Norman Rose

Senior Corporate and Technology Analyst, Travel Tech Consulting Inc.
WHEN: Monday, November 12, 2007 - Thursday, November 15, 2007
TOPIC: The PhoCusWright Conference

Norm is a 25-year travel industry veteran with an extensive background in both the corporate and leisure travel markets. As an analyst and consultant for the past 13 years, Norm's focus has been on emerging technologies and how they impact business practices in the travel industry. From 1982-1988, he held sales and marketing management positions at United Airlines and from 1989 to 1995, Norm was corporate travel manager for Sun Microsystems. At Sun, he worked with a number of third-party developers creating client/server software for the business travel market. This included early prototypes of self-booking tools and expense management systems. In September 1995, Norm founded Travel Tech Consulting, a firm that specializes in developing e-commerce and procurement strategies for travel and technology companies. Norm has been an analyst with PhoCusWright since 1999 and is the author of numerous publications and articles including Corporate Travel Technologies: Today and Tomorrow (September 2007) and Selling Complex Leisure Travel Online: Focus on Dynamic Packaging Technology (December 2004).