Bill Nicholson has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer at Onyx CenterSource
Onyx CenterSource, the world's leading provider of commission payment processing and recovery solutions for hotels and travel agencies, today announced the appointment of hospitality technology pioneer Bill Nicholson as executive vice president & chief product officer. Nicholson will be responsible for the research, discovery, development and release of new products. He was a founding executive of Pegasus Solutions − an Onyx predecessor – where he led an innovative team that pioneered the development of the industry's first online global platform to manage and distribute hotel content and reservations. He later served Pegasus as executive vice president & chief operating officer. Nicholson also was the first president and general manager of Sabre Hospitality Solutions (formerly SynXis), where he led the development and deployment of central reservations systems and private-label website technology for leading hotel companies around the world. Nicholson was involved in the early stage development of HomeAway, a shared-economy vacation rental and booking company, and cofounded TripCraft, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based technology startup that developed a mobile platform for the distribution of rich hotel content and reservations. Nicholson also provided strategic consulting, interim executive and advisory services to a number of travel and technology companies, including Lanyon, Hudson Crossing, RoomKey, Sabre Holdings, Amadeus IT Group and Harland Clarke. He served Onyx as a consultant last year. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science.
