It's time for the travel industry to soar.
Meet The Core Management Team
A TEAM OF TRAVEL, BLOCKCHAIN AND TECH EXPERTS.
Extensive experience founding, operating and investing in Travel, Airlines, Technology, Venture Capital and Blockchain companies.
Vision-driven enthusiastic and serial entrepreneur. Within the travel business he founded ASATEJ and Almundo, one of the largest online travel companies in Latam reaching almost $ 500 million in GMV. He recently sold the company to CVC Corporation for $ 75 USD Millions. He also founded two hospitality companies and has been CCO of Argentina´s main airline. Founder and non executive general partner of Newtopia, an early stage $50M Latam VC.
Metaverse/ Web3 pioneer with deep expertise working in blockchain, NFTs, and VR/AR-related fields. Former Accenture Director, founder & advisor of companies like VRTIFY, RealityCode, Small Ax Creative, HookSounds, and SpaciaLabs, among others.
He was identified as “one of the 5 global minds that are revolutionizing the audio tech” (Mashable 2016) and one of the #100 US most innovative Startup CEOs in 2015 by Inc.
Federico has more than 12 years of experience in the tech industry successfully developing in-house branding, marketing and communication teams in high growth start-ups and tech scale-ups.
He was most recently CMO Europe at Berlin based decacorn and DAX listed Delivery Hero. Prior to this role, Federico held the position of Global Vice President of Marketing at Delivery Hero. He was also CMO at PedidosYa, largest last mile delivery company in Latam as well as CMO of global online classifieds platform OLX.
Erika has more than 20 years of experience in both Travel and Technology Industries. Described as visionary and innovative, she has successfully led commercial teams through transformation and crisis management while driving revenue growth and global expansion.
Erika most recently served as VP and RGM for North America at SABRE Travel Solutions. She successfully helped the organization reposition its commercial approach towards distribution and technology solutions for airlines. Prior to that, she was the VP for Travelport in the US and Latin America, responsible for transforming customer engagement models, product adoption and defining bespoke technology solutions. Her career began at Aeromexico where she held multiple roles spanning from network planning, revenue management, alliances and eventually resulting in her transition to commercial as SVP of International Sales and Alliances.
More than 12 years of professional experience in tech companies. He participated in many projects in different industries, focusing on project analysis, design, development, and delivery. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires, which provided him with a strong academic background in his career. He is passionate about programming and building high-quality teams. Last 5 years he worked in Almundo.com, where he held different roles, reaching the role of CTO.
Francisco has worked 5 years for American Express before founding Avantrip.com, one of the leadings OTA in Argentina. After he sold that company he became the CEO of CVC Argentina, the largest travel group in Argentina that combines pure OTAs and omnichannel agencies.
He perfectly combines the skills of an entrepreneur with the experience of a corporate professional.
Experienced Chief Operating Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the leisure, travel & tourism industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, E-commerce, Sales Management, and Commercial Aviation. Strong product management professional graduated from Universidad del Salvador.
Reimagining Travel, Together!
The Covid-19 pandemic has heavily impacted the global multi-billion travel industry, revealing an urgent need to embrace the latest technologies to respond quickly and effectively to market challenges.
Lead by a team of tech and industry veterans with a track record of pioneering change, TravelX was created to accelerate the evolution of the travel industry into Web3, allowing a more transparent, agile, efficient, and frictionless distribution model of travel capacity.
The new industry’s blockchain infrastructure benefits both customers and airlines, by giving travelers access to better products, with clear terms and conditions, and tools to freely dispose of their travel assets, and by reducing suppliers’ distribution costs and inefficiencies, ultimately improving their profitability.
Advisors and Early Backers
A NOTABLE GROUP OF TRAVEL INDUSTRY AND TECH LEADERS EARLY BACKERS.
A group of Travel Industry and tech experts actively involved (investment and strategic definitions) creating trustability and value to the company from day 1.
Board director at United Airlines & RealSelf. Former COO at Uber & CEO at Orbitz. Extensive track record operating and governing large and rapidly growing technology-enabled companies. He also served in a variety of roles at Expedia from 1999 to 2006, including as President of Expedia Asia Pacific
Alex de Gunten is the Business Development Officer for HEICO Aerospace Corporation and Advisor to the Executive Board of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA). HEICO Aerospace is focused on PMAs, OEM and DER Repair, Defense, and Distribution products and services. Previously he served as Executive Director of ALTA, VP International of LanChile as well as holding different leadership roles at Canadian Airlines International.
Computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps. Rasmussen holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was the director of engineering for Facebook in London.
Julian Cook has 25 years of experience in the airline industry. He started his professional career as an Associate in the Global Transportation Team of The Chase Manhattan Bank in 1995. He was founder, CEO and Chairman of Flybaboo and in 2016 launched Flybondi.
Telecommunications Engineer. Director of the Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics Area of UCEMA University. Director at agrotoken.io, Director of IoF, Director at Digas Capital (Crypto Asset Management). Technological Consultant, specialist and author of numerous papers areas linked to smart cities, digital video, blockchain and technology-based business models.
