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Graham has more than 25 years’ broad experience in the travel industry, with a career built on developing and driving new businesses. He was educated at the London School of Economics’ where he graduated with a degree in Economics. Upon graduation Graham moved almost immediately into the rapidly developing world of technology. In 1984 he along with three colleagues joined Sandhurst Marketing plc and formed the business systems division of which he was appointed managing director. In 1987 he and his colleagues obtained finance from Midland Bank plc. and performed an MBO and changed the name to Integra Systems.

As founder of Integra Systems UK – a developer of destination management systems – he led the company through major international and domestic growth. At one point Integra software was deployed throughout Scotland and all of the major UK leisure and business destinations. In 1997 he was instrumental in making a trade sale of the company and moved to the USA where he led the growth and development of Bond International Software Inc. for over four years. In 2002 he returned to the UK where he founded the Omni Tourism group, owners of leading online travel news service Travelmole.com. The company is the world’s largest b2b travel trade news resource, sending out over 500,000 email newswires every day.

In addition to his duties at TravelMole Graham is a non-executive director of Responsibletravel.com, Siren PR and an adviser to First Source-Interactive. More recently Graham has completed work for Farm Stay UK, Estonian Enterprise, IFITT, Visit Britain (on social media) and Isle of Wight Tourism. He is a fellow of the Tourism Society and immediate past chair of the ENTER conference on Tourism and Technology.