Jess Allerton
Jess Allerton joined The Moodie Davitt Report in 2022 as our Research Director. For the previous two years she managed a team of data scientists for UK supermarket group Morrisons, providing insight for the Supply Chain department. Allerton has also held research and category management roles with fellow retailers Asda and Marks & Spencer, providing data and insight to drive category strategy.
Alex Avery
Pragma is the leading commercial advisor for investors and operators in mixed-use, airports and travel retail. Pragma creates commercial strategies and practical advice for decision makers based on insightful analytics, robust modelling, global experience and new thinking. The core proposition is turning data-driven strategic insights into successful commercial plans.
David Bisset
David Bisset is a New Zealand national with over 20 years’ travel retail experience across the Pacific, Asia and Middle East.
Bisset has worked with Lagardère Travel Retail since 2011, holding multiple roles including Executive General Manager Pacific, Chief Executive Officer Saudi Arabia and Chief Development Officer North America.
Zenola Campbell
Zenola Campbell is the Vice President of Concessions at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport. In this role, Campbell develops strategies that focus on maximising revenues in passenger-related concessions, advertising, rental cars, sponsorships and related revenues within the airport terminals, including passenger services enhancements and telecommunications.
Sherree Coker
As the Vice President of People, Sherree Coker is a seasoned human resource professional with an incredibly diverse background in all aspects of human resources.
Dermot Davitt
Dermot Davitt is one of the most experienced editors and commentators working in the travel retail media. He joined what was then The Moodie Report in April 2006 as Deputy Publisher, becoming a shareholder and President in August 2015.
Atif Elkadi
Atif Elkadi has more than 17 years of extensive senior-level experience in all aspects of airport operations, strategic marketing, social media, brand management, public relations, marketing, advertising and strategic communications.
Tom Fricke
Tom Fricke is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience leading transformational change at businesses in the consumer products and retail sectors. He most recently stepped into the role of Interim CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors for OTG, where he’s spearheading the airport hospitality group’s long-term growth and stability initiatives following its acquisition by a private investor consortium led by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Centerbridge Partners, L.P.
Elisa Grey
Elisa Grey has over 24 years of experience in business attraction and retention, and project management of commercial development projects within the Inland Empire as an economic development professional.
Liz Grzechowiak
Liz Grzechowiak is Senior Director, Brands and Concepts for Delaware North, a global hospitality service company operating in airports and travel hubs around the world. It manages more than 200 brands in over 300 restaurants and retail stores in addition to sports stadiums, national parks, gaming venues as well as the Patina Restaurant Group.
Mélanie Guilldou
Mélanie Guilldou has been leading Lagardère’s Travel Retail Foodservice business line – one of the Group’s three business lines along with Duty Free and Travel Essentials – since May 2016. Lagardère Travel Retail is a leading global company present in 42 countries, 290 airports and 700 railway/metro stations, achieving sales of €6.6 billion in 2023.
Jack MacGowan
Jack MacGowan spent seven years as CEO of ARI, a leading travel retailer. Prior to that, MacGowan was Chief Commercial Officer of the daa, which owns and manages several airports in Ireland, Europe and in the Middle East.
Christopher
McNamee
Christopher McNamee leads the charge to grow the airport food & beverage division of New Jersey-based Villa Restaurant Group. Acting as Director of Business Development, McNamee has inked deals for more than three dozen airport restaurants over the past eight years, adding nine times worth of sales to the division.
Martin Moodie
Martin Moodie created The Moodie Davitt Report (then called The Moodie Report) in 2002, driving it to prominence from a start-up to the leading provider of business intelligence for the travel retail and airport commercial revenue sectors. He also conceived The Trinity Forum and the Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) Conference & Awards.
Reoewein Niesten
Reoewein Niesten is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Conceptional. He learned his trade at renowned international food & beverage companies and gradually developed his own view on branding and concept development.
Gregg Paradies
Gregg Paradies is President and CEO of Paradies Lagardère, a leading airport travel retailer and restaurateur in North America with more than 700 stores and restaurants in over 90 airports.
Sammy Patel
Sammy Patel is Vice President of Commercial for Vantage Airport Group and Chief Executive Officer of Midway Partnership. He is also a member of the company’s executive team.
Donata Russell Ross
Donata Russell Ross serves as the CEO of Concessions International, LLC, a national food & beverage operator. Founded in 1979, Concessions International specialises in airport food & beverage concession operations and currently operates and manages concession facilities in eight major airports across the nation.
Sossina Shenkute
With more than 20 years’ experience in strategic planning, brand management, product management and consumer marketing across luxury, B2B and FMCG, Sossina Shenkute’s career has taken her from North America to Europe and Asia. Through these experiences, together with her African heritage, she has garnered a passion for understanding consumers and has learned to see them through a kaleidoscope of market dynamics, value systems and cultures.
Sandeep Sonawane
Sandeep Sonawane is a seasoned business leader with a proven track record of driving sustainable financial growth. With over two decades of experience in business leadership and management, Sandeep currently heads the business development strategy at DreamFolks.
Michael Svagdis
With 25 years’ experience in the food & beverage industry, ten of which have been with SSP America as Chief Executive Officer, Michael Svagdis leads a talented team driven by an unparalleled passion for bringing cool, authentic restaurants to airports that reflect a taste of place.
Andrew Weddig
Andrew Weddig is an airport concessions industry thought leader with more than 25 years’ experience planning, developing and managing airport dining and shopping programmes at more than 40 North American airports.