Matt Minetola Joins Travelport as Chief Information Officer

Travelport has appointed Matt Minetola as Chief Information Officer.

Minetola, who takes on responsibility for leading Travelport’s Technology organization with immediate effect, has more than 27 years of global experience of large scale technology leadership gained in both the hardware, software and banking industries.

Most recently, he was CIO for HP Financial Services. During his 14 year tenure at HP, Minetola served in a variety of IT leadership roles. Prior to his most recent position, he spent three years leading the technology organization for HP’s print business which produced and supported all enterprise and consumer print products and consumables through direct, channel, and retail outlets. Minetola also held senior technology-centric positions with Compaq, prior to its acquisition by HP, and First USA / BankOne, where he served as Senior Vice President of Information Services and as Chief Technology Officer and acting CIO of Wingspanbank.com

Gordon Wilson, President and CEO for Travelport, said, “Matt joins Travelport in a key role for our business at an important stage in our growth as a company. Our Travel Commerce Platform is by definition a technology-led offering where we are breaking new ground in the delivery of exciting innovations in airline merchandising, hotel distribution, corporate travel management systems and B2B payments. Matt’s experience and expertise of driving change, managing scale and complexity across both applications development and infrastructure gained in very relevant industries to our own make him a great addition to our team.”