About Cendyn

As CEO, Blaha will lead the company’s plans for continued strategic growth and play a direct role in fulfilling its vision for customers and employees across the globe. A graduate of West Point Military Academy and the University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Blaha is an astute leader who brings extensive CEO and executive-level experience to Cendyn from several industry-leading technology companies, including Khoros, Lone Wolf Technologies, PeopleAdmin, and Aptean.

Michael oversees global marketing and eCommerce at Cendyn. He has over 25 years of international management experience, working with companies such as White Lodging and KSL Capital. His specialties lie in both B2B and B2C marketing, digital and mobile implementations, all with a proven track record of success. Michael focuses on managing with an emphasis on profitable growth through an increase in CLV, while constantly reiterating that creative marketing is only successful when held accountable to the results it produces. Michael currently resides in San Diego with his wife and two beautiful daughters.

John is responsible for driving Cendyn’s growth and expansion across the globe. Prior to joining Cendyn, John’s 20+ years in the hospitality industry has been focused in sales, marketing, distribution and hospitality technology. John has held a number of senior management positions at companies including eRevMax, Pegasus Solutions, HBSi and Global Hotel Alliance. John has sat on the E-Commerce Committee for the European Tour Operator Association (ETOA), been a member of Meeting Professional International (MPI), the Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA) and Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG). He currently sits on the Sales Advisory Board of HSMAI Europe. Prior to joining the hospitality industry, John was a professional tennis coach.

B Papdakis, brings a wealth of experience to her role, having previously served in top-level financial positions with organizations such as Precisely, Eze Software and Velcro Group across the global professional landscape. As a Masters in Taxation graduate of The D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, along with her background in PE-backed growth and acquisitions, advanced multinational tax, debt and treasury management, she brings an unrivaled skill set and peerless attention to detail to Cendyn. When she isn’t helping Cendyn expand its reach, B enjoys running, restoring antique furniture, and spending time with her husband and daughters at their home in New Hampshire.

As Chief of Staff, Kendall helps establish both long-term objectives and the day-to-day operational cadence of the business while acting as a cooperative partner across all Cendyn’s functional departments. Kendall earned her BA in Economics from the University of Virginia. Prior to Cendyn, she held various roles at Workday, P2 Energy Solutions, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. While at Workday, she was named North American Large Enterprise Services Executive of the Year, and both co-founded and lead the first fully Virtual Employee Belonging Council chapter to help connect employees outside of the office.

Jenny is responsible for leading the Human Resources function and programs to ensure Cendyn recruits, engages, retains, and develops our talented associates at all levels. Jenny has nearly 30 years of experience in Human Resource leadership focusing on delivering results for service based high growth companies in a number of industries such as hospitality, professional services, legal outsourcing, restaurant and retail.  She has deep experience in mergers, acquisitions, and integrations focusing on organizational leadership development, talent recruitment, and retention. Jenny graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and holds Senior Human Resources Professional (SPHR) and SHRM – SCP certifications. Jenny also in a member of the Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta Board of Directors.

Alifya brings over 20 years of legal experience to Cendyn, including experience in commercial law, M&A, intellectual property, data protection and privacy, employment law, corporate governance, and litigation. Cendyn is the fourth company at which Alifya has led the legal department, having previously filled the role at car2go, Khoros, and ICON. Before taking her acumen in-house, Alifya was a litigator in both New York and Texas, where she focused on cases involving securities law, commercial law, and product liability. Born and raised in London, England, she now lives in Austin, Texas with her husband Josh and two daughters. Curtin loves dessert, traveling, and running (in that order).

Chris Egan is responsible for product management and the company’s product strategy. He brings extensive experience in enterprise software to Cendyn after having filled the role of Chief Strategy Officer at Lone Wolf Technologies. During his time at Lone Wolf, Chris was responsible for Product, UI/UX, and Corporate Development/M&A. Prior to that, he has served in varying capacities for organizations such as PeopleAdmin, Monitor Deloitte, and NASA. Chris resides in Austin, Texas, and is a graduate of Baylor University. Outside of work, he enjoys powerlifting, travel, and golf.

Alan has more than 25 years of experience across B2B enterprise SaaS, cloud computing, technology applications, and professional/managed services. His expertise is focused on aligning customer services, customer success, and operations, with an emphasis on product/offerings adoption, time to value, and customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Cendyn, Alan was Global Client Success Leader for Rimini Street, a $400 million publicly traded company focused on third party Enterprise Support and Services for IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and SAP products, with savings of up to 90% on the total cost of Support. Additionally, Alan served as COO at Mitratech, an enterprise SaaS company focused on legal, risk, and compliance, as well as in executive roles at Apttus (now Conga), Sungard Availability Services, Polycom, ACS Xerox, IBM Corio, Hackett Answerthink, and Oracle. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from Franklin & Marshall College, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Drexel University.

Gautam Lulla brings 20 years of solid industry experience spanning the breadth of the hotel reservations and distribution technology industry. He has invaluable international experience, having worked on three different continents: the Taj Group of Hotels in India, Pegasus Solutions in the U.S. and Amadeus IT in France. He joined Travel Tripper in 2008 as one of the early founders, where, as CEO, he spearheaded its evolution into the industry’s most innovative provider of hotel distribution and marketing solutions, leading its acquisition of and integration with Pegasus in 2019. In 2022, Gautam took the opportunity to merge Pegasus with Cendyn in order for the two organizations to realize a common ambition of delivering a state-of-the-art technology platform for the hotel industry. At Cendyn, Gautam is responsible for overseeing the technological innovation process, including strategic goals, methods, and products for the company and our global customer base.

Subho is responsible for successfully leading, accelerating and expanding Cendyn’s India footprint. Subho is an astute leader of new business set-ups, transformations and turnarounds in PE Owned and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Cendyn, Subho founded ROYB, a start-up for Online Reputation of Companies. Before his entrepreneurial stint, Subho worked at Open Solutions, Fiserv and ADP in strategic leadership roles across multiple geographies. He earned his Post Graduate Certificate from Xavier School of Management and his Bachelors in Commerce from Kolkata University. He is a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Dev-Ops Master, CISSO, PRINCE2 Practitioner and a Certified Risk Professional. Subho currently resides in Hyderabad with his wife and two sons. Subho is an ardent traveller and enjoys playing soccer & cricket.