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SPEAKERS
Rachel Grier, IDeaS
Rachel Grier is the Managing Director, Asia Pacific for IDeaS – A SAS COMPANY, responsible for growing IDeaS Asia business and enhancing the company’s leading brand reputation in the dynamic Asia hospitality sector. Rachel previously worked as the area director of sales and marketing for the InterContinental Hotel Group in Japan where she oversaw a major restructure and was responsible for the sales, marketing and revenue results and has held senior leadership roles within organisations such as Per Aquum Resorts, Spas, and Residences, Rendezvous Hotels International and FCm Travel Solutions (Flight Centre).
Brice Bay, EnVeritas Group
Brice is an entrepreneur whose passion for travel, business and smart content lies at the heart of EnVeritas Group. His driven vision of trust and truth as the bedrock of successful content marketing has led EVG to become an industry leader for high-end multilingual content, inspiring long-term partnerships with large global brands.
 Frederick Wong, TrustYou
Frederick is the Managing Director and Vice-President, APAC for TrustYou. He is based out of Singapore and oversees TrustYou's APAC expansion plans in APAC. Prior to joining TrustYou, Frederick spent his earlier career in hotel distribution roles with some of the largest names in the hotel distribution business such as Expedia Affiliate Network, Travelocity/Zuji Partner Network and OctopusTravel.com and managed a portfolio of strategic clients in the APAC regions with a wide array of travel consumer brands such as Singapore Airlines, eLong, AirAsiaGo, TigerAir, Wego amongst many others.
 Anthony Zhang, STR Global
Anthony Zhang is the Business Development Manager of STR Global who is responsible for the company expansion in Greater China area. Before joining STR Global, he was doing project development in Langham Hospitality Group. Anthony was graduated as Master of Science from School of Hotel & Tourism Management of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Jean-Luc Chrétien, FASTBOOKING
Jean-Luc Chrétien was appointed co-CEO of FASTBOOKING in May 2015. He has 30 years of experience in the hotel industry and in distribution. He joined the Accor group in 1986 as Marketing and Sales Director, first in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific zones, and then as the head of all leisure hotels. From 1992 to 2001, when he worked at Disneyland Paris, he contributed to the amusement park’s strong hotel performance as Director of Distribution and Sales Administration. Successively Director General of Marketing and Sales for Pierre et Vacances Tourisme from 2001 to 2004, and then Director of International Distribution for the SNCF, he re-joined AccorHotels at the end of 2007 as Director of Distribution, Sales and Loyalty Programme.
 Pierre Charles Grob, FASTBOOKING
In 2001, Pierre-Charles Grob started his career with Accor in New York, where he contributed to the creation of the marketing department in North America for the Sofitel and Novotel brands. While still in New York, he joined the Monaco Tourist Office to promote this destination and its luxury hotels. Returning to Europe, Pierre-Charles was first at the Monte-Carlo SBM group in various roles – sales, marketing and e-distribution – and then joined FASTBOOKING in 2010. He began by leading revenue optimisation for the company, and then rose rapidly to manage operations in Europe. Since 2014 Pierre-Charles has been FASTBOOKING’s Director for Asia, based in Singapore.
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