Jens Uwe Parkitny

Investor in Myanmar (Travel) as well as various consulting assignments for eCommerce- and digital media start-up companies.

CEO, Allegiance Marketing (Gourmet Plus) Pte Ltd, Singapore - a subsidiary of Accor, a world-leading hospitality group. Gourmet Plus developped a dining app for restaurant discovery and realtime bookings. Within 20 months, the venture went from a one-man-show to a team of 20 digitial experts that launched 3 applications (mobile app, website and web app for restaurants to manage bookings & customer data) under the newly created consumer brand "Dish Cult" in New Zealand on November 2019.

Leading digital marketing and distribution for Accor Hotels Asia Pacific, the fastest growing hotel operator in the region. Responsible for all web site sales (accorhotels.com and brands.com) in altogeher 8 x geographic online point-of-sales as well as for managing and developing high performing, KPI-driven online marketing teams in Australia, New Zealand, India, SE Asia, Japan, Korea and China.

Responsible for building the affiliate partnership business for Expedia Inc in Australia and Asia-Pacific (Japan/Korea/SE Asia and India), based in Hong Kong from 2008-2011 and since Nov 2011 in Singapore.. Member of Board of Directors at Elong, China (since May 2009).

Full P+L responsibility, building the brand and the business in Germany and Austria incl. financial planning, strategy and marketing, managing a local POS team of 30

responsible for Product Development & Production, managing local product development budget (lower 7 digits) as well as relations to external technology partners and a production team (6 heads); responsible for Advertising Sales (1 head) and Business Operations (external fulfillment via TRX)

Responsible for local production budget, development of German POS specific requirements, local site operations and content management.

Responsible for planning testing and coordinating the technical launch of Expedia.de (September 1999) as well as for launch-partner acquisitions, content management, web design, localization and editorial planning.

Working on assignements and projects for consumer travel and travel trade media in Germany and in Singapore; professional journalistic assignments in South East Asia, the Caribbean, South Africa and Europe.

Responsible for editorial planning and production of the weekly German travel trade magazines "Touristik Aktuell" and the monthly supplement "Asia Pacific News".