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Kevin Short was named senior vice president of Pegasus Solutions' Reservation Services in 2001. Prior to joining Pegasus in 1999, Short spent more than two years at America West Airlines/America West Holdings where he served as vice president of revenue management and then as chief operating officer of The Leisure Company, the corporation's leisure travel subsidiary. From 1987 to 1996, he worked for American Airlines in a variety of management positions including managing director of international pricing and yield management and president of Fly AAway Vacations, now American Airlines Vacations. Short also worked for Continental Airlines and Texas International Airlines in various technology and market planning positions. Short holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas in Austin.
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Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (www.pegs.com) is a leading global provider of hotel reservations-related services and technology. Its services include central reservations systems; electronic distribution services that connect more than 45,000 hotels to the Internet and to the global distribution systems (GDS); travel agent commission processing and payment services; the Utell marketing and reservation representation service (www.Utell.com); and PegasusCentral(TM), a Web-based enterprise solution with property management applications. Pegasus' customers comprise the majority of travel agencies around the world, including the top 10 largest U.S.-based travel agencies(2); more than 48,000 hotel properties around the globe, including all of the 50 largest hotel brands in the world based on total number of guest rooms(3); and thousands of Web sites/services have their hotel reservations Powered by Pegasus(TM). In addition to its corporate headquarters in Dallas, Pegasus has 20 offices in 11 countries, including regional hubs in Phoenix, London and Singapore. The company's stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol PEGS.
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Kevin Heilbronner is the US Editor for wiredhotelier.com and hospitalitynet.org, providing streaming multimedia-content for these websites. Based outside of Washington DC, Heilbronner has worked with Hsyndicate to conduct interviews at several hospitality trade shows in the US and Europe over the last couple of years. His column and content are featured in the Hospitality Net weekly newsletter. A familiar voice in Washington, DC, Heilbronner is the stadium announcer for the NBA's Washington Wizards, WNBA's Washington Mystics and WUSA's Washington Freedom. He resides in Centreville, VA and can be reached via email: [email protected].