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Sabre CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Sean E. Menke is the Sabre's CEO. Sabre has 9,950 employees, of which 50 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Sabre executive team is 36% female and 64% male.
  • 62% of the management team is White.
  • 15% of Sabre management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Sean E. Menke

CEO

Sean E. Menke's LinkedIn

President and CEO of Sabre Corporation, the leading technology provider to the airline, hotel and travel industries. The company emerged after a chance meeting between executives from IBM and American Airlines which led to the creation of the first electronic ticketing system for airlines. Today, Sabre is a global company that processes over $450,000 in travel transactions per minute. This proud heritage lives on at Sabre today. I'm thrilled to be contributing to the evolution of this great brand!

Kurt Joseph Ekert

President

Roshan Chanaka Nirmal Mendis

Chief Commercial Officer & Executive VP

Roshan Mendis is a Chief Commercial Officer at Sabre Travel Network and Exec VP & Chief Commercial Ofcr:Travel Solution at Sabre. He has worked as Senior VP:Asia Pacific at Sabre Travel Network, Senior VP:EMEA & APAC at Sabre Travel Network, and President at Fitruums Pte Ltd. Roshan works or has worked as VP:Bus Dev at Travelocity.Com. He studied at William Marsh Rice University.

Shawn Williams

EVP and Chief People Officer

Shawn Williams's LinkedIn

Shawn Williams is Chief Administration Officer for LeEco North America. In his role, Shawn oversees all aspects of human resources, corporate real estate, IT, and security. Shawn came to LeEco from Samsung Electronics America where he served as senior vice president of human resources, security and general affairs for the company’s U.S. operations. He has also held senior positions at Apria Healthcare where he served as executive vice president and Chief Human Resources Officer and capped a twelve-year career at Hewlett-Packard as the company’s Global HR Leader for HP Service. During his time at HP, he also held the role of Chief Operations Officer, vice president of workforce planning and strategy, vice president of HR transformation and director of workforce development, organizational effectiveness and HR operations. Shawn has also held senior management positions at EDS, Compaq computer, Dell and Chase. In addition to his office responsibilities, Shawn is an active community member, serving on several boards of directors, including Tech Titans (North Texas Technical Leadership), Blueprint Healthcare IT, the American Heart Association and Native American Chamber of Commerce. He is also the co-founder of the Native American Education Center of Houston. Shawn earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Houston and holds executive leadership certificates from Stanford University and Babson College.

Cem Tanyel

Chief Services Officer & Executive Vice President

Cem Tanyel's LinkedIn

Cem Tanyel is the executive vice president, chief services officer, of a newly formed professional services, consulting and support organization that brings together the company's delivery and care teams together under his leadership. Tanyel's centralized organization is not only designed to generate efficiencies and improve productivity in the care and delivery of Sabre's products but is also critical to the company's success with responsibility to deliver world-class service professional services alongside its products.

David Moore

EVP and Chief Technology Officer

Douglas E. Barnett

EVP & CFO

Douglas E. Barnett's LinkedIn

Douglas Shirl Barnett Jr. (born April 12, 1960) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at Azusa Pacific University.

Joe Difonzo

Chief Information Officer

Joe Difonzo's LinkedIn

Joe Difonzo is a Chief Information Officer at Sabre and is based in Dallas/Fort Worth Area. He has worked as Senior Technical Consultant at Convergys, VP - Technology Operations at Syniverse, and VP of Advanced Development and Architecture at Syniverse. Joe works or has worked as VP:Innovation at Convergys. He attended University of Central Florida between 1984 and 1988.

Judson Wade Jones

Executive Vice President

Judson Wade Jones's LinkedIn

A global, transformational leader and general management executive with operating P&L experience across a broad range of business models and capital structures including venture backed start-ups (Benchmark Capital), private equity portfolio companies (Texas Pacific Group, Silver Lake, Oak Hill), and blue-chip organizations (Procter & Gamble and Barclays). Proven success leading an innovative global SaaS cloud software business with product, development and engineering, sales, marketing, and operations responsibilities. Operating experience across North America, Latin America, South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia serving customers in 198 countries. Extensive track record and passion for improving company performance by growing revenue, improving productivity and building effective teams across a broad range of industries including travel and transportation, technology, financial services, and consumer products. Exceptional hands-on experience using a unique combination of strategic and analytical thinking, high emotional intelligence, ability to execute, and creative problem solving to start, turn-around, and grow businesses under challenging circumstances. Core competencies include:• P&L ownership and general management• Growth strategy• Product strategy and innovation• Operations and productivity• Strategic partnerships and relationship management• Integrated marketing (B2B, B2C, direct, digital, mobile)• Organizational design/effectiveness• Employee engagement, development and cultural transformation

Scott Wilson

President

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Sabre board members

Name & TitleBio
Sean E. Menke

CEO

Sean E. Menke's LinkedIn

President and CEO of Sabre Corporation, the leading technology provider to the airline, hotel and travel industries. The company emerged after a chance meeting between executives from IBM and American Airlines which led to the creation of the first electronic ticketing system for airlines. Today, Sabre is a global company that processes over $450,000 in travel transactions per minute. This proud heritage lives on at Sabre today. I'm thrilled to be contributing to the evolution of this great brand!

Karl Ivar Peterson

Board Member

Gail Mandel

Board Member

George R. Bravante

Board Member

Hervé Pierre André Couturier

Board Member

John M. Scott

Board Member

Phyllis W. Newhouse

Board Member

Wendi C. Sturgis

Board Member

Zane C. Rowe

Board Member

Gregg Albert Saretsky

Board Member

Sabre leadership demographics

Sabre gender distribution in management team

  • The Sabre executive team is 36% female and 64% male.
  • Sabre is 36% female and 64% male company-wide.
Male
Male
64%
Company-wide: 64%
Female
Female
36%
Company-wide: 36%

Sabre executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Sabre executive officers is White.
  • 62% of the management team is White.
  • 15% of Sabre's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 52% of employees are White.
  • 17% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 15% of employees are Asian.
  • Management team
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What employees say about the executives at Sabre

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4.0
A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2020
Pros of working at Sabre

Great team work. Good environment

Cons of working at Sabre

Lack of direction for solutions, focus continually changing

Sabre benefits

The travel, and campus restaurants

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