As Chief Strategic Accounts Officer Jason Toothman leads the company's relationships with its largest and most strategic agency customers worldwide. He is responsible for developing long-term growth strategies, strengthening executive partnerships, and helping customers unlock greater value from Travelport's technology and solutions.
Before taking on this role, Jason served as Travelport's Chief Commercial Officer, where he led the company's global Commercial organization, including agency sales and account management, helping strengthen Travelport's commercial execution and customer relationships across global markets.
Prior to joining Travelport in 2020, Jason was Executive General Manager – Global Airline Distribution at Flight Centre Travel Group, where he was responsible for developing and executing the company's airline distribution strategy, including securing the most relevant airline content and advancing the adoption of New Distribution Capability (NDC) across global channels.
Before joining Flight Centre, Jason spent more than 15 years at Sabre, holding a number of senior leadership roles across agency sales, account management and airline distribution. His experience included serving as Vice President, Global Accounts APAC; Vice President, North America; and Managing Director, Airline Distribution. Throughout his career, he has built deep expertise in commercial strategy, customer partnerships, airline distribution and global travel retailing, earning a reputation for building trusted relationships across the industry.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Learning and Development from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He lives in Flower Mound, Texas, with his family.
Plan everything. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail!
Jason Toothman
What’s your favourite travel destination in the world?
Queenstown, New Zealand
Plan everything or keep it flexible?
Plan it. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail!
Beach or mountains?
Mountains.
Who has been your biggest influence?
My dad. If I’m half the husband and father he is, then I’m a successful man.
If I wasn’t part of Travelport’s SLT, I’d be…
A college basketball coach. I’m still trying to convince my oldest son to become one so I can live vicariously through him.