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Puregenie is an online recruitment agency specialising in online jobs in the travel industry . Established to cater for the increasing demand for talented people with specific skills in the online environment, our clients are businesses who either specialise in online travel, or who are looking to boost their online capabilities within the hospitality, tourism, leisure and travel industry .
Puregenie is backed by the highly respected executive recruitment company, Gail Kenny Executive Search Limited.
Our online recruitment agency team have a wealth of travel recruitment experience, allowing us to find the ideal online job in the travel industry for talented candidates.
Our Team
Gail Kenny, Managing Director
With extensive experience of both the travel and recruitment industries, it seems natural that Gail founded Puregenie to encompass both aspects of her expertise.
Gail began her travel industry career working for one of the leading business travel management companies - The Travel Company. In a varied role that incorporated aspects of sales, marketing, supplier relations and event management, Gail gained a valuable insight to the corporate travel market. Gail progressed on to the leisure side of the travel industry with an HR management and operational position with Austravel.
Between 1996 and 2004 Gail played a significant part in the growth of an executive recruitment business specialising in the travel sector. Gail gained considerable experience handling assignments at senior level across many sectors, whilst growing the executive recruitment team internally. During this time, she acquired a thorough knowledge of the travel industry. Gail rose to become a senior director and the driving force behind the company until departing in 2004 to found Gail Kenny Executive Search.
Over the years Gail has built up an extensive network of contacts in the travel industry and an ability to match a client's specific requirements with an intuitive selection of quality candidates.
Ian Brooks, Sales and Marketing Director
Ian began his travel industry career with ILG plc, the Intasun Holidays to Air Europe Group. Following its demise, Ian joined Virgin Atlantic and rose to the position of General Manager - Sales and Commercial. After a secondment as Commercial Director for Eurostar, Ian returned to Virgin to set up and run a European tour operation, and later an online travel agency.
In 2001, Ian left the Virgin Group after 10 years, and along with another ex-Virgin director founded the Med Group, comprising a dynamic packaging retailer (Travelbargains Ltd) and an online hotel broker (Med Hotels Ltd). The business pioneered the trend in DIY travel packages, and rapidly grew to turnover £60m. After bringing on board Barclays Ventures, the businesses were sold in December 2003 to Lastminute.com plc.
Ian also retains a wide network of relationships in the travel industry.
Garry Thompson, Associate
Garry is a HR Consultant and Executive Coach with over 20 years' experience working both strategically and operationally. He has a proven track record in managing change and developing pragmatic and innovative HR initiatives in relation to: organisation development, reward, training and development, employee relations, recruitment and selection, policy and procedures, and career management. Garry has specific experience of managing high growth and start-up businesses.
Garry was HR Director for Opodo, the European on-line travel agent from 2004 to 2006, prior to Opodo he was Head of HR for Amadeus Services Ltd and prior to this, Garry worked for 11 years at Galileo United Kingdom, a wholly owned BA subsidiary, where he was responsible for all aspects of Human Resources.
Garry is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an ACAS trained Mediator and is also qualified to administer and interpret psychometrics.
Jayne Peirce, Senior Account Manager
jayne@gailkenny.com
Jayne had always wanted to work in the travel industry from a very early age so after leaving college joined Thomson Worldwide in a reservations role and soon progressed to head office where her career commenced in a commercial role.
After working for Thomson and Sunworld, Jayne progressed to her first travel industry management role at First Choice within the Lates department where she gained vast commercial, and revenue management experience. In 1998 Jayne took a change of career and joined Cosmos and Avro as Teletext and Telesales Key Account Manager. Due to Jayne's sound commercial awareness she then joined the Commercial division building a new working relationship with internet, digital TV companies and affinity groups before Heading the Lates Department for 5 years.
After 15 years of working in the travel industry Jayne has a good insight and understanding of Tour Operating and in particular Yield and Revenue Management.
Chris Burwell, Account Manager
Chris moved into the Travel Industry in 1999 working for RCI Europe. Chris soon progressed through both the inbound and outbound depts. In the call centre Chris successfully lead an outbound team pioneering coaching techniques. Chris moved across to the Key Client Team where he designed launched and managed the outbound strategy directly liaising with the US and European Teams driving sales.
After a restructure Chris moved into Commercial where he championed the Travel Insurance product leading a tender process and managing relationships with Travel Suppliers. He then moved to 1st4cruising on an interim basis as Commercial Executive where he renegotiated the supply of Insurance and Car hire whilst also sourcing Hotels, Airlines, transfers and other travel products.
Chris has a good understanding and knowledge of Tour Operating and International Markets within the travel industry.
Mark Houston, Account Manager
After a brief spell in investment banking, Mark entered the world of travel in 2000 and fulfilled a lifetime ambition by becoming an overseas representative for a major UK tour operator. Two years later he returned to the UK to work for TV Travel Shop where he soon rose to become Team Manager of the Homeworking division.
In 2004 Mark was snapped up by Advantage Travel Centres initially as a Member Account Manager and then as a Commercial Negotiator for Triton.
Mark’s curiosity and drive lead him to Medhotels as their Agency Sales Manager and more recently he has been with luxury specialist Sunset Faraway Holidays as their Head Of Sales. The breadth and variety of roles that Mark has experienced within the travel industry coupled with his network of contacts means he is well placed now at Gail Kenny Executive Search.
Nupur Majumdar, Account Manager
A qualified MBA graduate, Nupur began her career in the aviation industryworking for reputed airlines such as British Airways and American Airlines, both within and outside of the UK. Nupur worked in various capacities in the airline sector, focusing mainly in customer services.
She then moved on to Aviation recruitment with a specialist aviation consultancy, and as Account Manager was responsible for managing a portfolio which consisted of aircraft manufacturers, airlines and major cargo operators.
Nupur brings the collective knowledge and experience of working in aviation, recruitment and a multi-cultural environment.
Bernadette Pini, Sales Support Manager
Berni’s introduction to the travel industry was a work placement
for Sunworld Holidays back in 1996, after a successful placement she was
invited back during the summer holidays.
She then got the buzz of the travel industry and joined
Sunworld, within the Late Sales and Yield department, working on promotional
and tactical activity with agents. When Sunworld/JMC became part of the
Thomas Cook Group and relocated to Peterborough she decided this was her
opportunity to move on.
She then spent 5 years working for Cosmos Holidays, Avro,
Cosmos Tourama and Somewhere2stay.com in Sales Support, supporting a team
of field Sales Managers and the retail trade.
Nick Power, Resource Analyst
Nick studied Maths and Economics at the London School of Economics, and has joined Gail Kenny Executive Search after a brief stint in the propery sector.
Nick is skilled in analytics and database management. In addition to providing research and sourcing facilities to the team, Nick assists in the development of both the Puregenie and Gail Kenny websites.
