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John Mangelaars

CEO

Skyscanner

John is CEO at Skyscanner, appointed in January 2021. He has over 30 years’ experience leading multinational online and software businesses. John’s background is in product development, sales and consumer marketing. He spent over 20 years at Microsoft, latterly as European Vice President, and joined Travix International B.V. as CEO in 2013. John drove significant revenue growth at Travix, and it was bought by Trip.com, Skyscanner’s parent company, in December 2019. Outside of work, John is involved in a number of various investment and charity projects in Africa. He loves to travel with his family, and has lived in The Netherlands, the UK, the US and France.

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