About GBTA Australia
As part of the world’s largest business travel association, GBTA Australia is dedicated to supporting the growth, innovation, and collaboration within Australia’s corporate travel industry.
GBTA Australia provides a dynamic platform for business travel professionals to connect, learn, share knowledge, and stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends and developments shaping the future of business travel. Through regional events, educational programs, and exclusive member benefits, we are here to enhance your expertise and help you leverage the power of a global network. Join over 8,500+ GBTA members worldwide and access valuable resources, industry connections, and global insights.
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Why Join GBTA
We believe business travel is a fundamental force for good. Meeting face to face deepens relationships, fosters collaboration, and develops culture in ways that technology alone can never truly replicate. It drives progress for businesses, governments, economies, and people.
As the barriers and challenges facing business travel evolve and change, we must continue to innovate and set new standards as an industry, bringing many perspectives together under one roof. GBTA is the platform for all sides to come together to tackle how travel can adapt to and drive dynamic transformations in the workplace, from the changing way people work, to new attitudes towards managing risk, to improving sustainability.
Leadership
The Advisory Board is a group of appointed buyer and supplier members of the network with the goal of creating membership benefit strategy, ensuring GBTA Australia remains led by buyers and monitoring that any activity undertaken by the network is in line with created strategy and objectives.
Lisa Batchelor
Board Member
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Global Business Cochlear
Agnes Tsoa Lee
Board Member
Corporate T&E Program Specialist
Optus
Tanaz Pochkhanawalla
Board Member
Senior Commercial Manager | Strategic Partnering, Sourcing and Property
AMP
Veronica Bergel
Board Member
Travel Lead (Australia & Asia)
Herbert Smith Freehills
Jim Crowder
Board Member
Strategic Sales Director, APAC
Enterprise Mobility
Karryn Cutcheon
Board Member
Senior Director, Global Sales Australia and New Zealand
Marriott
Anthea Dimitrakopoulos
Board Member
GM Brand and ESG
The Ascott Limited
Anna Fisher
Board Member
Vice President – Asia Pacific
Frosch Travel
Melanie Giles
Board Member
Travel Services Manager
Origin Energy
Ashley Houston
Board Member
Senior RSM, Global Safety and Security, Global Travel Risk
Bain & Company
Emma Jones
Board Member
Director of Sales – Corporate, Government & Airlines, Pacific
Accor
Kurt Knackstedt
Board Member
Head of Sales – Pacific
Avis Budget Group
Bill Kokovas
Board Member
Senior Manager, Travel & Events
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
Sue McEvoy
Board Member
Head of Sales ANZ
FCM
Andy O’Mara
Board Member
Head of Travel & Expense
Canva
Mike Orchard
Board Member
Head of Performance
Festive Road
Siobhan Prideaux
Board Member
Senior Sales Director, APAC
BCD Travel
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