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Tom Klein |
Tom Klein is executive vice president for Sabre Holdings and group president of the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions businesses. He was named to this position in July of 2004.
The Sabre Travel Network business provides the world’s largest computer reservations system to more than 53,000 travel agency locations, delivering content from airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines and more. Airline Solutions is the industry’s premier provider of airline decision support software, passenger service solutions and consulting services.
Prior to this, Klein was senior vice president for Sabre Holdings and president of Sabre Airline Solutions. Under his leadership, Sabre Airline Solutions experienced consistent growth and improved profitability in a financially constrained market. Other highlights include the deployment of Sabre eMergo, the most successful application service provider (ASP) model in the industry; a repositioning of the consulting practice to better leverage its unique airline industry expertise; and the recent rollout of SabreSonic, the first new generation suite of open-systems passenger services technologies that provides options for both an integrated end-to-end passenger solution or an individual component approach.
Previously, Klein was president of Emerging Businesses for Sabre Holdings, where he oversaw the launch of a business-to-business e-marketplace and operated a Web hosting business. Other responsibilities included corporate business development and the integration of acquired entities into the Sabre Holdings portfolio.
Earlier roles include senior vice president for Sabre Travel Network, North America, vice president of Product Marketing, and first director general of Sabre Sociedad Tecnologica, a Mexico-based joint venture company owned by Sabre, Aeromexico and Mexicana.
Before joining Sabre, Klein held a variety of sales, marketing, and operations positions at American Airlines and Consolidated Freightways, Inc.
Klein serves on the Executive Board of Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and the Hewlett-Packard Global Customer Advisory Board. He graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
About Sabre Travel Network
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the world's leading global distribution system (GDS) enabling agents at more than 50,000 agency locations worldwide to be travel experts. The Sabre GDS, the first system to connect the buyers and sellers of travel, today includes more than 400 airlines, approximately 75,000 hotels, 28 car rental companies, 13 cruise lines, 35 railroads and 220 tour operators. Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, the leading Web-based corporate travel reservation technology, and Jurni, the unique leisure travel agency consortium that enables members to sell more products from preferred travel suppliers using sophisticated market intelligence.
About Sabre Holdings
Sabre Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com.
