez, Chief
Investment Officer, HotelPlanner.
About HotelPlanner
HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company and hotel
booking platform that combines proprietary artificial intelligence
and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service
network. HotelPlanner is one of the world's leading providers of
individual, group and corporate travel bookings. Founded in 2003,
HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world's largest
online travel agencies, well-known global hotel chains, individual
hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers,
corporations, sporting organizations from youth to professional,
universities, and government agencies. HotelPlanner's family of
brands includes its flagship site, HotelPlanner.com; its meetings
& events-focused sites, Meetings.com; EventConnect.com; and
VenueExplorer.com; Lucid Travel, which focuses on sports team
travel; Eventsquid, which focuses on corporate and association
event registration; and Cleverdis, a mainstay in trade show media.
Learn more at https://www.hotelplanner.com
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