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Media Contact: Don Munro Tel: 516-784-9068 mailto:dmunro@partnershiptc.com For Immediate Release

Tony O’Connor Joins Partnership Travel Consulting as APAC Regional Director

– Addition of Australia-based Travel Management Expert Further Expands PTC’s

Representation in APAC – Princeton, New Jersey, August 25, 2015 – Partnership Travel Consulting is pleased to announce that Tony O’Connor has joined the Asia-Pacific leadership team as Regional Director. “Tony brings exceptional expertise and experience helping companies across the region build and expand their travel management programs,” said PTC founder and CEO Andrew Menkes. “Business travel is growing rapidly across Asia, and companies operating there are hungry for guidance around such areas as travel policy development, supplier negotiations and technology and reporting.” Tony is the Founder and Managing Director of Melbourne-based Butler Caroye Asia Pacific, the region’s leading independent travel management consultancy. Since establishing the business in 1998, he has assisted major corporations and institutions in over 120 travel procurement projects, with a total spend of over $2 billion. His expertise covers airline, travel management companies, technology, car, card, accommodation, expense management and internal process, strategy and policy. Butler Caroye Asia Pacific won the Best Consultancy Award from btTB, the foremost Australian business travel association, for all three years of the award.

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The company was also the first consultancy to be inducted into the btTB Industry Hall of Fame.

Tony has been a committee member on the boards of both the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), and was the builder and deliverer of the GBTA Corporate Travel Executive (CTE) certificate course, delivered in five cities. Tony is a frequent speaker and moderator at large industry conferences across Asia-Pacific. Tony has an Honors Degree in Economics from The University of Melbourne.

About Partnership Travel Consulting

Partnership Travel Consulting (PTC) is a travel management group with extensive experience in travel sourcing and T&E consultancy. Since 2001, PTC has been recognized in the industry for providing customized solutions to our clients.

Our consultants are renowned leaders from various sectors of the market and our areas of expertise include: supplier negotiations, technology and data consolidation, business process reengineering, meetings management, benchmarking, and expense management systems integration.

Founder and CEO Andrew W. Menkes is recognized as the first travel manager to be accredited by the Airlines Reporting Corp. as a Corporate Travel Department (CTD). In 2014, he was inducted into the BTN Group’s Business Travel Hall of Fame, the first corporate buyer to receive this recognition.

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