CEO & Chairman

As founder of Partnership Travel Consulting, Andrew Menkes draws on his extensive experience in the travel industry to hone PTC’s operational and strategic vision.

Andrew is a 30-year industry veteran with a varied background in the airline, travel agency and corporate travel management sectors. He started his career with a nine-year stint at TWA, including roles as Regional Manager of Interline Sales, and later as the first Regional Manager of Automation Marketing.

Senior Vice President

Don Murphy has more than 40 years’ experience in the global meetings and travel industry.

Don cut his teeth in the travel industry at Pan American World Airways before joining the special service team in corporate reservations for Air France.

After his early career at the airlines, Don became Corporate Travel Manager and Corporate Meetings Manager at Bristol-Myers Corporation.

Senior Vice President

Dan has over 30 years of travel industry experience with a proven track record of managing sales, operations and business development teams to achieve high business impact and objectives.  As a senior executive with United Airlines, he honed an in-depth knowledge of travel, hospitality, transportation/cargo and service operations.

For the last four years Dan was Vice President of Sales, North America for United,

Senior Vice President, Meetings Strategies

Lauren Ewing has 24 years of hotel sales and marketing, corporate travel agency management, meetings management, and travel and meetings technology integration in her business portfolio. She started her 15-year career in hotels working in senior sales roles with companies such as Sheraton, Interstate, Hilton International, and Potomac Hotel Group.

Her sales and marketing success segued into corporate travel – both sales and operations – working as a Vice President with ITI,