In his role as Senior Vice President & CTO for IHG (InterContinental Hotels
Group Plc), he led the core systems and strategic technology
transformation efforts, designing, and implementing IHG's enterprise-wide
architecture roadmap.
Previously, as Senior VP—Technology Solutions at
Starwood, he
oversaw the development of technology solutions for guest-facing
applications, including web channel and property management systems.
Both at IHG and in
As Vice President, Enterprise
Architecture with Sabre Inc., a major computer reservations system,
and provider of technology solutions for the travel and
transportation industry.
During his tenure there,
Prior to working for Sabre, he worked with Galileo
International, where he spearheaded the introduction of distributed
reservation technologies to thousands of travel agencies and drove
introduction of TCP/IP connectivity worldwide.
His career also
includes working for United Airlines and IBM.
During his time with United Airlines, Israel pioneered the
diskless workstation LAN infrastructure at Chicago's O'Hare Airport,
and while at IBM he provided international support to IBM’s world
trade systems engineering organizations, including writing IBM Red
Books on networking and on UNIX Internals.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics &
Communications from
ABOUT ME
I enjoy working and technology, but I also enjoy reading, playing music (Guitar & Bass), and even dabbling in writing fiction!