Appointments

 Travelstart

has appointed

Jerome Touze

as chief

marketing

officer based

in Cape Town.

Jerome left

his role as

coo of WAYN.com, part of

the Lastminute.com Group,

in March. “Jerome is an

online travel pioneer,” said

Stephan Ekbergh, founder

and ceo of Travelstart. “We

are making travel simpler

for business and leisure

travellers in Africa and he

brings a mix of creativity

and entrepreneurial flair to

the mission.”

Previously Jerome

co-founded travel social

networking site WAYN.com

(now part of the LastMinute.

com group), where he built

the world’s largest travel

and lifestyle-focused social

networking community with

over 25 million users. Prior

to that he was a senior

consultant at Accenture in

London where he worked

in the communications and

high-tech division for clients

such as Microsoft and

British Telecom.