Drew Niemeyer

Drew joined Smarte Carte in 2019 as the President and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Smarte Carte, Drew worked for fifteen years at gategroup, the leading global provider of in-flight products and services with ~$5B in sales and 43,000 employees across more than 200 operating units in 60 countries. In his time at gategroup, Drew served in multiple functional and operational roles across multiple geographies in North America and Europe in both corporate and divisional capacities. His two most recent roles included serving as 1) the Chief Commercial & Corporate Development Officer where he was responsible for global sales, marketing, and M&A and 2) as the President of North America where he had P&L leadership for the $1.2B division with 13,000 employees across 40 locations. During his time at gategroup, Drew served as a member of the Executive Management Board and played an integral role in the turn-around, stabilization, and growth of the company.

Prior to gategroup, Drew worked as a consultant for Oliver Wyman/Mercer Management Consulting where he advised senior leadership on critical strategic and operational issues across multiple functions (M&A, Growth Strategy, Channel/Brand, Operational Efficiency, Organizational Design, Procurement) and industries (Aviation, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Private Equity, and Banking). He led consulting teams within compressed timelines to develop practical and sustainable solutions through structured, hypothesis-driven problem solving and fact-based analysis.

Drew has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar.