our people
The Walshe Group’s success has been built on a depth of talent and expertise aligned with genuine passion and dedication to our client brands. We are proud of the skills and diversity of our employee group and their commitment to both the Walshe Group and our customers.
Each of our valued client brands has a senior account manager and dedicated team. Brand independence is assured, but with collective strength in the combined network of relationships across Australia and New Zealand trade and media.
meet the team
Jacqui grew up in a tourism industry family, joining The Walshe Group in 1987 after graduating from university with a commerce degree and subsequent MBA. As second generation in the family business, Jacqui has had to deal with the highs and lows, global shocks and challenges which regularly beset the industry. Having successfully navigated and emerged strongly from the pandemic, Jacqui remains committed to the challenge. Her particular strengths lie in maintaining an entrepreneurial mindset and bringing ongoing energy and rigour to the business.
Jacqui has always enjoyed being involved in industry affairs and to keep educating herself, Her non-executive director credentials have enabled her to contribute at senior level within both the Australian and New Zealand tourism industry.
jacqui walshe, executive chair
Michael Fletcher
National Sales Manager
All Nippon Airways
Stephen Tanner
General Manager
New Zealand
Javad Azizi
Commercial Manager Oman Air
Jennifer Gaskin
GM Destinations
Australia
Nigel Bale
General Manager
Lufthansa Group NZ
Sonia Cordero
Group Financial Controller
Nicole Bennett
Commercial Manager Delta Air Lines
Anil Rodricks
Manager
Lufthansa Group AU
Darragh Walshe
GM Destinations
New Zealand
our leadership team
We have a specialised sales and marketing team for each of our esteemed airline partners. Our expertise is in helping full-service airlines find ways to increase revenue and yield. We hire based on customer passion and market relationship strength, which enables us to use a broad network of contacts to generate the opportunities that matter to our client partners.
our airline sales & Marketing team
Our customer solutions specialists have a lot of experience and can solve complex problems for our high performing trade and priority customers. As common issues can be dealt with by overseas centres and service automation, our specialist teams concentrate on the highly technical, challenging and urgent issues that our key customers still need resolved quickly and correctly.
our airline services team
The team offers comprehensive marketing solutions to our tourism board partners, helping them with trade relationships; innovative marketing campaigns and events; digital services and a common vision for supporting destinations to increase their visitors in a way that respects the local culture, community and environment.
our tourism board team
We have a small yet energetic public relations team that collaborates with the rest of the business to secure frequent coverage for our client brands in trade and consumer media. We value the role of effective communication strategies in enhancing marketing messages and brand awareness and we are especially proud of the quality of our media contacts and the exposure we deliver for our partners.
