TravelCLICK | Management Team

Robert Post, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Bzdawka, Chief Operating Officer
Helen Wallace, Chief Financial Officer
Jan Tissera, President, TRAVELCLICK International and Executive Vice President, Demand & Distribution
Christopher Rockett, Executive Vice President, Americas
Max Rayner, Senior Vice President, Product Engineering
John Hach, Senior Vice President, Digital Agency
Jerome Wise, Vice President, Global Internet Marketing Services
Erik Lindquist, Vice President, Business Intelligence
Esther Kantner, Vice President, Human Resources
Dave Mitzner, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances

Robert Post
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, drives TRAVELCLICK’s overall strategic direction. He is a business veteran with over 20 years of executive experience in the travel and hospitality industry, as well as in home security and defense electronics. Bob joined TRAVELCLICK as Chief Financial Officer in May 2004, where he contributed to TRAVELCLICK’s growth and strong financial performance.

He has served on the company’s Board of Directors since May 2005. Before joining TRAVELCLICK, he was the principal of Pconsulting LLC, an independent business consultancy to Fortune 500 and fast growth companies. He is also a former executive of MICROS Systems, Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Bob is also a board member of Avatech Solutions, a systems integrator for CAD/CAM solutions, and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, a nationally recognized teaching hospital. In 2007, he was recognized with the CEO of the Year Award from the Illinois Information Technology Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jeff Bzdawka
Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for TRAVELCLICK's American operating groups located in Schaumburg, Illinois, and Houston, Texas. He also provides functional direction to the international operating groups located in Barcelona, Spain, and Melbourne, Australia. Jeff was formerly the Senior Vice President of Service Delivery for Pegasus Solutions, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he was responsible for account management, service implementation, and customer service.

Before his work at Pegasus, Jeff was with Security Capital Group, where he served as Vice President of Strategic Information Systems and Chief Information Officer of Homestead Village hotels. Jeff's career includes a focus on electronic distribution, with 12 years in management positions with SABRE Decision Technologies and Hyatt Corporation. Jeff is recognized for his expertise in customer service and technology-intensive operations within the hotel industry. He holds a degree in hotel, restaurant and institutional management from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Helen Wallace
Chief Financial Officer, oversees all of TRAVELCLICK’s global financial operations as well as spearheads strategic initiatives focused on enterprise integration and international standards compliance. A hospitality industry veteran, she has extensive public company CFO experience and a proven background in financial management and global business expansion.

Prior to TRAVELCLICK, she was CFO and Corporate Treasurer for American Skiing Company, a multi-property resort company. An expert in international business expansion, previous positions include CFO of Cyrano Sciences, Inc., Vice President & Director of Citigroup’s Asia Business Development/Mergers & Acquisitions group, and International CFO with Hubbell, Inc. She also has over nine years of experience in public accounting including time with Touche Ross. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from University of California, Los Angeles and a B.S. in Accounting from University of Southern California.

Jan Tissera
President, TRAVELCLICK International and Executive Vice President, Demand & Distribution, directs TRAVELCLICK's operations in the Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa regions as well as leads the management of its global demand and distribution solutions. An experienced international hotelier and hotel industry consultant, Jan advises clients on how to maximize their performance in electronic distribution channels.

Before joining TRAVELCLICK in 1996, he was the Director of Rooms/Reservations for Hyatt International, where he oversaw worldwide hotel reservations, global distribution, consortia marketing, revenue and rate management, guest recognition programs, and hotel room operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. In this role, Jan was responsible for rapidly expanding Hyatt's worldwide reservations offices and for attaining Hyatt International's number one position in Global Distribution Systems (GDS) worldwide.

Christopher Rockett
Executive Vice President, Americas, directs TRAVELCLICK's sales activities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Before joining TRAVELCLICK in 1999, he served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for REZsolutions, Inc., where he was responsible for the sale of the company's portfolio of reservation, technology, and marketing products to the hotel industry.

Chris has over 25 years of sales, marketing, and operations experience in the travel industry, beginning his career with TWA in Boston. He has also held positions with The Hertz Corporation, Loews Hotels, and Anasazi, Inc. Chris is a graduate of Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.

Max Rayner
Senior Vice President, Product Engineering, is responsible for the development and delivery of TRAVELCLICK’s technology platforms and services, helping our customers maximize technology driven competitive advantage. His focus is on ensuring the innovation, global expansion, quality, and cost effectiveness of TRAVELCLICK's solutions. Max has more than 20 years of global experience leading Product Engineering, R&D, and SaaS/Cloud Services.

Before joining TRAVELCLICK in 2010, he served as the Chief Technology Officer at Travelzoo, a leading global publisher of travel deals, where he enabled Travelzoo’s global expansion and created Fly.com, a leading meta-search engine. Prior to Travelzoo, Max was EVP of Products and Services at SurfControl, where his innovations and execution helped lead the company to a turn-around culminating in a successful sale at a 63% stock premium. He was also Vice President of Systems Architecture at Salesforce.com, where he led the complete re-architecture and successful re-engineering of Salesforce.com's award-winning, on-demand CRM service.

Max has a BA from Dartmouth College and received his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

John R. Hach
Senior Vice President, Digital Agency, manages the company's full-service Digital Agency, including web design, search marketing, pay-per-click and behavioral advertising, as well as its Global Distribution Systems travel agent media products. He joined the company in 2004 and has over 30 years of ecommerce marketing experience within the travel industry. Prior to TRAVELCLICK, John held executive positions with Galileo, Cendant and The Hertz Corporation.

John currently serves as a guest lecturer and member of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration's Master of Management in Hospitality Career Track Advisory Board. He is a popular hospitality conference speaker and is often cited in industry publications and textbooks. John graduated from Chicago State University and received Certified Travel Industry Executive Accreditation from The Travel Institute. He has been recognized by the National Business Travel Association as Allied Member of the Year and as a travel visionary by Business Travel News.

Jerome Wise
Vice President, Global Internet Marketing Services, leads TRAVELCLICK’s global digital agency services that help hotels maximize their online presence and convert bookings on the Web. Through his leadership, TRAVELCLICK has developed an integrated suite of best-in-class solutions for hotel Internet marketing, including a search marketing relationship with Google and the industry’s first social media optimization solution for hotels.

Jerome has more than 25 years of experience in the travel industry, specializing in distribution and ecommerce for the past 15 years. Before joining TRAVELCLICK, he served as Director of Channel Marketing for Hilton International and also as Airline Sales and Marketing Manager for Galileo International. Jerome attended Bournemouth University in the UK.

Erik Lindquist
Vice President, Business Intelligence, heads TRAVELCLICK’s Business Intelligence Business Unit, including product management, product marketing, partner relationships, product/service design and data stewardship.

Prior to TRAVELCLICK, he worked at Siebel Systems and Oracle Corporation for ten years where he held various leadership positions, including managing the product management and strategy team for the market-leading Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, running the inbound licensing group at Siebel, and working in key roles within the product management and product marketing functions on the Siebel Sales product line, Siebel’s flagship sales force automation solution. Other previous positions include working at Johnson & Johnson in the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions group and within the Finance group at J&J’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare and J&J * Merck Joint Venture.

He earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Japanese and Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Esther Kantner
Vice President, Human Resources (HR), leads TRAVELCLICK’s strategic HR initiatives to support and develop the company’s growing and increasingly indispensable employee base worldwide. Esther has over 20 years of management experience in domestic and international environments across multiple industries. Most recently, she held the top HR position with ATCO Power, a global utility company with over 8,000 employees.

She was responsible for workforce assessment and strategic HR planning to address hiring, turnover, and strategic high-growth issues. Esther has also held key HR positions with Constellation Energy, The Home Depot, Central Parking Systems, Amergen, and Husky Oil. Esther holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Alberta.

Dave Mitzner
Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, leads TRAVELCLICK's relationship development efforts with ecommerce, data, and media product partners supporting the world's leading portfolio of information, ecommerce, and advertising products for the hospitality industry. Dave has more than 20 years of travel industry experience including senior roles in product development, product marketing, advertising, promotion, and general management.

Before joining the company in 1996, he was the Director of North American Advertising for United Airlines. Dave holds a master's degree in management from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University.