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Tom Klein is executive vice president for Sabre Holdings and group president of the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions businesses. He was named to this position in July of 2004.
The Sabre Travel Network business provides the world’s largest computer reservations system to more than 53,000 travel agency locations, delivering content from airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines and more. Airline Solutions is the industry’s premier provider of airline decision support software, passenger service solutions and consulting services.
Prior to this, Klein was senior vice president for Sabre Holdings and president of Sabre Airline Solutions. Under his leadership, Sabre Airline Solutions experienced consistent growth and improved profitability in a financially constrained market. Other highlights include the deployment of Sabre eMergo, the most successful application service provider (ASP) model in the industry; a repositioning of the consulting practice to better leverage its unique airline industry expertise; and the recent rollout of SabreSonic, the first new generation suite of open-systems passenger services technologies that provides options for both an integrated end-to-end passenger solution or an individual component approach.
Previously, Klein was president of Emerging Businesses for Sabre Holdings, where he oversaw the launch of a business-to-business e-marketplace and operated a Web hosting business. Other responsibilities included corporate business development and the integration of acquired entities into the Sabre Holdings portfolio.
Earlier roles include senior vice president for Sabre Travel Network, North America, vice president of Product Marketing, and first director general of Sabre Sociedad Tecnologica, a Mexico-based joint venture company owned by Sabre, Aeromexico and Mexicana.
Before joining Sabre, Klein held a variety of sales, marketing, and operations positions at American Airlines and Consolidated Freightways, Inc.
Klein serves on the Executive Board of Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and the Hewlett-Packard Global Customer Advisory Board. He graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
About Sabre Holdings Corporation
Sabre Holdings connects people with the world’s greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. Sabre Holdings supports travelers, travel agents, corporations, government agencies and travel suppliers through its companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, the company has approximately 9,000 employees in 45 countries. More information is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com. | 