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Chris Bolding

Chris Bolding

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Product Management Leader ✯ Authentic People Manager ✯ Driving Growth & Propelling Competitive Market Advantage

  • Education

    • Ursuline Academy of Dallas

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    • Southern Methodist University

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      Graduate Finance Certificate Program

    • Texas A&M University

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      BA Speech Communications

    • Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business

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      MBA Marketing and Strategy

      Activities and Societies: President - Marketing Club; Editor - Jones School Newspaper

  • Experience

    • Dallas Market Center

      Aug 1991 - Aug 1994
      Advertising Manager

    • The Hart Agency

      Aug 1994 - Aug 1995
      Public Relations Manager

    • The Phillips Agency

      Aug 1995 - Aug 1996
      Advertising Account Executive

    • Compaq Computer Corporation

      May 1997 - May 1998
      Product Manager

    • Sabre Corporation

      Jun 1998 - Sept 1999
      Product Manager

    • Pegasus

      Oct 1999 - Feb 2006
      Senior Director, Product Management/Strategy

      ► Created first product management team for company with clear ROI-based prioritization and roadmaps. ► Vetted acquisition targets for portfolio fit, resulting in acquisitions that added $30 million in annual revenue.

    • HomeAway is now Vrbo

      Feb 2006 - Jan 2007
      Product Management Consultant

      ► Leveraged prior experience and comprehensive knowledge to submit patent for an online payment solution. ► Advocated Agile methodologies to improve delivery of product features.

    • Sabre Corporation

      Jan 2007 - May 2023
      Director, Product Management

      ► Managed and mentored a 7-person global product management team.► Designed program to more fully engage customers in the future design of new airline reservation solutions, garnering interest from top airline customers.► Conceptualized, designed and implemented a model to assess business value of proposed product enhancements; maximizing investment, improving deliverables and facilitating 5% sales growth for a mature product. ► Led strategic portfolio alignment that orchestrated product divestiture, and streamlined technology investment and development of new partnerships, delivering savings of $10 million annually.► Developed partnership selection model and leveraged the model to bring on new strategic partners allowing the company to go to market with an end-to-end solution with no incremental investment.► Pioneered a key strategy for entering the enterprise hospitality technology market leveraging the company’s core solutions, securing interest from 5 of the top 7 hotel chain conglomerates.► Managed large scale implementations of internal and third-party integrated products for both American Express and Preferred Hotels, generating more than $50 million in the first 5 years. Show less

    • CREW

      Dec 2023 - now
      Founding Member

  • Licenses & Certifications