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Devinder Ohri

Chief Strategist, Advisor to Founders & Technology Partner

Devinder Ohri is born & educated in Singapore, He attained GCE A Levels from Raffles Institution, BSC (Econ) Lond. (Hons) from London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London.

Since 1984, He is running his family business G.C. Nanda & Sons Private Limited – a pioneering tourism company in the Travel & Tourism industry since 1948.

Devinder is Chief Strategist, Advisor to Founders & Technology Partner of Airlines Technology.

Principle Areas of Expertise will be Tourism, Commercial Aviation, Distribution Technology, Regulatory Framework, Franchising and Brand Management of products across the Travel & Tourism Industry Value Chain.

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Matt Zito

Mentor

Matt is the founder of TravelStartups.co, a veteran travel entrepreneur, Managing Partner and Lead Advisor for Travel Startups Incubator. We are part of his incubator since May 2016.Matt brings 20+ years of experience in travel having founded and sold two travel companies, CollegeSkiTrips.com the largest youth based ski travel agency (OTA) in the U.S. and the Yellow Breeches House Fly-Fishing Lodge. Matt advised over 25 travel companies between 2013-2014, helping both angel and VC backed travel companies launch new travel brands. He has built one of the largest travel industry networks of travel CEOs and entrepreneurs in the industry. Matt leverages his contacts to help our portfolio companies gain traction for their products and services through strategic partnerships and business development deals.

Travel Startups Incubator invests $50,000 ($25,000 cash + $25,000 in-kind advisory, business development services) in the world’s most talented travel entrepreneurs and early-stage travel technology ideas. They are a unique-niche incubator dedicated 100% to travel technology startups with a focus on mobile travel technology. B2B, business intelligence, business analytics, big data, e-commerce, infrastructure, distribution, travel management, airports. B2C leisure travel, business travel, hotel, air, ground services, destination, tours and activities, advertising, marketing and video.

Varun Bansal

Co-founder
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14 years of top management experience in financial services, business development and strategy. He is known for his ability to create organization from ground zero.

Before Airlines Technology, Varun was leading national operations of Globe Capital, one of India’s biggest clearing member. He had previously lead biggest regional team of IIFL, one of Asia’s biggest wealth advisory firm.

Paras Kumar

Co-founder
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10 years of experience of leading teams in data warehousing, data architecture, programming, business intelligence and client engagement He has worked intensively on international platforms in Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.

He is NDC domain expert & strongly committed to produce a high quality product on and around NDC for all customers and stakeholders, to provide a better, more streamlined solution for the airlines booking industry.

James Paul

Chief Mentor & Partner
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James is a seasoned aviation professional with over 33 years of experience.

James spent more than 23 years in Lufthansa. He was primarily responsible for overall handling of sales and marketing activities, Corporate & Agency Sales planning, Sales budgeting, Target setting, Contract building for Swiss, United, Air Canada & Austrian besides Lufthansa in India. He also managed, coordinated and planned all sales related activities, established relationships with relevant stakeholders in agencies and corporate customers, Implemented global sales processes in the region, executed strategic sales and distribution initiatives within the region.

After Lufthansa, James founded Planit Travglobal Pvt. Ltd.and has been successfully running pan India Flydubai GSA.

He is also the Vice President, International Chamber for Service Industry for Aviation Team, and is consultant on many Aviation related projects.

Manoj Srivastava

Senior Vice President
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Manoj Srivastava is highly accomplished, Senior airlines executive with exceptional global vision , having more than 22 years of demonstrated achievements in Airlines, Airport, eCommerce, Online Travel domain including PSS, IBE, DCS, RA/RM/RI, ET, IET, IATCI, FFP, Airlines B2C, B2B, B2E, IATA-NDC, MRO (AMOS), AODB, FIDS POS, CUTE, CUSS, and others associated systems.

Manoj successfully managed million dollar projects during his carrier associated with Airlines in India , UAE and ME regions. An extensive working experience from airlines technology to customer experience while traveling end-to-end all touch point right from making booking to landing at the destination, also has extensive analytical and negotiation skills, project management, budgeting, cost analysis.

Daniel Friedli

Mentor

Daniel has been engaged by IATA as their IATA NDC Course Instructor, teaching NDC Architecture and NDC Business Value courses globally. Further, he do research and work on studies for IATA both in relation to NDC and ONE Order. He has been leading the IATA ONE Order Transition Study which will be released to IATA Members in the coming months. In the past, He has written the IATA NDC Change Readiness Guide for Airlines as a strategy support document on NDC.

Jonathan Chak
Mentor

Embarked on his entrepreneur journey since the early 2000, Jonathan has successfully created from scratch various businesses and start-ups across multiple industries and sectors, in Australia, Hong Kong and China.
With extensive management experience, Jonathan has led his own team to carry out projects for McDonald, Fujitsu, and other major international brands. In 2010, Jonathan has started a retail/eCommerce venture where it was exited at a 3x after nominated as finalist in the Australia OIRA awards and enjoyed double digit growth month on month in the first 12 months of the business.

Jonathan also has extensive experience in fund raising where he has pitched for government funding in Hong Kong to start a coffee chain business (which was exited for a profit in 12 months) as well as secured investments in a number of occasions with various start up projects.
Apart from being on the advisory board for various businesses and start-ups, Jonathan is also the Senior Advisor at Jobs for NSW, where he administers two of the major government grants program targeted at early stage start-ups in NSW. He is a frequent guest speaker at events alongside top Australian VC firms and investment groups.

Sunil Chopra

Mentor

Sunil is a veteran in the aviation business since the last 38 years having held different senior positions in airlines and IATA.

Since 2017-18 he has been supporting TAFI (Travel agents Federation of India ) and his focus is to ensure that market development in digital takes place to help sustain the agents in this high technology activity by launching TAFI connect a market place technology platform and also supports other services and service providers as a management consultant to develop NDC and help the markets develop distribution content.

Sunil till 2017 was responsible for IATA’s activities in the Cluster of countries Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Srilanka, Maldives & Bangladesh and was based in Singapore for supporting & serving Airline members & stakeholders needs. He was focused on improving the distribution support developing the market understanding of NDC and improve partnerships in the Area, promoting IATA global standards with the perspective of delivering maximum value for safe, and sustainable development of aviation.

Prior to moving to Singapore, Sunil was country Manger India & Nepal and had spent the last 12 years with IATA, he has had the opportunity to work both in the Indian domestic market with the Indian airlines as Head of short haul operations and Sahara Airlines besides British Airways World cargo as Head of operations in South Asia.

Sunil graduated from Pune University with a B Com & a MBA in marketing from Pune University. Has done a program on Airport and Airline Systems – Planning, Design & Management from MIT Boston.

Smriti Kumar

Co-founder
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14 years of rich experience in managing cross-functional and multi geographical IT programs in top companies like HCL Technologies, Sopra Steria (Formerly Xansa) and Aon Hewitt. Worked with many Fortune 200 clients.

Her expertise is in management of Project/Program; Transition/Migration; Global Service/Deliver; Client relationship and stakeholder; Change and Release; Business requirement analysis etc.

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Mentors and Advisors

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Smriti Kumar

Varun Bansal

Paras Kumar

James Paul

Manoj Srivastava

Devinder Ohri

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Matt Zito

Daniel Friedli

Sunil Chopra

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