GBTA Foundation Names 2025 WINiT Top 50 Honorees Recognizing Women within the Business Travel Industry – Global Business Travel Association

GBTA WINiT Summit and Gala will highlight development, mentorship and innovation for ladies and allies within the journey business on October 23^rd in New York City

The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), by way of its cause-led arm the GBTA Foundation, has introduced the 2025 WINiT Top 50, honoring business leaders, rising expertise and company champions who elevate and rejoice ladies within the enterprise journey and conferences sector.

Now in its 11^th 12 months, GBTA WINiT is devoted to advancing fairness and alternative for ladies throughout the enterprise journey business. It gives management improvement, mentoring connections, networking and public recognition to speed up profession development. In current years, this system has expanded, and the WINiT Summit, Awards and Gala now function a high-visibility platform for recognizing exemplary leaders, allies and company champions.

This 12 months’s Top 50 winners maintain a variety of positions within the journey business and signify 36 firms from throughout the globe.

The WINiT Top 50 for 2025 honorees and their affiliated firms are listed under, throughout 4 classes and standards for his or her recognition (in alphabetical order by final title):

Women Innovating the Way We Travel, honoring 13 visionaries and people who encourage others to affix their efforts:

• Angela  Arntz, Unisys
• Mia Beltran, Fox World Travel
• Nicole Chowning, Airlines Reporting Corporation
• Megin Dressel, Keller
• Beth Gibson, Avis Budget Group
• Jessica Gillingham, Abode Worldwide
• Sarah Kuberry Martino, DirectTravel
• Sheryl Pflaum, Collinson Group
• Tami Pharr, Zillow
• Cassandra Rollins, Emburse
• Dana Sample, Delta Air Lines
• Sangitha Shetty, Tata Communications
• Heather Wright, BCD Travel

Global Leaders with Global Impact, recognizing 9 leaders who’ve made a major impression on a worldwide scale:

• Claire Barrie, Synergy
• Roberta Billè, Sandoz
• Michelle Degenhardt, Flight Centre Travel Group
• Claudia Florean, UVET American Express
• Sasha Johnson, United Airlines
• Michelle Jolley, FCM Travel
• Sonia Menda, Micron Tech
• Christine Sikes, DirectTravel
• Amanda Vining, Corporate Traveler

Rising Female Leaders, celebrating 16 early profession professionals who’re high-performing future leaders:

• Gabriella Antoniotti, FCM Meetings & Events
• Patricia Ascencio, Amex GBT
• Ashley Clarke, Enterprise Mobility
• Jenna Collura, PwC
• Christine Connolley, BCD Travel
• Joy Donnelly, Amex GBT
• Jordan  Jones, DirectTravel
• Kristin Lynch, BCD Travel
• Haley McIntyre, Placemakr
• Chelsea Mullin, Visiting Media
• Katherine Quiroz, National Corporate Housing
• Bianca Rank, BWH Hotels
• Mahua Sen, Amex GBT
• Courtney Sheard, Cenovus
• Kellie Stanbury, CTM
• Julie Stuckey, BCD Travel

FollowHer: Legends and Mentors, recognizing 12 exemplary leaders who’re dedicated to advancing ladies within the business:

• Sue Calais, Enterprise Mobility
• Karen Catlin, United Airlines
• Kim Conway, ASK4 Group
• Ronda Dean, F5
• Sabrina Kronk, Vanderbilt University
• Stacey Mack, Conferma
• Kate Nummikoski, Hyatt
• Tammy Schneider, Amex GBT
• Ann Huckstadt Smith, Amex GBT
• Eva-Lena Storbacka, Amex GBT
• Katherine Tomasi, BCD Travel
• Samantha Unell, Southwest Airlines

An further seven Pinnacle and Leadership Awards shall be introduced on the GBTA WINiT Gala on Thursday, October 23, 2025, from 6:30-10:00 p.m. ET at Civic Hall on East 14^th Street in New York City.

The Awards Ceremony and Gala comply with the WINiT Summit. Designed as a dynamic, full-day expertise, the daylong occasion – with the theme this 12 months of “The Power of Possibility” – invitations individuals to interact in high-impact programming rooted in WINiT’s core pillars: mentorship, skilled improvement and neighborhood. Attendees will discover new frameworks to interrupt obstacles and broaden management alternatives.

“Each year, WINiT gives us the chance to recognize and amplify voices that are reshaping our industry,” stated Bev Heinritz, Director, Foundation Programs on the GBTA Foundation. “‘The Power of Possibility’ embodies our belief that when women and allies lead boldly, we all move forward. I can’t wait to see how the 2025 Summit and Awards will fuel new momentum and relationships.”

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