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Leadership
Sam S. Jain Founder & Executive Chairman
Sam S. Jain is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Fareportal. After beginning his career in travel, Jain quickly noticed the inefficiencies inherent in the offline processes of the wholesale travel industry. Recognizing the opportunity, he began work to automate and digitize wholesale travel ticket purchases. He launched his first brand Farebuzz which was directed towards B2B customers… read more
Werner Georg Kunz-Cho
Vice Chairman
Werner G. Kunz-Cho is the Vice Chairman of Fareportal, the travel technology company powering seven global travel brands including CheapOair.com and OneTravel.com. Kunz-Cho is responsible for the managing the vision and continued growth of Fareportal and its brands. He has over 35 years of experience in the travel industry including serving as the CEO of OneTravel.com prior to its acquisition by Fareportal. Prior to joining Fareportal, he was also Head of Operations at Travac Charters, General Manager North America at Swissair’s charter division Balair/CTA, Director North America at City Bird Airlines and Vice President of Business Development North America at Lufthansa Systems.
Sandeep Gill
Interim President & Chief Financial Officer
Sandeep Gill joins Fareportal as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He brings a wealth of experience to this role, having served in several senior financial and operational leadership roles over the past 15 years. He has significant financial leadership experience spanning the education, recruitment, services, advertising, and alternative investments sectors, and has consistently been a driver of sustainable growth.
Sandeep previously worked at leading firms such as Maxim Partners (Education Canada Group), MediaMath Inc., Abdiel Capital, and McKinsey & Company in financial leadership roles. He obtained an MBA in Finance from INSEAD in 2003 after attending The Wharton School as part of the Insead-Wharton Exchange program. Prior to that, he completed his Masters in English Literature and Bachelors in Nautical Sciences in India.
Sudev Balakrishnan
Chief Digital Officer
Sudev Balakrishnan is Chief Digital Officer at Fareportal. In this role, Sudev leads a global organization and is responsible for the oversight, strategic direction, and outcomes for all Fareportal brands across Product, Engineering, Technology and AI/Data Science.
Prior to Fareportal, Sudev served as SVP, Head of Product at Worldpay, one of the world’s largest payment acquirers processing trillions of monetary transactions. In this role, Sudev was responsible for leading product strategy, execution, product design and user research functions. Prior to joining Worldpay, Sudev served as Chief Product Officer at Stash, one of the fastest-growing consumer investing and banking platforms in the U.S., pioneering the future of financial services. Sudev has held roles heading product and a member of the executive team at Grubhub Inc. and served as vice president of product for XO Group’s commerce and registry business. Sudev also held key leadership roles at Bluefly, BT London, Redback Networks and Motorola.
Sudev holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Victoria in Canada and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Kanpur.
Andrew G. Bush
Chief Information Officer
Andrew has been leading Technology, Operations, and Data functions within the Financial Services industry for over 20 years. Most recently, as the Head of Technology for Lazard’s $1.4 billion M&A and Restructuring Advisory business, Andrew was responsible for all aspects of technology including strategy, product management, engineering development, and support.
Before his service with Lazard, Andrew served as the Head of Reference Data Strategy at Citigroup. Prior to Citigroup, he served as the Global Program Manager at Credit Suisse for the Securities Reference Data transformation initiative.
Andrew has a master’s degree in business administration from NYU Stern School of Business and a master’s degree in engineering from Cambridge University, England. Born in England, he moved to New York in 2004 and now lives with his wife Lori and two children in Summit, New Jersey.
Robert Esposito Sumner
Chief Operations Officer
Robert Esposito Sumner (Rob) is Fareportal’s Chief Operations Officer (COO). He oversees all global customer service operations including customer satisfaction and agency sales within Fareportal.
Rob has diverse leadership experience with more than thirty years of successful accomplishments in strategy, operations, technology, product development, data science, and program management. As an accomplished COO and CIO, he has significant experience in the growth of organizations ranging from 500 million to 2 billion in revenue by driving customer focused solutions, customer quality, and market-driven innovative products and services. He has also led the strategic and tactical growth of multi-national organizations with operations and technology infrastructure across India, the Philippines, Europe, and the United States.
Arnold Walter
CEO, Farebuzz
Walter is CEO of Fare Buzz with over 20 years of flights industry experience and deep knowledge of managing end to end flights, consolidator operations, pricing, business development, sales and marketing functions. His immense knowledge in the flights vertical serves as a valuable resource and will collaborate with our global operations teams.
Scott DeAngelo
Chief Commercial Officer
Scott brings a wealth of experience in strategic, data-driven marketing initiatives and loyalty programs. His career spans over 25 years, with his most recent experiences being Chief Marketing Officer at Allegiant Travel Company (2018-2024) and Head of Product, Pricing and Data Science at Worldpay (2011-2018). In addition, Scott also served as a member of the board of directors for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, as well as Head of Global Consulting at Acxiom Corporation. Scott began his career at McKinsey & Company.
Scott earned a master’s degree in marketing from Northwestern University (Go Cats!), and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and in economics from the University of Southern California (Fight On!).
Jeremy Wee
Head of People & Culture
Jeremy is passionate about building and transforming HR organizations and has worked with private and public companies across industries, including travel tech & consumer, from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to joining Fareportal, Jeremy was the Chief People Officer at NewtonX, a B2B Market Research Technology company, and was a former management consultant. He started his career in Technology consulting with Siemens Singapore, and KPMG Asia Pacific, but was attracted to the challenges of organizational & people topics, and post MBA continued his career in consulting at PwC and McKinsey & Company.
Jeremy holds an MBA from NYU Stern, and a Master of Biomedical Engineering and Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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