Travel and lifestyle have been Anne’s drivers for ever! Her fashion marketing and business administration education took her to Paris, New York and Firenze, and after having achieved experience in retail at luggage multinational Samsonite and in duty free at pearl jeweller Misaki for 6 years, she entered the airline market early 2008.

Both as VP Innovation and Customer Experience at global caterer Gategroup, Anne has accumulated 10 years experience in the aviation sector and more than 15 years in creative product development & brand strategy. Her key areas of expertise are designing and delivering customer-centric solutions that enhance the travel experience. Anne has set-up the Gategroup innovation centre of excellence and led product development, marketing, key campaigns, innovation and transformational programs in both B2B and B2C environments. Anne has been member of the Board of Directors of Servair.

In April 2018, Anne founded IN Air Travel Experience and her dream is to help transform airlines into customer-centric, sustainable and dramatically different travel experience providers.

Anne-Céline breathes food and design throughout her career and life. Raised in a fine cuisine family, she quickly turned to co-hosting infamous restaurants in the Netherlands next to her Art Studies. Driven by astute business acumen and a goal getting mentality, she continued as an Art Director to later combine strategy with design, food, hospitality culture, innovations and complex operations.

At Gategroup she worked as a Director Innovation & Experience Strategy contributing to the transformational change in airline food. In her private life she currently lives in Amsterdam and travels through-out Europe, to keep inspired about cultures, travel habits and experiences.