UH alumna rises to high of worldwide enterprise journey business

As a scholar, Suzanne Neufang gravitated to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa due to its location and connection to the Pacific. Today, she works to strengthen the bonds that maintain the enterprise journey business collectively because the CEO of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).

“Having grown up in the middle of the continent in North America, it was so enriching for me to have such a view of not just Asia, but the Pacific, and then Hawaiʻi’s history in and amongst that,” stated Neufang.

Inspired by UH professors

While finding out communication at UH, Neufang turned fascinated by telecommunications—particularly how very important expertise is for a geographically remoted island chain. Encouraged by her professors, she researched and submitted a paper that was chosen for dialogue on the Pacific Telecommunications Conference in Waikīkī. Her thesis examined Integrated Services Digital Network, an early digital normal for transmitting voice and information over telephone strains that was as soon as seen as the following stage of broadband.

“Thinking about what technology has to do with something as old as human communication, I think without the professors and the students who are challenging each other, I don’t think I would have made it that far,” stated Neufang. “Both the theoretical as well as the practical was something that I enjoy mixing every day.”

Forging a path in communication industries

After graduating with a grasp’s diploma in communication from UH in 1992, Neufang spent a decade at Hawaiʻi Public Television and GTE Hawaiian Tel. That cemented her understanding and perception that communication and connection to others is integral to the human expertise.

“While telecom and broadcasting can be considered mediated connections, travel as a face-to-face or now as we say in-real-life connection, was a natural evolution for me to navigate towards professionally,” Neufang stated.

Neufang oversees the GBTA’s mission to ship neighborhood, studying and advocacy for business members worldwide. That contains delivering revolutionary business-to-business options to clients who want them. The instruments she discovered at UH assist to put the muse wanted to make connections on a world scale.