Secret Escapes appoints new CFO
Members-only travel and experience company Secret Escapes Group has appointed Andy Botha as chief financial officer.
He joins from ZPG, where he was group CFO for three years.
ZPG focuses on providing users with access to information such as sold house prices, area trends & statistics and current value estimates for domestic properties in the UK
At ZPG, Botha oversaw the successful financing and integration of its acquisitions, up until its sale to Silverlake for £2.5 billion in May 2018.
He has over 17 years’ experience working with high growth digital, e-commerce and leisure businesses and has also held senior roles at Betfair, lastminute.com and Holiday Autos.
Secret Escapes co-founder and CEO Alex Saint said: "Since founding in 2010, we have significantly increased the size and scale of the business and we now operate several market leading travel and experience brands in over 22 territories, with over 1,000 employees globally.
"Andy’s experience of working with digital and travel and experiences businesses will be particularly relevant as we focus on strengthening our presence in our operating markets, integrating acquisitions, including most recently TravelBird and EML, and growing the business."
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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