FTI GROUP
Rowena Smith has extensive experience in talent acquisition and employer branding. Rowena is currently the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Employer Brand at FTI GROUP, leading the strategy and positioning of FTI GROUP as an Employer of Choice. Prior to this, Rowena worked at Optimal Resourcing as a Senior Associate. Rowena also spent a significant part of their career at Emirates, where they held various roles including Enterprise Effectiveness Manager, Global Business Process Lead, and Human Resource Specialist in Talent Acquisition. Rowena's responsibilities at Emirates included supporting HR development projects, optimizing talent management, and coordinating recruitment marketing initiatives. Before joining Emirates, they worked as an Organizational Development Consultant at Optum (Previously OSA Group).
Rowena Smith completed a Bachelor of Psychology degree from the University of Western Australia from 1993 to 1996. Later, they pursued a Master of Management degree with a specialization in Human Resource Management at the same university from 1997 to 1998.
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FTI GROUP
With its brands, the FTI GROUP is the fourth largest travel operator in Europe. FTI Touristik, as well as the last minute operator 5vorFlug, the rental car broker driveFTI, the online portal fly.de, the largest German language tour operator LAL Sprachreisen, the Destination Management Company Meeting Point International, which is active in over 40 destinations worldwide, and the operator for promotional products BigXtra, belong to the FTI GROUP. Under the umbrella of the hospitality company Meeting Point Hotels the hotel brands LABRANDA Hotels & Resorts, Design Plus Hotels, Kairaba Hotels & Resorts, Club Sei and Lemon & Soul are bundled. The consolidator FTI Ticketshop is responsible for scheduled flight ticket sales while FTI Cruises bundles the cruise business. Around 10,000 travel agencies sell FTI products throughout Germany. The FTI GROUP has consolidated its franchise systems in its subsidiary Touristik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (TVG). Under the TVG the Group brings together its franchise systems with the brands sonnenklar.TV Reisebüro, 5vorFlug and Flugbörse. Other important distribution channels are the travel shopping channel sonnenklar.TV and the British online B2B provider for hotel bookings, Youtravel. In Austria FTI is represented by a subsidiary in Linz, while FTI Touristik AG is located in Basel, Switzerland. The French tour operator FTI Voyages has been part of the FTI Group since 2012. With FTI Reizen the Group is also active in the Netherlands since 2016. The service center erf24 and travianet and touristic24handle bookings from the FTI GROUP and external customers. Headquartered in Munich, the FTI GROUP employs 10,000 staff worldwide and achieved sales volumes of 3,6 billion euros in the fiscal year 2017/18