OUR PEOPLE

Chris Thomas
Managing Director
15 years’ experience with full-cycle recruitment and development of global talent covering a wide variety of leading job positions in Asia, Chris is an expert in talent build across the aviation, loyalty, and online travel sectors. He works closely with the shareholders and leadership of travel businesses focused on optimizing their business set-up to achieve company vision, mission, values and objectives.

Vanessa Tang
General Manager
With almost 12 years of in-house talent management experience across the aviation and travel sectors, Vanessa’s brings a track-record of successful talent sourcing at fast-growing companies. Her sector expertise includes: aviation, airports, hospitality, online travel agencies, loyalty platform, and ground handling. Through personalization, Vanessa delivers a bespoke agency solution for her global clients.

Riddhi Sukhia
Associate
A recent Honours undergraduate from Hong Kong majoring in Psychology with a minor in Human Resources Management, Riddhi joined Aviation Talent as an Associate in June 2018. She supports talent acquisition tasks such as screening, tracking, evaluation of candidates, and establishing & maintaining communication between the clients, candidates, and the company.

Goshu Nakajima
Regional Manager – North Asia
Sales & Marketing Specialist
With 20 years of travel sales leadership in Japan, Goshu brings an extensive network of commercial, sales, marketing, technology, and regulatory professionals to clients keen on building Japan targeted teams. Based in Tokyo, Goshu provides critical face-to-face client support, candidate identification, screening, and onboarding support across North Asia for all Genki Talent businesses.
Specializations: Commercial, Sales & Marketing, Airports, Distribution, OTA, Customer Service, Japan based recruitment.
Languages: Japanese, English

Greg Green
Regional Manager – Pacific
Technology & eCommerce Specialist
Greg’s 20 years as a travel technology and airline innovation leader shapes his deep network of professionals and keen eye for technology focused capabilities required to succeed. Greg is an expert at identifying innovative thinkers who balance for clients system integration, optimization, and cutting-edge functionality with the cost-saving mindset critical to achieving return on technology investment.
Specializations: Technology, e-Commerce & Distribution, Infrastructure, Security, Artificial Intelligence, Loyalty, Business Reporting, Automation.
Languages: English

Joo Hwee Hui
Regional Manager – SE Asia
Strategy & Alliances Specialist
Joo Hwee’s 12 years of business venture development experience spans several airlines, start-ups and holding companies operating across Asia. As a specialist in strategy, network planning and alliances, Joo Hwee helps clients identify thought leaders and innovative planning experts throughout the Asia-Pacific market. His network spans leading Chinese and SE Asia full-service and low-cost professionals.
Specializations: Strategy, Network Planning, Alliances, Start-up, Market Entry, Program Management.
Languages: Mandarin, English