NBTA Honors Concur’s DePasquale with Allied Member of the Year Award
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) today presented its 2008 Allied Member of the Year Award to Tom DePasquale, Executive Vice President of Technology, Concur. The award is given each year at the NBTA International Convention & Exposition to an NBTA Allied Member who demonstrates unwavering dedication to the managed travel industry and whose actions over the previous year have significantly advanced the business.
Los Angeles - The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) today presented its 2008 Allied Member of the Year Award to Tom DePasquale, Executive Vice President of Technology, Concur. The award is given each year at the NBTA International Convention & Exposition to an NBTA Allied Member who demonstrates unwavering dedication to the managed travel industry and whose actions over the previous year have significantly advanced the business.
DePasquale has been a consistent supporter of NBTA and its industry-leading events around the world. He has attended and been a speaker at numerous NBTA events, including the Business Travel Financial Forum in New York, the UK Corporate Travel Think Tank in London, the Mexico Corporate Travel Conference in Mexico City, Corporate Travel & Technology World in Shanghai, Latin American Corporate Travel & Technology World in Sao Paulo and Crossroads Milan: Paragon Business Travel Conference & Expo. His personal participation and the consistent support of his company have contributed significantly to NBTA's successful expansion of its world-class education and networking operations into key world markets.
As a member of the NBTA Allied Leadership Council, DePasquale has been key voice for the Allied community on a board-level council. In that role, he has visited many of NBTA's U.S. chapters, enhancing the relationships between NBTA's grassroots U.S. chapters and its national and global organizations.
Scott Solombrino, President of the NBTA Allied Leadership Council (ALC) and President & CEO of Dav El Chauffeured Transportation Network, said, "Tom is a successful entrepreneur. He built a business from the ground up -- and he's the first one to tell you that he did it by working closely with NBTA to develop relationships with the buyer community. He has honored that success by contributing his time and expertise to help NBTA continue to grow and continue to meet the evolving needs of the global business travel community. I am honored to present the NBTA Allied Member of the Year Award to my friend and colleague Tom DePasquale."
DePasquale was founder and CEO of Outtask Inc., creators of the Cliqbook online corporate travel booking tool. Outtask was acquired by Concur in 2006 and today he is the Executive Vice President of Technology at Concur. He is also Chairman of Ride Charge, which this year is a first-time participant in the NBTA Convention. DePasqual is a graduate of the University of Virginia, with over 25 years in the software business, including 10 years in the travel industry.
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates – NBTA Asia Pacific, NBTA Canada, NBTA Mexico and NBTA USA – serve a network of more than 15,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 4,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$200 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 10 million business travelers within their organizations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.
Widely recognized as the must-attend event for business travel buyers, suppliers, industry leaders and business travel journalists, the 2008 NBTA International Convention & Exposition will be held in Los Angeles from July 27-30. More than 6,000 travel professionals are expected to take advantage of the convention's programming, designed to empower attendees to maximize value for their companies, including more than 40 seminars on the most important topics in business travel, more than 460 companies exhibiting in the Expo and countless opportunities for networking with peers. For details, visit www.nbtaconvention.org.