Jesper Söderström new CEO at Amadeus Scandinavia
Current Marketing Director Jesper Söderström becomes new CEO of Amadeus Scandinavia, the leading supplier of IT solutions for the travel industry.
Stockholm June 22 2011: Jesper Söderström, today Marketing Director at Amadeus Scandinavia, will be the new CEO when Janchrister Egnefors leaves the company after 13 years. Jesper Söderström, 44, has more than twelve years of experience of successfully manage and support the development of new and existing companies with increased business growth as objective. During his career he has worked with business management, sales, marketing and portfolio management.
- I have been entrusted a great duty which I feel an equally great responsibility for. The travel industry, as well as Amadeus, has experienced a lot of changes over the years. To lead the company and help it take advantage of these and future changes in the industry is a job I look forward to. And I have many good employees at my side, which makes it easier, says Jesper Söderström.
Jesper Söderström began his career in the travel industry back in 1992 at the business travel agency Nyman & Schultz. After several years at American Express Travel, he worked between 2000 and 2005 as a product division manager at SMART Scandinavia, a company within the SAS group, which was acquired by Amadeus in 2002. Between 2005 and 2009 Jesper Söderström was responsible for the global business area Low Cost Carriers at Amadeus IT Group. For the past two years he has worked as Marketing Director for Amadeus Scandinavia. In this role, Jesper Söderström was responsible for establishment and management of the product and service portfolio, and the company's channel strategy and brand building.
- Jesper is a results-driven person with the right combination of energy, experience and leadership qualities. He also has a proven ability to build long-lasting and profitable relationships both within enterprises and with customers and other partners, which is just as important, says Holger Taubmann, Vice President of Northern, Eastern, Central & Southern Europe (NECS) at Amadeus.
Jesper Söderström starts as CEO on August 1.
Contact Information
Jesper Söderström
Director, Marketing Division, Amadeus Scandinavia
Phone: +46 8 458 05 00
E-mail: jesper.soderstrom@sca.amadeus.com
Bite Communications
Phone: +46 8 402 01 00
E-mail: amadeus@bitepr.se
Amadeus is a leading transaction processor and provider of advanced technology solutions for the global travel and tourism industry.
Customer groups include travel providers (e.g airlines, hotels, rail, ferries, etc.), travel sellers (travel agencies and websites), and travel buyers (corporations and individual travellers).
The group operates a transaction-based business model and processed 850 million billable travel transactions in 2010.
Amadeus has central sites in Madrid (corporate headquarters and marketing), Nice (development) and Erding (Operations – data processing centre) and regional offices in Miami, Buenos Aires, Bangkok and Dubai. At a market level, Amadeus maintains customer operations through 73 local Amadeus Commercial Organisations covering 195 countries.
Amadeus is listed on the Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia stock exchanges and trades under the symbol “AMS.MC”. For the year ended 31 December 2010, the company reported revenues of EUR 2,683 million and EBITDA of EUR 1,015 million. The Amadeus group employs over 10,130 employees worldwide, with 123 nationalities represented at the central offices.
To find out more about Amadeus please go to www.amadeus.com.
