Experience Driven Vision.

Kovena is powered by a leadership team of industry veterans spanning Payments, Travel and Technology. For decades, they’ve lived, built, scaled and transformed global platforms from the ground up. They inherently understand the friction points across the travel payments ecosystem, from booking flows and data, integration and distribution channels, to localization requirements.

Driven by the purpose to create more human connections, and to foster the growth and 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.

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 & Chief Executive Officer

Jamie Collins

Co-Founder & Chief Payments Officer

Adrian Cordiner

Executive Director & Chief Marketing Officer

James Malcolm

Chief Financial Officer

Pargol Mohsenpour

Chief Operations Officer

Patrick Shiels

Chief Revenue Officer

Tuan Ngoc

Chief Technology Officer

Binh Nguyen

Chief Product Officer

Meet our Team

We’re a globally connected team that thrives on moving fast, keeping things simple, and showing up for each other. We aim to be good humans first, lead with empathy and humility, take real ownership, and aren’t afraid to speak up to make things better and collectively deliver work we’re proud of.

We’re here to remove friction from travel so people can experience the rich connection and learning that travel brings. We start by doing that for each other. It’s high trust, low ego, plenty of momentum, and a lot of fun!

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

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