Travelport Appoints Stephen Shurrock as Chief Commercial Officer

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Stephen will join Travelport in January from Telefonica, where he currently manages the global Consumer Division. His prior roles with Telefonica include CEO of O2 Ireland and CEO of Telefonica's New Digital Business and Innovation division where Stephen was responsible for establishing and running digital businesses to take advantage of new growth markets in security, advertising, financial services, over the top content and big data. Before joining Telefonica/O2 in 2001, Stephen was CFO of UK-based web portal Excite.

Stephen has also held board positions for Telefonica Digital, San Francisco -based Tokbox, and Axonix, the specialist RTB mobile ad exchange. He has also held a non-executive director role at Monitise PLC and continues to be a non-executive director for Travelodge UK.

Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry.  With a presence in over 170 countries, over 3,500 employees and 2014 net revenue of over $2.1 billion , Travelport is comprised of:

Travelport is headquartered in Langley, U.K.  The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol "TVPT".

Kate Aldridge , Vice President, Corporate Communications,
Tel: +44 (0)1753 288 720
kate.aldridge@travelport.com