Jeff Clarke
Chief Executive Officer and President, Travelport Director, Travelport, Board of Directors Chairman, Board of Directors, Orbitz Worldwide
Jeff Clarke is chief executive officer and president of Travelport and serves as a director on the Travelport board of directors, appointed in May 2006. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Orbitz Worldwide.
Jeff Clarke has 21 years of strategic, operational and financial experience with leading high-technology firms.
Prior to Travelport, Jeff Clarke was chief operating officer for CA (formerly Computer Associates), where he had responsibility for sales, services, business development, partnerships, alliances, finance and information technology.
Before joining CA, Jeff Clarke was executive vice president, global operations for Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), where he was responsible for the largest global supply chain and procurement operations in the technology industry. As executive vice president, merger integration, Jeff Clarke played a key role in integrating the operations, financials and cultures of HP and Compaq Computer Corporation following the $19 billion merger of the two companies. He is widely credited with leading the team, which identified and captured more than $3.5 billion in savings.
Jeff Clarke began his career with Digital Equipment Corporation in 1985. He joined Compaq in 1998 following its acquisition of Digital and served in various positions of increasing responsibility in strategic finance before being appointed Compaq's chief financial officer in 2001.
Jeff Clarke holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a master's degree in business administration from Northeastern University.
Jeff Clarke is a member of the UTStarcom board of directors, a NASDAQ listed firm; a board member of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD); an executive committee member of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and a member of the Geneseo Foundation board of directors (Charitable Foundation for SUNY at Geneseo).
Press Releases
- Travel Agents Worldwide Continue to Recognise Travelport GDS
- Travelport Appoints Management Team of Its GDS Business
- Travelport Completes Acquisition of Worldspan, L.P. Creating a Global Leader in Travel Distribution Services
- Travelport Announced Pricing Of Orbitz Worldwide Initial Public Offering
- Travelport Reviews ECO-Friendly Initiatives
- Travelport CEO Jeff Clarke to Discuss the Company's Environmental Programs
- Travelport CEO Jeff Clarke Named One Of The Top 25 Most Influential Executives
- Travelport Ltd. And Worldspan, L.P. To Merge
- Travelport To Organize Under Three Global Businesses
- Affiliate Of Blackstone Group Completes Acquisition
- Sale Of Travelport Affirms Its Recognition
- Cendant Appoints Leading Technology Industry Executive Jeff Clarke
Articles
- World Economic Forum's travel & tourism report
- HP-Compaq lessons for Microsoft-Yahoo!
- Microsoft-Yahoo Past Ventures Raise Integration Concerns
- Is Big Business Still Thinking Green?
- Perform or Perish
- Travelport Acquisition Ups Reservations Ante
- The Ax Man
- Travelport CEO Jeff Clarke
- Travelport Cues Up Worldspan: One-On-One With CEO Jeff Clarke
- WTTC: Industry leaders weigh in on
- Next, the You-Tour
- Cendant Selects A Top CA Officer
- Cendant Expected to Name Chief of Web Travel