About Jetabroad
At Jetabroad, we use tomorrow’s technology to find you the best deal today.
Our state-of-the-art online booking system finds you hundreds of airfares and flight combinations you often won’t see anywhere else. Whether your travel plans are simple or highly complex, we can devise an inspired solution to get you to your destination. Unlike many of our competitors, we show you the complete range of travel options from over 500 airlines, so you can find the flight that’s right for you. Plus with Jetabroad, the first price you see is what you pay. No extra surprise fees will be added on during the booking process.
Jetabroad is led by a team of business professionals with extensive international experience in offline and Internet-based travel as well as consumer marketing. And as you explore the world, our expert customer service team is here to help you with any changes to your itinerary.
Meet the Management Team
Darin Walters
Managing Director
Darin’s job is to lead an organisation that aims to provide the best online experience for customers shopping for international flights. He has held a number of senior management roles at major Australian businesses. From 1995 to 2003, he worked at Blackmores, Australia’s leading natural healthcare company, as the General Manager Sales and Marketing and then as Managing Director and CEO. More recently, he was CEO Exhibition Australia/New Zealand for the Hoyts Cinema Group. Darin also worked with The Boston Consulting Group. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of the University of New South Wales.
Paul Shepanski
Director
Paul brings the wisdom of over 20 years’ experience in senior international management roles to Jetabroad. From the late 1980s, he worked as a consultant, manager and partner with The Boston Consulting Group. His clients were some of the region’s top consumer businesses, including leaders in the retail, banking, telecommunications and travel sectors. He also served as the Managing Partner of BCG’s Auckland office in 1997 and 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he was Group General Manager e-Commerce for Qantas Airways. There he led the comprehensive redevelopment of the airline’s website and, with Alex Snead, initiated Asian Internet travel business Zuji.
Benjamin Chong
Director
Benjamin is an entrepreneur and investor who has built Internet-related businesses for over fifteen years. In that time, he has built up a number of successful Internet businesses from scratch. They include Online Agility, an incubator and developer of online concepts, and iMega Group, an online marketing group. He has also consulted on ecommerce strategy, online marketing and technology for clients such as Volvo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sony and Toyota. Benjamin is now a Partner at Right Click Capital. Benjamin’s past accolades include being named National Young Business Person of the Year by Young Achievement Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales.
William Fuqua
Head of Engineering & Technology
Will is Jetabroad’s technology guru, leading a high-powered tech team out of Bangkok, Thailand. Together, the team provides the development force behind Jetabroad’s travel platform, combining the latest technology and an understanding of the travel market to create complex, competitive itineraries packaged in a simple, user-friendly experience. Will got started as a software engineering consultant in the health and insurance industries, before finding his way to the world of fast-paced travel in 2014. He is an avid teacher and is most at home when leading his team members in building solutions and tackling the hard problems.
