President of China, AirAsia, Kathleen Tan

WEGOGO is please to announce that AirAsia’s President of China, Kathleen Tan, joins our Board of Strategic Advisors!

A name synonymous with AirAsias amazing growth and success, Kathleen pioneered low-cost travel in 17 China cities since 2005. Described by China search giant Baidu as “aviation legend”, her passion for China, acute insights and wealth of experience earned her respect as one of the most influential leaders in China aviation. Her commercial achievements include building AirAsia to a global award-winning brand for 5 consecutive years, and an impressive network from 17 to 143 aircraft.

While she served as Regional Head of Commercial and Senior Vice President of China at AirAsia, she increased the revenue 14-fold to over RM5 billion between 2004 to 2013. The airline also secured the first of many Skytrax World’s Best Low-Cost Airline awards.

From 2013 to 2015, Kathleen joined as CEO of the first unique joint venture between AirAsia & Expedia, where she helped to establish the Expedia brands in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India and Southeast Asia to become a leading OTA player. In 8 months, she turned the joint-ventures financial fortunes into a business worth over US$1 billion.

Over the years, Kathleen has earned numerous accolades and recognition for her work, such as Top 10 Most Influential Women Leaders in Travel and Skift’s Top 50 Marketers in Travel in 2013, as well as china Finance Summit’s Industry’s Most Influential Person in the same year.

A self-proclaimed disruptor of the aviation and tourism industry, Kathleen has also made a personal (undisclosed) financial investment in WEGOGO.

“WEGOGO is definitely moving in the right direction and I am so excited to be a part of this, even though it’s in my own personal capacity. I am equally inspired to lend my tourism and airline expertise to this venture, to create a fairer travel economy and ultimately, a better world for travel.”

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