Terry Jones

TERRY JONES

Net worth : USD $2.2 Billion

Place of Birth : Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK

Country of Residence : Fort Worth, Dallas, TX.

Terry Jones , 54, who is the founder and former CEO of Travelocity.com and CIO of Sabre, Inc is now devoting much of his time to speaking and sharing his unique insights on the future of business through the new consulting firm – Essential Ideas.

Jones, who took an idea and created a business that now has over 40 million members and over $5 Billion in travel bookings can bring your audience first hand knowledge of creating a national brand, thriving in rapidly changing markets and using technology for competitive advantage. His programs are both informative and mind expanding. He challenges audiences to think outside the box and envision the future.

An accomplished speaker, equally at home in a small corporate setting or a national keynote, Jones can challenge your group to understand. Terry Jones is the perfect fit for the “Memoirs from Mexico” series, a visionary who has built his career around travel and a taste for adventure. As founder and former CEO of Travelocity.com, chairman of Kayak.com, and former CIO at American Airlines/Sabre, Terry has an impressive track record of leading companies whose innovations rocked the travel industry.

Terry started his career as a travel agent, and In the ’70s, he helped create one the of the fastest growing business travel companies ever formed. In the ’80s and ’90s Terry led product development, programming and computer operations at American Airlines SABRE, the travel computer system that became a Harvard case study on automating customers. In 1996, he founded Travelocity.com and took it from a team of 10 to a public company with more than $3 billion in travel sales.

Terry Jones has worked in small startups and the corporate world and has a unique perspective on innovation, offering audiences real world examples of how to create a culture of innovation in their companies.

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