Join Andy Menkes, Founder& CEO, Partnership Travel Consulting who will share his insights on how to build a business case for your C-Level executives.  Travel Management is not universally understood, and the language at the C level does not always align with travel terminology.  Andy will take you through the steps of how to build a powerful case and prepare for your face-to-face meeting on the top floor. In addition, Andy will guide you through understanding your data, reporting and communication with perspective on how to analyze data and report the results.

Mr. Andrew W. Menkes has a 30-year history in the travel industry, with a varied background in Airline, Travel Agency, and Corporate Travel Management. Andrew started his career with TWA and during a 9-year period he worked in various departments in Passenger Reservations. He served as TWA’s Regional Manager of Interline Sales, and later as the first Regional Manager of Automation Sales during the start of GDS installations at travel agencies and corporate accounts.

Menkes founded and served as CEO of Priority Travel, Inc. a New York based agency with International offices in London and Hong Kong. He also held various regional and executive positions for a number of Mega Travel Agencies. 

Menkes was Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Administration for A.C.T.E. (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) and a member of its Executive Committee.  He has also served on the Technology Committee of the Corporate Travel Association of New York, as well as on the Board of Directors of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA).

 He joined Republic New York Corporation in January of 1997 as its first Vice President of Global Travel Management.  Menkes has received recognition as the first Travel Manager to be accredited by ARC as a Corporate Travel Department (CTD). He also pioneered the first corporate-direct (Internet-based) Electronic Ticket purchase with British Airways and initiated a similar web-based program with Jet Blue in the U.S. One year after Republic merged with HSBC, Menkes founded Partnership Travel Consulting (PTC).

 In 1998 he was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Travel Executives. In 1999, Business Travel News named Menkes Travel Manager of the Year. He was once again recognized as among the Top 25 Most Influential Travel Executives in 2000.  He currently sits on a number of advisory boards including Business Travel News, Frontier Airlines, and ARC. In 2003, Andrew was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Business Travel Management (IBTM).  Andrew retired from the IBTM Board and is the creator of the Managed Travel Index^sm a unique travel industry benchmarking tool that was recently released by NBTA.