Spotlight: Albatross | How To Keep Your Traveling Employees Safe During COVID-19

Raphael began his career in venture development at Rocket Internet and in strategy consulting at PwC / Strategy&. He fell in love with the product discipline while managing the chat product team at letgo, a disruptive classified marketplace. After learning software engineering in early 2020, he founded Albatross, a risk information startup whose first product was an API for information on Covid-related travel restrictions. Albatross was acquired by TravelPerk in July 2020, and re-launched in September as the TravelSafe API. Raphael now manages TravelPerk's duty-of-care focused experiences. When not thinking about how to create amazing experiences for TravelPerk's clients, you can find Raph doing high-altitude mountaineering or cooking some delicious Italian food. 

Sophie is based in Barcelona, with over 10 years of international hospitality and tourism experience. She is well networked, very adept at building international partnerships and maintaining long-term relationships with existing clients. She thrives on strong customer satisfaction.
When not on a plane meeting clients, she’ll either be getting some fresh air in the mountains or discovering a new country.

Brock joined TravelPerk in 2018 in strategic sales and business development - first at the Barcelona HQ, then moving to London to open TravelPerk UK, the company's first remote office. Brock started his career in travel with Porter Airlines in Toronto where he spent 8 years working in both group & charter sales then corporate sales. During this time he was highly active in the MICE industry holding board positions with SITE Canada and MPI. Seeking a change of scenery, Brock moved to Barcelona in 2016 to open the European HQ for Options Away, a B2B2C travel technology.

JC Taunay-Bucalo is the Chief Commercial Officer at TravelPerk, the fastest-growing Saas company in the world. Previously, JC led multiple successful SaaS companies through exponential growth as a Sales and Marketing executive, though not all at the same time. They include EMS Cortex (later sold to Citrix), Vend HQ, and Veeqo.