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FRED L BEAN, REBEL-IN-CHIEF
Fred L. Bean has more than 15 years’ experience in the hospitality technology industry. Prior to founding REBEL, he served as Vice President of Hotel Business Development for Cendant Corporation with direct responsibility for the management of the merchant model hotel programs of Orbitz, Cheaptickets, Lodging.com, Neat Group, and Galileo.
Before Cendant, Fred served as Vice President of Hotel Relations for Travelweb LLC, a joint-venture between Hilton, Hyatt, Intercontinental, Marriott, Starwood, Pegasus Solutions, and Priceline. In this role, he led Travelweb's efforts to change the landscape of online hotel bookings. Under his leadership Travelweb became the largest automated merchant hotel distribution company (by # of participating hotels) at a record pace by contracting what was at that time a market leading 15,000 hotels in less than two years.
Fred has also worked at Travelocity.com where he was Senior Manager for the Merchant Model Vacations product. Prior to Travelocity.com, he spent years in the hospitality technology and online distribution industry with WorldRes.com, Sabre, and Hyatt Hotels, holding positions in reservation sales, customer service, call center management, operations, product management, systems development, and sales engineering.
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