Gustavo Echevarria

Current

• Associate Professor at Universidad del Salvador - Argentina
• Commercial Manager & Webmaster at Partimos.com

Past

• Consultant at Sistemas Int de Marketing S.A.
• Manager Interline Alliances and Domestic Sales at Southern Winds Líneas Aéreas S.A.
• Sales Manager Argentina & Uruguay at Delta Airlines Inc.

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Education

• State University of New York at Albany
• USAL - Georgetown University
• Universidad de Belgrano

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Industry

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Gustavo Echevarria’s Summary

Professional with a blend of sales, marketing and business development background acquired in 20 years of work in different senior level positions in the travel industry. Oriented to commercial strategy, marketing planning, online marketing and project management.

With almost 5 years of experience in internet business, website strategy, development and implementation of online travel sites. Expertise in budget management; data analysis and supervision of a web/internet marketing staff,collaborating with cross functional team.Working knowledge of current and emerging web / internet technology and applications as it relates to marketing.

Able to manage multiple projects from inception through completion.Know how to communicate with multiple teams and different cultures.Deliver tangible results as a product manager, project manager and business analyst within own projects.Take proactive ownership and leadership of projects.Experienced in working through ambiguity and complexity to deliver results through own initiative.Ability to identify, recommend and implement business improvement initiatives

Also interested in academic work, lecture about E-Commerce and New Technologies as Associate Professor at Universidad del Salvador Argentina.

Gustavo Echevarria’s Specialties:

E-Commerce start-up.Project Management.
Marketing Strategy, Business Planning,.
Online Marketing campaigns.Business development.
Sales & Marketing planning.Territory management.
Deal negotiation.Sales Team coaching.

Gustavo Echevarria’s Experience

• Associate Professor

  Universidad del Salvador - Argentina

  (Higher Education industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Lecturer about : E-commerce and New Tech at the Marketing Undergraduate program at Universidad del Salvador - Argentina
  
  Lecturer about : Web Project Management at the Postgraduate Certificate of e-Business Management for the USAL- Georgetown University joint program in Argentina.

• Commercial Manager & Webmaster

  Partimos.com

  (Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  January 2006 — Present (4 years )

  •Develop existing business for the company websites.
  Negotiate agreements and deals with consultancy approach with different suppliers.
  •Manage business relationships with hoteliers, tour operators and Airlines being responsible for hitting revenue targets.
  •Manage digital marketing projects, ideation and the development of new thinking in the areas of customer experience, conversion and interactive marketing channel.
  • Provides thought leadership using market research and competitive trends.Assess competitive threats, expansion opportunities and internal business improvements.
  •Manage a team of 10 sales staff and 4 sales support.
  
  From Jan 2006 to Nov 2009
  
  • As Webmaster manage the day to day tasks associated with the development and implementation of programs, features/functionality and content for web properties.
  • As PM act as the liaison between the creative, business and technical teams and works integrally with these teams to: define project plans and time lines, facilitate team communication, track progress, establish metrics, reports, and work with outside vendors (designers and software developers team,GDS and Back Office) to aggregate necessary resources and assets to fully integrate the agency operations systems and website.
  •Supervise a team of 5 people

Additional Information

Gustavo Echevarria’s Interests:

project management,internet business, entrepreneurship,political science,economics.

Gustavo Echevarria’s Contact Settings

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