Leadership

    • Martin Brand

      Managing Director, The Blackstone Group
      Director, Travelport Board of Directors
      Director, Orbitz Worldwide

Martin Brand, Managing Director, The Blackstone Group, serves as a Director on the Travelport Board of Directors.  He also serves as a Director of Orbitz Worldwide.

Martin joined Blackstone’s London office in 2003 and transferred to Blackstone’s New York office in 2005. Since joining Blackstone, he has been involved in the execution of the firm’s direct investments in SULO, Kabel BW, Primacom, New Skies, CineUK, NHP and Travelport, as well as add-on investments in Cleanaway and Worldspan.

Before joining Blackstone, Martin was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Prior to that, he was a derivatives trader with the FICC division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and Tokyo.

Martin received his B.A./M.A. in Mathematics and Computation, First Class Honours, from Oxford University, and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Media Contact:
Julian Walker
+44 1753 288 210
julian.walker@travelport.com

Travelport Facts

Each year, 57 million hotel room nights are booked through Travelport and GTA combined– enough to fill one of the world’s largest hotels, The First World Hotel in Malaysia, every night for over twenty-five years.