Gett's new deputy CEO Andrew Verbitsky
Corporate ground transportation provider Gett has made three new senior appointments.
Andrew Verbitsky has been named as the company’s new deputy CEO and brings experience from a number of travel companies including Airbnb, KAYAK and Booking.com. He also worked as head of Europe at Softbank-backed hotel group OYO, driving the company’s rapid expansion in the region.
Yaki Zakai is Gett’s new chief technology officer, joining from Amazon Web Services where he led the solutions architect group, helping customers with their digital transformation and AWS architecture.
Prior to that, Zakai was CTO at HP Enterprise, with responsibility for all SaaS products. In the role of CTO, Zakai will help Gett deliver reliable cloud solutions to enterprise clients.
Erinn Leahey joins as global general manager of SaaS. Leahey established Uber for Business in Northern Europe and has also worked for SaaS platform Buddy Media and was regional VP in Salesforce's enterprise business unit.
Dave Waiser, Gett CEO, said: "At Gett, we are committed to making ground travel simpler, safer, and more efficient, taking the stress out of corporate travel. Andrew, Yaki and Erinn's appointments further demonstrate our commitment to establish and lead a new category in ground transportation, a market worth US$1.4 trillion globally."
In August, Gett signed a partnership deal with ride-hailing platform Ola in London.