Travelport appoints Matt Minetola as Chief Information Officer

Travelport (TVPT), a leading Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment, and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry, announced today the appointment of Matt Minetola as its new Chief Information Officer. Minetola, who takes on responsibility for leading Travelport’s Technology organization with immediate effect, brings more than 27 years of global experience of large-scale technology leadership gained in both the hardware, software, and banking industries. Most recently, he was CIO for HP Financial Services.

Gordon Wilson, President and CEO for Travelport, said: “Matt joins Travelport in a key role for our business at an important stage in our growth as a company. Our Travel Commerce Platform is by definition a technology-led offering where we are breaking new ground in the delivery of exciting innovations in airline merchandising, hotel distribution, corporate travel management systems and B2B payments. Matt’s experience and expertise of driving change, managing scale and complexity across both applications development and infrastructure gained in very relevant industries to our own make him a great addition to our team.”