ACTE Hires Ronald Kosmahl And Kathleen Brannigan

(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 12, 2007 ) Alexandria, Va – To meet the growing demands of its members and to better serve the corporate travel industry at large, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) Global has added two new members to its international team: Ronald Kosmahl, Director, Global Education & Research, and Kathleen Brannigan, Senior Director, Global Communications.

"These strategic hires bring a wealth of international business and overseas experience, as well as foreign language capabilities to the association, and we are excited and pleased to have people of such high professional caliber as Ron and Kathy join ACTE," Susan Gurley, ACTE Global Executive Director, said. "Their respective areas of expertise will play a key role in ACTE's ongoing mission to support the global education needs of the industry."

She continued, "For the last 20 years, ACTE has been on the forefront in bringing progressive and relevant educational programs and events to its members and sponsors. We are now poised to offer an even more superior level of service, one that the corporate travel industry has come to expect from ACTE."

Prior to joining ACTE, Kosmahl held positions in corporate management for many of the world's top airlines such as Lufthansa, American and Delta in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Washington, D.C., and has worked for more than 18 years in the German and European marketplace.

He also served as an Advisor to the German-American Chamber of Commerce, as well as to several environmental organizations such as Climate Trust.

Kosmahl is a member of the German-American Business Council and the German-American Chamber of Commerce, and has received numerous Sales Achievement and Industry Awards.

He holds a bachelor of arts degree in German Studies and International Relations from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and studied as a DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service) Scholar at the University of Mainz in Germany. Kosmahl is fluent in German.

Prior to joining ACTE, Brannigan was the Vice President, Public Relations for Greystone Partners LLC., a boutique public relations and advertising agency in New York. While there, she worked on high profile client accounts that included Disney, NASCAR, SYLVANIA and the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission.

Brannigan also served as the Associate Director, Corporate Communications for Cotton Incorporated, the marketing arm of the U.S. cotton industry, based in New York City. Her responsibilities included developing and implementing public relations programs for the company's international offices. She also held the position of Senior Editor with Fairchild Publications in Manhattan, where she was responsible for overseeing all editorial aspects of the company's international publications.

From 1993-1996, Brannigan lived in Caracas, Venezuela, and was employed as the Editor of Business Venezuela, an award-winning English language magazine published by the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce. She is fluent in Spanish.

Brannigan is a member of the National Press Club.

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The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) represents the global business travel industry through its international advocacy efforts, executive level education programs, and independent industry research. ACTE's membership consists of senior travel industry executives from over 50 countries representing the € 200 Billion travel business industry. With the support of sponsors from every major segment of the business travel industry, ACTE develops and delivers educational programs in key business centers throughout the world. ACTE has offices in Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, South Africa, and the United States. For information on ACTE go to www.acte.org.

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