Tom Klein is president for Sabre Holdings®. He was named to this position in January of 2010.
Klein was previously the Executive Vice President of Sabre Holdings, responsible for Sabre Travel Network® and Sabre Airlines Solutions®, a role he held since 2004.
Prior to this, Klein was senior vice president for Sabre Holdings and president of Sabre Airline Solutions. Under his leadership, Sabre Airline Solutions experienced consistent growth and improved profitability in a financially constrained market. Other highlights include the deployment of Sabre® eMergo, the most successful application service provider (ASP) model in the industry; a repositioning of the consulting practice to better leverage its unique airline industry expertise; and the rollout of SabreSonic Customer Sales & Service, the first new generation suite of open-systems passenger services technologies that provides options for both an integrated end-to-end passenger solution or an individual component approach.
Previously, Klein was president of Emerging Businesses for Sabre Holdings, where he oversaw the launch of a business-to-business e-marketplace and operated a web-hosting business. Other responsibilities included corporate business development and the integration of acquired entities into the Sabre Holdings portfolio.
Earlier roles include senior vice president for Sabre Travel Network, North America, vice president of Product Marketing, and first director general of Sabre Sociedad Tecnologica, a Mexico-based joint venture company owned by Sabre, Aeromexico and Mexicana.
Before joining Sabre, Klein held a variety of sales, marketing, and operations positions at American Airlines and Consolidated Freightways, Inc.
Klein serves on the Executive Board of Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and the Hewlett-Packard Global Customer Advisory Board. He graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.