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Jeff Clarke

President and CEO, Travelport Inc.

Jeff Clarke is President and CEO of Travelport, and serves as a director on the Travelport Board of Directors, appointed in May 2006. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Orbitz Worldwide.

Jeff has 21 years of strategic, operational and financial experience with leading high-technology firms.

Prior to Travelport, Jeff was COO for CA (formerly Computer Associates), where he had responsibility for sales, services, business development, partnerships, alliances, finance and information technology.

Before joining CA, Jeff was executive vice president, global operations for Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), where he was responsible for the largest global supply chain and procurement operations in the technology industry. As executive vice president, Merger Integration, Jeff played a key role in integrating the operations, financials and cultures of HP and Compaq Computer Corporation, following the $19 billion merger of the two companies. He is widely credited with leading the team, which identified and captured more than $3.5 billion in savings.

Jeff began his career with Digital Equipment Corporation in 1985. He joined Compaq in 1998 following its acquisition of Digital and served in various positions of increasing responsibility in strategic finance before being appointed Compaq’s CFO in 2001.

Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a master's degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Jeff is a member of the UTStarcom Board of Directors, a NASDAQ listed firm; a board member of Red Hat, Inc., an NYSE listed firm; a member of the Board of Directors of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD); an executive committee member of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and a member of the Geneseo Foundation Board of Directors (Charitable Foundation for SUNY at Geneseo).