Kevin Mitchell

With support from CIGNA and 16 other major corporations Kevin Mitchell founded the Business Travel Contractors Corporation (BTCC) in 1994 as a corporate buying group to advance fundamental reforms to the airline industry distribution system. The broad industry shift to net airfares and travel agency fee-based pricing during the 1990s are initiatives BTCC advanced. In 1996, the Business Travel Coalition (BTC) was formed as an advocacy organization to interpret industry and government policies and practices and to provide a platform so that the managed-travel community could influence issues of strategic importance to their organizations.  As BTC Chairman, Mitchell writes and speaks on airline competition, travel distribution, passenger issues and aviation system security and has testified before the U.S. Congress and various other governmental bodies some 30 times. Mitchell has addressed numerous audiences in Europe including the inaugural Association of Corporation Executives Conference in London, the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Swiss Parliament in Bern, the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply in London and has organized competition Summits throughout Europe. Since 2001, the Coalition has published its daily news compendium BTC Travelogue in 80 countries. Mitchell was recognized by Business Travel News as one of the 25 most influential industry executives for 1994, 1996, 1997 and 2008 and was designated Man of the Year in 1998 by the Commercial Travelers Association and Person of The Year for 1998 and 1999 by Travel Agent Magazine.