Mario Segovia Sman joins Accelya’s Middle East sales team and will be based in Dubai. He joins directly from Amadeus, where he was most recently the Director Airline Account Management and Sales for the Gulf, North Africa, and Turkey.
MADRID, SPAIN – Accelya, a leading provider of technology solutions to the travel industry, announced the appointment of Mario Segovia Sman as VP Commercial, Middle East.
Mario will be based in Dubai and will form part of the sales team for the Middle East.
He joins Accelya from Amadeus where over the last 20 years he has held a variety of roles, with the last ten of those based in Dubai. At Amadeus he was most recently the Director Airline Account Management and Sales for the Gulf, North Africa, and Turkey.
The objective of Mario’s role is to cement and grow Accelya´s footprint in the region and he will report to Bryan Porter, SVP Commercial, EMEA.
This appointment forms part of Accelya’s journey of continuous improvement and to promote the transformation of the air transport industry for the better – with a focus on talent as the most important asset to achieve that.
“Right now is the most exciting time ever to be in airline technology. Why? Because the travel industry is recovering and airlines are showing a real commitment to transforming their retailing experience.” commented Mario Segovia Sman, VP Commercial, Middle East, at Accelya. “So I simply couldn’t resist the chance to work at the company right at the forefront of leading this change. Accelya’s pioneering technology allows airlines truly to pursue their retailing ambitions in an agile and unrestrained manner”.
“It gives me great pleasure to welcome such an airline technology veteran as Mario to our sales team,” commented Bryan Porter, SVP Commercial, EMEA, at Accelya. “His many years of experience will be of exceptional benefit to our partners across the whole Middle East region just as the industry is reactivating and airlines are embracing NDC.”
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