Jetabroad is a Sydney-based, global online travel agency focused on selling highly competitive international airfares and travel insurance.

At Jetabroad you, our customer, come first. As you explore the world with us, we will always seek to make your experience as easy and enjoyable as possible. And with Jetabroad, what you see is what you pay. Fares quoted by Jetabroad include applicable taxes and other charges wherever possible.

We are committed to providing a range of innovative flight solutions typically not offered by other online travel providers - such as stopovers, multi-city itineraries and innovative fare combinations.

Our office and travel consultants are located at Chatswood in Sydney's northern suburbs.

Jetabroad is led by a team of business professionals with extensive international experience in both offline and Internet-based travel and consumer marketing.

Darin Walters - Managing Director

Darin has extensive general management experience in major Australian businesses with a strong consumer focus. From 1995 to 2003, Darin worked at Blackmores - Australia’s leading, natural healthcare company - in roles that included General Manager Sales and Marketing, Managing Director and CEO. More recently, Darin was CEO Exhibition Australia/New Zealand for the Hoyts Cinema Group.

Darin has also worked with The Boston Consulting Group and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Alex Snead - Founder and Executive Director

With 27 years' experience in the international travel industry, Alex has been a true pioneer of Internet travel booking in the Asian region. Since moving to Australia from the United States in 1989, Alex has:

• Introduced the Amadeus global distribution system (GDS) to Australasia while working with Telstra (Australia's leading telecommunications provider), securing Amadeus' position as market leader
• Worked with Qantas Airways to broaden its Internet distribution, including building an Asia-wide Internet travel business, Zuji, from concept to full implementation
• Acted as Zuji's Executive Director of Strategy and Director of Operations - going on to lead the rollout of Zuji's business model in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.

At the age of 17, Alex founded, owned and managed his own IATA-accredited travel agency (Main Street World Travel in San Antonio, Texas), the youngest person in the US to achieve this.

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Paul Shepanski - Director

Paul brings 18 years of international senior management experience to Jetabroad. From 1987 to 1999, he worked as a consultant, manager and partner with The Boston Consulting Group where his clients included some of the region's most significant consumer businesses, including leaders in the areas of retailing, banking, telecommunications and travel. He served as the Managing Partner of BCG's Auckland office in 1997 and 1998.

From 1999 to 2001, Paul served as Group General Manager e-Commerce for Qantas Airways. While there, he led the comprehensive redevelopment of the airline's website and, together with Alex Snead, initiated the Asian Internet travel business, Zuji.

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Ben Chong - Director

Ben is a veteran of Australian Internet marketing, having built a number of successful online businesses from scratch over the last eight years. These include Online Agility, an incubator and developer of online concepts, and iMega Group, an online marketing group. Ben has also consulted in the areas of e-commerce strategy, online marketing and customer care for major clients such as Volvo, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sugar Australia.

In 1994, Ben was named National Young Business Person of the Year by Young Achievement Australia.

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