THE Flight Centre Travel Group announced that two of its most senior executives, Chris Galanty and Melanie Waters-Ryan, would move into newly created chief executive (CEO) roles at end of Fiscal Year 2020 responsible for FLT's corporate and leisure businesses respectively. Mr. Galanty was formerly the head of FLT's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business. In his new role, he will continue to be based in London and will be responsible for FLT's rapidly growing corporate travel businesses, which together are on track to deliver more than $10 billion in total transaction value (TTV) during the 2020 fiscal year (FY20).

He will also oversee corporate-related transformation initiatives and strategies. Ms. Waters-Ryan was formerly the company's chief operating officer. She will continue to be based in Brisbane and will be responsible for growing FLT's established and emerging leisure businesses across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and India.

Ms. Waters-Ryan will also oversee The Travel Group, FLT's emerging network of in- destination businesses, and the various leisure-related transformation initiatives that are underway. Three new regional managing directors (MDs) will join Mr. Galanty, Ms Waters-Ryan and chief financial officer Adam Campbell on FLT MD Graham Turner's global leadership team. The new MD appointments are effective from January 1, 2020 and will see: EMEA corporate leader Steve Norris succeed Mr. Galanty as London-based EMEA: MD.

Mr. Norris has worked for FLT since 2003 in a career that has spanned the leisure, corporate and wholesale businesses;: Australian corporate leader James Kavanagh promoted to the new Brisbane-based role of Australian MD. Mr. Kavanagh has 23 years' industry experience and has worked for FLT since 2004; and American corporate leader Charlene Leiss, the head of the business that has fuelled: FLT's strong profit and TTV growth in the United States and Canada, succeed Dean Smith as Americas MD. Ms. Leiss has worked for FLT and Garber Travel, a Boston- based corporate business that FLT acquired, for 24 years.

Mr. Smith, who is based in New Jersey, will work alongside Ms. Waters-Ryan in a strategic global leisure role through to June 30, 2020, when he has decided to retire.