Clive Ellul Hawthorn

With more than two decades of experience in sales and commercial leadership, management consulting, strategy & product development, and marketing roles in technology-enabled and data-driven organisations, Clive has launched and scaled e-commerce, digital businesses, devising strategies for multiple geographies and complex industry verticals and spearheading several successful initiatives to deliver financial objectives.

Clive began his career in the travel industry, working for established brands like InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) before being headhunted to join Expedia Group (EG), an e-commerce marketplace, holding senior roles in EMEA and APAC. After that, Clive took on an exciting opportunity working closely with the founder of AMAN and GHM, Adrian Zecha, to launch and scale a group of luxury lifestyle brands.

A new phase in Clive's career saw him take on executive roles in the international education industry, leading strategy and transformation initiatives to unlock new revenue models and the digital telecommunications industry with a customer-led, technology-enabled Series-C funded disruptor, before returning to the travel technology industry in the capacity of VP, Asia and Middle East for Luxury Escapes.