Reporting directly to the CEO, Martinez will oversee HotelPlanner’s investment strategy and portfolio globally.

HotelPlanner, a travel technology company and hotel booking platform, today announced the appointment of Santiago Vazquez Martinez to the newly created role of Chief Investment Officer. Reporting directly to Co-founder & CEO Tim Hentschel, Martinez will oversee the company’s global investment strategy and portfolio and related initiatives to accelerate growth and profitability.

Santiago began his career as a financial lawyer for five years, focused on the bank and credit industries. With an emerging passion for financial markets, Santiago moved into the asset management industry where he has spent the last 14 years, including working in Hong Kong for seven years to open the European market for a Hong Kong asset management firm. More recently, Santiago has worked on business development at GVC Gaesco, a European-based asset management company, to open their Japanese market while expanding their Asia-Pacific and EMEA footprint.

Santiago has a bachelor’s degree from La Coruna University, a law degree, and a master’s degree in banking, financial markets and asset management from Bolsas Mercados Espanoles (BME). Santiago resides in London, the headquarters for HotelPlanner’s European operations.

“Santiago’s banking and asset management experience and expertise, not to mention his legal acumen, will serve us well in the coming years as we continue to grow and expand our service offerings. And the timing is perfect because we are experiencing unprecedented year-over-year growth right now. We’re excited to welcome Santiago to the HotelPlanner family,” says Tim Hentschel, Co-Founder & CEO, HotelPlanner.

“I’m honored by the opportunity to join such an amazing team of travel and hospitality professionals. HotelPlanner is in rapid growth mode across the globe, which is amazing to see. I’m excited to help strengthen and align our global investment strategy as we look to the future,” says Santiago Vazquez Martinez, Chief Investment Officer, HotelPlanner.

About HotelPlanner

HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company and hotel booking platform that combines proprietary artificial intelligence and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service network. HotelPlanner is one of the world's leading providers of individual, group and corporate travel bookings. Founded in 2003, HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world's largest online travel agencies, well-known global hotel chains, individual hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers, corporations, sporting organizations from youth to professional, universities, and government agencies. HotelPlanner's family of brands includes its flagship site, HotelPlanner.com; its meetings & events-focused sites, Meetings.com; EventConnect.com; and VenueExplorer.com; Lucid Travel, which focuses on sports team travel; Eventsquid, which focuses on corporate and association event registration; and Cleverdis, a mainstay in trade show media. Learn more at https://www.hotelplanner.com

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