Tom Kershaw. Image: Nick Morrish Travelport’s Tom Kershaw discusses the ways that emerging tech is affecting the travel sector and how the company is addressing sustainability in this space. Tom Kershaw is the chief product and technology officer at global traveltech company Travelport. Kershaw has more than two decades of experience leading innovation, technical strategy and execution within global technology and internet organisations, and has worked on mobile application development, advertising, data science and large-scale data processing. Prior to joining Travelport in 2021, he served as chief technology officer at advertising platform Magnite, and he has also held various leadership positions at companies such as Google, Ericsson and VeriSign. In his current role at Travelport, Kershaw is responsible for the company’s global technology and product teams while overseeing the development and delivery of products and solutions. “Since joining Travelport, I’ve expanded our engineering and product development team in order to accelerate the delivery of tools that help our agency customers seamlessly search, shop and service travel across a broad array of content types,” he says. “My team and I are responsible for continually building new tools and enhancing features that agents need to operate as modern retailers and provide […]
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