Girish’s strengths emerge from his ability to focus on long-term strategic ideas and industry predictions. The last fifteen years of this overall experience has been spread out across the Aviation Industry, specialising in airline and airport business; driving dynamic growth, aligning business turnarounds, launching new global ventures and building focused sales & marketing organizations. His last professional assignment before launching ‘TravelSpends’ was with ‘Go Airlines’ as their Chief Commercial Officer. He also held the position of Head of Airline Marketing and Aviation Contracts, with ‘Bangalore International Airport Limited’. His core responsibility was aviation business development and formulating aero marketing strategy for the airport.

He has demonstrated his ability to create and mobilize cross functional teams to drive collaborative business-academic studies that drive revenues and enhance services. Suraj was the Co-Head of Corporate Travel business at Thomas Cook and his responsibilities included airline and GDS contracting for ‘Thomas Cook’. He has also held positions at ‘American Express’ where he helped leverage T&E spends for their key multi-national customer base and also sold the first meeting card in India to a global corporation. He has experience in account management and leading large operational teams to drive excellence.