Neville Powell informed us that our friend and former colleague David Rofe has just passed away. Here is his message:
David was among the first group of Account Managers selected when the Marketing Department was first instituted back in the late 1980‘s He was previously with BA
The funeral will be held at Slough crematorium on Wednesday 13th May at 1300 and there is a limit of 10 persons who have been notified.
With this in mind his wife Pat wishes to hold a memorial for David later in the year when conditions allow. I will give you the details when known.
Brgds Neville Powell
We express to his wife Pat and his family our most sincere condolences.
I joined SITA Paris in June 1978 as an engineer in the Technical Studies department which was then managed by Georges Giraudbit. After developping planning tools for the HLN and later the DTN, I led the design and implementation of the new routing algorithm of the DTN.
Later my team delivered the strategy and specification for migrating the network from airline specific protocols to open standards, and whichalso served for the RFP for the MTN.
After working on developing projects for non-airline customers, I moved to SITA Geneva in 1999, in marketing and later fiance departments.
In 2004 i left SITA to join IATA in Geneva.
With IATA I first worked on launching and developing a new business based on providing credit card payment services to travel agencies. Then I moved to IT, in charge of all data management for successfully.implementing SAP at IATA. Once that project was over I joined the Cargo department at IATA, in charge of Technical developments.
Having worked both at SITA and IATA has been a very unique experience for me!
