Similar to the fascinating industry we enjoy covering every day, Tnooz is also evolving as we enter our seventh year this September.
Our hackathons are growing in size and scope, with São Paolo, China, Hamburg, New York, and Bangalore still to come this year. Our sponsored articles program gives voice to the industry's key players, as well as to their critics and disrupters.
We continue to be the only media brand that really covers the engine room of travel – the technology and processes behind the scenes that make the industry tick – through our editorial coverage and array of online events.
But we are also ambitious and have some exciting plans for the next phase of the Tnooz story.
To accomplish this we are making some changes to our team.
Leading the editorial and content strategy and operations of Tnooz on that new journey will be Sean O'Neill, who today is named our new editor-in-chief after three superb years on the reporting team.
Before joining us, Sean was a columnist for BBC Travel, a senior editor of BudgetTravel.com, and an associate editor at Kiplinger's magazine.
Sean, our outstanding editorial and sales teams and CEO Gene Quinn are already hard at work planning to make Tnooz even more relevant to those who want to know how technology and its application defines and reshapes the world's biggest industry.
After six years at the helm, Kevin May has decided to step into a new role as senior editor alongside our other journalists.
Moving away from day-to-day management responsibilities will give Kev an opportunity to get his hands dirty once more and reignite his original passion as a journalist for investigative news reporting. He is also the author of an upcoming biography about another of his loves: electronic band Depeche Mode.
Kev will continue to represent Tnooz at events and he remains one of our co-founders and a part-owner of the company.
There will be a lot more to come in the months ahead as we share our vision, new products and ideas.
Stay tuned!