Surrey business leader announces board appointment

Surrey business award winner, Global Travel Management, one of the UK’s leading business travel management companies, this week announced the appointment of Kelly Packington to its board.

Kelly, who lives in Addlestone, near GTM’s Woking head office, started working for the company as a Senior reservations consultant in 2003 and became an Office Manager in 2013. Her appointment as GTM Operations Director will be effective with immediate effect from 9 December 2016..

GTM Managing Director, Scott Pawley says: “The role of Operations Director is an important part of our road map for the future so we’re delighted that Kelly taking up the post, our first board appointment since 2003. Kelly has worked her way through the ranks and proved to be a great asset to the company. As a manager she has been very effective and I know that Kelly is going to be a valuable addition to the Board team.”

In addition to winning the title of Toast of Surrey Best Business with a Turnover over £5million in Toast of Surrey, GTM also won for the second year running, the title of Business Travel Agent of the Year, awarded by the UK’s largest independent travel agent partnership group Advantage Travel Partnership. GTM also had the added kudos in 2015 of seeing Kelly win the title of AFP, Champion of the Year.

“We are at the top of our game as a corporate TMC,” says Scott. “I belive that as a company we will benefit from Kelly’s appointment as her fresh perspective will help add value to our decision-making. I think that ensuring we have a diverse team at the helm helps us to remain relevant and vital and tapping into our own high quality internal pool of talent is a no-brainer.”