Thomas Cook drafts in digital ‘gurus’ to help turnaround
Thomas Cook Group has set up a special taskforce to help drive its online development and advise it on digital trends.
The 12-strong team, called the Digital Advisory Board (DAB), is made up of a mixture of internal people and ‘gurus’ from the digital world.
DAB will be chaired jointly by Harriet Green, Group CEO and John Straw.
According to Thomas Cook, Straw is an "acclaimed Search Engine marketer and digital marketing entrepreneur with a tradition of developing innovative products and profitably selling them to global technology giants that include Microsoft".
"A vital element in our transformation is the development and implementation of our digital strategy," said Green.
The twelve members of the DAB are:
Simon Darling, webProduct expert and CEO at Jack & Anna Group and founder of Quiet Riots
Tom Wood, user experience ‘guru’, partner at Foolproof
Laurence John, venture capitalist, founder and CEO at Project_Elpful
Marco Ryan, ecommerce guru, partner/managing director for Accenture Interactive
Emre Berkin, non-executive director and former Microsoft chairman Middle East and Africa and vice-president Europe.
Harriet Green, Group CEO
Peter Fankhauser, CEO Continental Europe and UK
Michael Tenzer, CEO Continental Europe
Mike Hoban, sales marketing and eCommerce director
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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