PRESS RELEASE: Cindy Allen joins Tripgrid Board

‍Portland, OR, USA: We are delighted to announce the appointment of Cindy Allen to our board of directors at Tripgrid, the leading productivity software for traveling teams.

Cindy currently serves as CEO of StoneEagle F&I, a software company which provides innovative solutions and customer service to the retail automotive industry. Prior to this she held a variety of senior roles in corporate travel including CEO at GDSX, Vice President of TMC Services at Concur and CMO at American Express GBT.  

She was appointed to the board of directors following a successful year for the startup who raised $1.5 million in May, joined the SAP Concur App Center in July and won second place at the SAP Concur Travel Industry Summit’s Innovation Shark Tank in September.

Speaking about the appointment, Jake Hoskins, CEO at Tripgrid, said, “We needed someone who knew both the corporate travel and Software as a Service (SaaS) landscapes intimately. Cindy was the perfect fit. To have access to her talent and leadership to advise us through 2021 and beyond is fantastic and will further our mission to become the industry’s leading productivity software for teams that travel.”

Speaking about her decision to support the Tripgrid team, Cindy said, “It was a great opportunity to join Tripgrid’s board of directors and support innovation in an area I love, the corporate travel space. I am passionate about building companies - companies that people love to work at, that people and companies love to do business with and that make a healthy profit for their owners/investors. To be able to put my experience to good use and help steer the direction of this innovative travel product is really exciting. Now more than ever, travel managers and coordinators are having to do more with less and productivity software is a great solution.”

Tripgrid was launched in 2017 to help solve group travel challenges in the corporate travel space. Their software is a centralized travel platform that fixes inefficient, unstandardized and inaccurate travel processes to ensure traveler safety and comprehend spend.

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