Experience Driven Vision.

Kovena is powered by a leadership team of industry heavyweights spanning Payments, Travel and Technology. For decades, they’ve lived, built, scaled and transformed global platforms from the inside. They inherently understand the friction points across the travel payments ecosystem, from supplier acquisition and distribution to settlement, optimisation and scale.

Driven by the purpose to create more human, seamless connections, to foster the growth and spread of cultural understanding through remarkable travel experiences, Kovena’s leadership team’s passion, deep domain expertise, commercial acumen and hands-on execution experience position us to deliver this with clarity and conviction.

Payments
Travel and Technology

Empowered to Deliver.

Kovena operates with a unique inverted team structure, placing the Guest at the very top of our organisation, followed closely by our delivery teams who support them every day.

Our philosophy is simple: leadership exists to empower, equip and support our people, providing the clarity, tools and backing they need to deliver exceptional experiences to our partners and their guests at every touchpoint.

Driven by the purpose to create more human, seamless connections, to foster the growth and spread of cultural understanding through remarkable travel experiences, Kovena’s leadership team’s passion, deep domain expertise, commercial acumen and hands-on execution experience position us to deliver this with clarity and conviction.

Meet our Leaders

Samuel Rutledge

Co-Founder & CEO

Jamie Collins

Co-Founder & CPO

Adrian Cordiner

Executive Director & CMO

James Malcolm

CFO

Pargol Mohsenpour

COO

Patrick Shiels

CRO

Tuan Ngoc

CTO

Binh Nguyen

CPO

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  • Deliver value quickly with with an average implementation time of just two weeks.