Accelya has named Sam Gilliland as CEO of the airline know-how firm, taking up from Jim Davidson.
Gilliland, who was CEO of Sabre for 10 years till 2013 and beforehand held senior positions at Travelocity and Sabre Airways Options, returns to journey having frolicked throughout roles in non-public fairness, monetary companies and fintech.
Jim Davidson is moving into the function of vice chairman after solely eight months as CEO and can proceed to advise Accelya’s board.
Davidson had been CEO of Farelogix when it was acquired by Accelya in 2020.
Gilliland feels airline distribution has not modified that a lot since he stepped down as CEO of Sabre in 2013.
“This stuff take time. If you happen to return to the times of paper tickets and the work that was achieved to maneuver to digital tickets, it does take time as a result of there may be a whole lot of heavy lifting to be achieved to get from one place to a different so it is not shocking to me that it hasn’t modified dramatically,” he says.
“We have been truly speaking then about lots of the issues which can be getting carried out at the moment.”
He provides that the priorities in his first couple of months at Accelya will embody spending time with the groups at its numerous places of work and speaking to clients.
Accelya was acquired by Vista Fairness Companions three years in the past.
