COO and Founder of Consultia Business Travel
Juan Manuel Baixauli, new member of the Advisory Board of Scaleups de Empresa y Sociedad
- The Scaleups Advisory Board of Fundación Empresa y Sociedad is made up of founders and CEOs of leading scaleups in their field, with a high digital component.
- Baixauli has more than 35 years of experience in the tourism industry and, in addition to running Consultia Business Travel, has founded other companies in the sector and has received several awards throughout his professional career.
Madrid, 14 February 2023. Juan Manuel Baixauli, founder, COO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Consultia Business Travel, a Spanish company specialising in the integrated management of business travel, has been appointed to the Scaleups Advisory Board of the Fundación Empresa y Sociedad.
Baixauli is the founder, COO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Consultia Business Travel. He has more than 35 years of experience in the tourism industry and, in addition to directing Consultia Business Travel, he is the founder of companies such as Viajes Gheisa and the tour operator Go&Golf. He is an expert in technology and tourism strategy for the European Travel Institute, Chairman of the Board of Directors of “la Alquería de Vilches”, and of the Board of Directors of Valencia New Investments. He is also honorary president of the Club de Innovación de la Comunidad Valenciana, member of the Cátedra de Cultura Empresarial and president of the Asociación para el Fomento de la Cultura Empresarial.
The COO of Consultia Business Travel has received numerous awards throughout his professional life. He has been distinguished as National Entrepreneur in 2002, Tourism Award (2003), CV Entrepreneur of the Year (2006), Technology and Innovation Award (2015) and Best Professional Career (2015), among others.
Key to the future of business and society
Fundación Empresa y Sociedad has incorporated the Scaleups Advisory Board as a natural complement to its Senior Business Council. With this action, it aims to become the benchmark entity for scaleups and to collaboratively optimise the business development, marketing and global sales of the more than sixty associated scaleups.
The Scaleups Advisory Board is made up of founders and CEOs of leading scaleups in their field, with a high digital component and genetically collaborative, which gives it a unique and different profile from the most common business advisory boards. In addition to being advisory, technical, operational and reputational, it also has the non-profit nature of Empresa y Sociedad, that is to say, it invests in the generation of social change focused on facilitating the digital evolution of companies and the creation of a new young and technological business fabric.
About Consultia Business Travel
Consultia Business Travel® is a Spanish company specialising in the integrated management of business travel (Travel Management Company). Thanks to Destinux®, its differentiated solution based on cloud-based software with a personalised consultancy service (Personal Travel Assistant), it offers a comprehensive solution for the management of business travel. In addition to managing the needs of meetings, incentives, congresses and events (MICE) that the company needs.
The company, with Spanish capital and founded in 2010, currently has offices in Spain and Portugal. The Growth Stage startup has integrated in its powerful management system nearly 3 million hotels, more than 600 airlines, 27 car rental companies around the world and private transfers in more than 160 countries, RENFE, Iryo and taxis and VTC in more than 90 states, achieving online connectivity and efficiency that stand out in the business travel market.