We discuss today with Bruce Yoxsimer. Bruce is the CEO of BTP Automation Inc.
BTP Automation is positioned to disrupt legacy travel program management through a modern, intelligent, and automated performance index. Bruce, can you start off by explaining just how BTP Automation will do this?
First and foremost, BTP is committed to transforming the industry but doing it through a holistic approach that benefits all key entities in the corporate travel procurement process. BTP is a data, data analytics, and automation Company. Without going too deep into the technical details, BTP analyses all of a company’s travel data, find the inefficiencies, and automate the actions necessary to save money. Companies using our platform today are saving, on average, ten percent of their travel spend. Ultimately, BTP brings a level of trust back into the community for buyers, suppliers, and the travel management companies, who, in this case, are the intermediaries. This is real change.
You have more than 25 years of travel industry experience. How has this helped to shape BTP Automation and its services?
In any industry, solid domain experience and a broad perspective allow people a level of clarity when assessing problems and potential solutions. With that in mind, BTP has focused on adding team members who have a deep understanding of our industry, the existing issues, and inefficiencies and are motivated to build solutions that create real, transformational change.
How has travel changed over the course of your career?
Actually? Not as much as you might think. There have been some obvious big moments, such as the advent of internet travel and all that it represents, e-tickets vs. paper, and many economic machinations around who pays whom for what services. But in the end, the overall process is the same as it was twenty-five years ago, consisting of overwhelming manual processes, a lack of real-time actionable data, and inefficiencies that cause a lot of money to…