UKFast Group Appoints Booking.Com Leader As CEO

Ukfast | June 22, 2020

Brown joins the cloud hosting firm after more than five years as CEO of fellow Manchester tech giant Rentalcars.com, which in 2018 also became Booking.com's Transport Business Unit. (Rentalcars.com and Booking.com are both part of Booking Holdings Inc, NYSE: BKNG). Ian Brown said: “I’m incredibly pleased to join another of the UK’s flagship tech companies, and indeed to move from the Northwest’s leading B2C tech business to its leading B2B tech business. The sheer pace of change right now in areas such as cloud, home working, and security all point to multiple opportunities for UKFast and its customers. I’m delighted to be joining the UKFast team at this exciting time “Many people don’t realise quite how large the B2B partnerships business is inside Rentalcars and Booking. Regardless of whether it’s B2B or B2C though, the goal is always the same: take away all the hassles and anxiety, and just make it massively easier for your customers to do what they want to do.”

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