Ram Badrinathan

Senior Director, Research, PhoCusWright Inc.
WHEN: Monday, November 12, 2007 - Thursday, November 15, 2007
TOPIC: The PhoCusWright Conference

As senior director, research, Mr. Badrinathan’s focus will be on PhoCusWright’s custom research projects as well as being focused on the rapidly changing travel distribution markets across Asia Pacific in conjunction with the team of analysts based in India, China and Japan. Ram will also be developing regular market updates on key markets (e.g. New Zealand, China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) in 2008 in addition to India. He has authored several PhoCusWright reports: Asia Pacific Online Travel Marketplace: Tapping a Complex Market and Asia Pacific Online Travel Marketplace Second Edition (two reports on travel distribution trends in the APAC region), European Online Travel Marketplace: Focus on the United Kingdom, The Emerging Online Travel Marketplace in India, India Offshoring and the Virtual Business Offering and co-authored Corporate Travel Distribution: Key Markets. Ram has participated in strategic consulting engagements for global travel management companies, GDS market leaders and transaction services companies in Europe, North America and Asia and has moderated the APAC panel at The PhoCusWright Conference for three years. Well-known publications often quote Ram (including The Wall Street Journal, Straits Times Singapore, and Time) and he is frequently invited to address audiences at travel industry conferences. Ram holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surat, India and an MBA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.