Murray is a travel and marketing professional, with 10+ years' experience in the tour
industry in managerial positions for several leading tour operators in Europe, Asia and
Australia. A further 5+ years in retail, wholesale and corporate travel combined
with a background and education in marketing and management. Murray is the main contact for
all commercial agreements.
Listen to Murray Decker talk about booking and reservation platforms and Tour Amigo on the TravelPreneur Podcast
Stewart
Chesterton
CTO
Stewart has worked exclusively in travel technology system development in a career spanning
more than 30 years. His dedicated experience of a constantly evolving combined landscape of
travel and technology provided Stewart opportunities to contribute
to countless Global system innovations. As one of the original founding partners of
Traveltek, Stewart was responsible for the entire product suite of the award-winning leisure
booking and mid office platform, adopted by travel
businesses in 35 countries.
Toby is an innovative marketer, specialising in digital marketing, growth hacking and
product design, who has worked across multiple industries. While managing Tour Amigo’s
marketing strategies and tactics, optimising internal processes, and overseeing
day-to-day operations, Toby has single handedly grown his own travel community on social
media exceeding a network 1.6m travellers. When he is not being a business visionary, you
will find Toby in the gym, hiking and exploring
with his drone.
Aaron has over 20 years experience in the Travel industry working for big tour operators &
travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Coop Travel in the UK. For the past 15 years Aaron has
worked within the travel technology field. Aaron is passionate about working with customers
and loves to build relationships to understand their businesses in order to implement
systems and help improve the customers experience and business efficiencies. Aaron has
successfully implemented systems and managed teams globally and in doing so has gained
valuable experience and knowledge about how the Travel industry operates across the world.
When Aaron has free time, he enjoys spending it with his family and friends, walking his
dog, football, visiting theme parks & of course traveling
Jessica is a technology and innovation executive with particular expertise in travel and
financial services. She most recently was the head of innovation at Expedia Group, and has
prior experience as CRO of Airside, VP/GM of Travel Payments at American Express, and worked
in the M&A Advisory practice at KPMG. She currently serves on the board of ViaHero. Jessica
brings a breadth of travel innovation, go to market strategy, and
growth expertise to Tour Amigo.
Key to pipeline, runway and future investment round preparation, Tony's past business
ventures include founding Odyssey Financial Management with two partners in 2003, providing
specialist financial management and investment advice. Tony sold the business
to a larger financial services business in 2011 due to this business success. Tony then
founded the Odyssey Specialist Groups, a boutique financial management and investment
advisory practice. In 2018, he was granted an Australian
Financial Services License. Tony will bring 20 years of financial and investment expertise
to Tour Amigo.
Richard
Smith
Technical Lead
Richard was one of the founding partners at Traveltek, where as Development Director and CTO
he was responsible for the key technology decisions that helped the company grow into a
worldwide business with venture funding and a growing customer base. Fresh
from consulting on a national technology project for the Scottish government, RIchard brings
his extensive experience to Tour Amigo, providing a secure and strong foundation to our
application.
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Daniel
Stewart
Lead Developer
With almost 10 years of experience in developing travel and enterprise applications, Daniel
is an expert on booking APIs, data integration and system design. As our lead developer, he
heads up our team of application engineers and designers as we seek
to revolutionise the tour booking space.
