{"id":20917,"date":"2013-07-24T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wego-appoints-joachim-holte-as-chief-marketing-officer-3\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:41:00","slug":"wego-appoints-joachim-holte-as-chief-marketing-officer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/07\/wego-appoints-joachim-holte-as-chief-marketing-officer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wego appoints Joachim Holte as Chief Marketing Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Wego.com, the leading travel search site across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, today announced the appointment of Joachim Holte as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).<\/p>\n<p>Holte will manage all demand generation and brand marketing activities worldwide including SEO, SEM, display, affiliate and partner marketing, PR, CRM and offline advertising. Holte will report to Wego CEO and Co-Founder, Ross Veitch and has relocated to the Singapore HQ from Australia. <\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F07%2F20130705-Wego-Joachim-Ross-151-LR-300x225.jpg&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Holte will report to Wego CEO and Co-Founder, Ross Veitch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cWe think we\u2019ve built a better mousetrap for travel shopping and we have a very loyal base of tech savvy early adopters who seem to agree with us,\u201d said Veitch. \u201cThere are however millions of people that don\u2019t yet know that they could be saving time and paying less for their travel if they were using Wego and it\u2019s Joachim\u2019s mission to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoachim brings to the task a formidable track record running online marketing and brand building activity at tremendous scale across multiple industries and markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With 13 years of specialised online experience, most recently as Executive General Manager with the Wotif Group in Australia, where Holte managed the product, marketing and online strategy. Before the Wotif Group he was part of the team that launched and grew retail site Wayfair in Australia as well as leading the online marketing team for Yahoo! in Australia and New Zealand. His career also includes heading up the marketing team of Australia\u2019s largest finance comparison site, Ratecity, as well as a stint at one of Europe\u2019s first product comparison sites; Kelkoo.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWego is an exciting and powerful proposition in the global travel market: giving travellers more choice, saving them valuable time and ultimately finding them the great <a href=\"http:\/\/booking.traveloscopy.com\/#flights\">travel deals<\/a> that they are looking for. I\u2019m very excited to have this opportunity to contribute to the creation of a leading global brand,\u201d said Holte.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wego.com\/about\">www.wego.com\/about<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wego.com, the leading travel search site across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, today announced the appointment of Joachim Holte as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Holte will manage all demand generation and brand marketing activities worldwide including SEO, SEM, display, affiliate and partner marketing, PR, CRM and offline advertising. Holte will report to Wego CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}