Gerard Quirk

VP Global Travel Sales & Marketing

Avis Budget Group

29 years in the travel industry

How did your career evolve and how did you
choose your career path?
I moved from Operations to Training to Marketing to Marketing and Sales through various countries where I got to experience new cultures and new disciplines came with each opportunity.

What is the greatest value gained from your TIA membership?
Exposure to international partners, customers and markets.

What is the greatest challenge you have faced in your job?
Maintaining a focus on the international market in a largely domestic-focused organization.

What has been your greatest success/achievement?
Increasing business for 10 consecutive years ahead of passenger growth

If you could have dinner with any three people, past or present,
who would they be and why?
Thomas More: So some of that reasonableness and humility would rub off.
Erasmus + J.P. Sartre: To learn from their discussion about the value of self.

List two things that you absolutely could not live without.
An outdoor escape and my family.

TIA would like to thank Gerard for providing us with a perspective of one of the travel industry's leaders. He has been a great supporter of TIA in the past and we certainly look forward to sharing many more years with him.

If you, or anyone you know, are a TIA member and would like further information on our new TIA Member Profile program, please contact Helen Maplesden at hmaplesden@tia.org.