SiteMinder welcomes former Xero Managing Director Trent Innes as Chief Growth Officer | SiteMinder

SiteMinder bolsters leadership staff with former Xero, Apple execs for future stage of progress

Sydney, Australia – SiteMinder, the world’s top open up lodge commerce system, has welcomed former Xero Running Director Trent Innes as Main Progress Officer next a suite of group-defining award wins for the company’s resort commerce system as it enters its following growth period.

Previously the Taking care of Director of Xero Australia and Asia, Trent has more than 20 years’ encounter increasing large enterprises throughout the know-how market. All through his 8-year tenure with Xero, he efficiently scaled the business to access a lot more than 1 million subscribers. Prior to that, he held senior roles at Microsoft Australia and Infor.

Sankar Narayan, CEO & Managing Director at SiteMinder, mentioned he is thrilled to welcome Trent pursuing their partnership that assisted grow Xero into a multi-market place achievements.

“Having had the privilege of witnessing Trent’s leadership at Xero, I have observed to start with-hand his hyper-concentrate on prospects and skill to scale a world wide organization with cloud-centered technological know-how to 1 million subscribers. I am thrilled to welcome Trent to SiteMinder’s leadership crew as we continue to forge an accelerated expansion route all through a continuing reopening of vacation in 2023,” says Sankar Narayan, CEO & Controlling Director at SiteMinder.

Passionate about fostering a thriving technological know-how market in Australia, Trent was recognised for his contribution to the field when he was named the IT and Telecommunications Executive of the Year and also took residence the coveted title of Running Director of the Calendar year at CEO Magazine’s 2017 Govt of the 12 months Awards.

Of his new situation, Trent states he is enthusiastic to be a element of accelerating the expansion of a worldwide organization carving a new category for the accommodation field.

“Having watched SiteMinder’s advancement around lots of several years, I am thrilled to be becoming a member of this sort of an revolutionary organization building major moves globally, with market-leading technological know-how that truly equips and empowers hoteliers to be the ideal professional leaders they can be,” Trent claims.

In addition to Trent’s new purpose, SiteMinder’s bolstered leadership staff also includes previous Apple government Tim Howard, who joined the corporation as Chief Monetary Officer in January. Bringing more than 20 years of industrial and company finance practical experience in know-how firms to SiteMinder, Tim was CFO and COO at data analytics and AI-enabled messaging platform Ortto (earlier Autopilot), a Blackbird SaaS enterprise. Tim was also formerly an Functioning Partner with private equity business Allegro Resources, and used 11 years with Apple wherever he held various roles, together with Main Monetary Officer of the Education and Retail Channels in EMEA and Head of Commercial in APAC.

Trent and Tim be part of SiteMinder next its group-defining suite of award wins at the 2023 HotelTechAwards, together with Most effective Hotel eCommerce System, Greatest Reserving Motor for the second consecutive year and the #1 Hotelier’s Preference Award. Obtaining driven additional than 100 million reservations for hoteliers in 2022, SiteMinder was also named Ideal Channel Supervisor for the fourth consecutive yr.

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SiteMinder is the world’s foremost open lodge commerce system, empowering lodges and accommodation companies to promote, sector, manage and develop their enterprise. SiteMinder’s impressive online platform gives accommodations and lodging suppliers a thorough assortment of products and alternatives to regulate and streamline the distribution of their rooms throughout a broad variety of immediate and indirect channels, get bookings from company and talk with company. The world-wide firm, headquartered in Sydney with workplaces in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generates much more than 100 million reservations well worth about US$35 billion in profits for motels every calendar year.