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Onboard Retail Solutions expands team with Air and Rail IT specialist – 22/04/09

Published: 22/04/09

Source: ©The Moodie Report

By Melody Ng

New Head of Delivery Deborah Collin
UK. Onboard Retail Solutions has announced the appointment of Deborah Collin as Head of Delivery.

Collin’s responsibilities will include managing the delivery team to ensure that projects are delivered to customers on time. She will also ensure that implementations achieve the required business benefits. She will be based at Onboard’s head office in Bristol.

Collin brings over 20 years of travel industry experience to the company, having specialised in business and IT management for tour operations, airline and rail. She joins the company from National Express East Coast where she managed the implementation of onboard retail systems on 46 trains.

Before that Collin spent eight years at First Choice, two of those as Head of IT for First Choice Airways, during which time she implemented OnBoard POS on aircraft. She is an experienced project manager and has managed many large hardware and software projects over multiple sites, Onboard said.

Collin commented: “I am delighted to be joining the team and, as a previous customer, am confident of bringing valuable insight from ‘the other side of the fence’. This is an exciting time for the industry, where the focus is clearly and firmly on increasing onboard revenue – an objective that Onboard Retail Solutions is ideally placed to help its customers achieve.”

Onboard Retail Solutions Sales and Marketing Director Dan Hayter said: “We are very pleased to welcome Deborah to the Onboard team. She brings a fantastic wealth of experience to the business in both rail and air and is already proving a highly valuable member of the team. Our mission at Onboard is to put together the most experienced, dynamic and creative team in the business and with the addition of Deborah, we are now pretty unbeatable.”

About Onboard Retail Solutions

Onboard Retail Solutions is a leading supplier of onboard point-of-sale technology designed to maximise ancillary revenue. The company works with over 20 airline and rail customers worldwide including British Airways, Cyprus Airways, Etihad Airways, FlyBE, National Express, Monarch Airlines, Spanair, Thomson Airways and Royal Air Maroc.

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