Worktopia Appoints Business Travel Veteran to VP Corporate Market Development Post. NEW YORK – December 31, 2007 - Worktopia, Inc., provider of the first and only online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, business centers, airport lounges and other venues, today announced the appointment of travel industry veteran Peter McElynn to the position of Vice President – Corporate Market Development. “We are very pleased to have Peter join us in enabling the online marketplace for corporate meetings” said Brian McCabe, EVP Sales and Business Development of Worktopia. “Peter will head the company’s corporate channel marketing team including promotion of our programs designed to satisfy corporate demand for real time procurement, measurement and management of simple meetings. The company’s corporate meeting booking service for simple meetings is being offered through GetThere, Travelport and other corporate booking tools and travel management company distribution partners, as well as through direct corporate solutions.” McElynn began his travel industry career at United Airlines and later moved to BPF Travel as Director of Sales until it was acquired by American Express in 1985. He spent 15 years in sales management positions with American Express’s Corporate Services division – most recently serving as Vice President of Strategic Business Development. Mr. McElynn’s experience also includes positions as VP-Business Development for Saturn Reservations (now GT3), WorldTravel-BTI (now BCD Travel) and as SVP of Sales & Market Development for Galileo International (now Travelport). “I am very excited to be joining the Worktopia team” said McElynn. “The company offers an unrivaled technology service for corporate meeting planners, providing them with an ability to book simple meetings, catering, AV equipment and even room nights in a single on line session, in an offering that automates the last remaining frontier in the travel management and distribution system.” About Worktopia Worktopia, Inc., founded in 2004, allows meeting planners to search, compare and acquire simple meetings on line in over 2,000 hotels, conference centers, business centers and airport lounges in 65 countries. The Worktopia® meeting space booking engine can be found at www.worktopia.com, and in private label versions in hotel, airline and other third party web sites. The company is institutionally financed by a consortium led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. For more information visit http://www.worktopia.com Contact: Elizabeth Gaerlan M. Silver Associates Inc. for Worktopia, 212-754-6500, ext. 229, e-mail: elizabeth@msilver-pr.com |
