Brian Beard

President DVI, Inc.

Brian is widely known as a key industry influencer and technology trendsetter based on his strong and diverse background that includes leadership roles at GE Power Systems, Toyota, Amadeus, and Travel and Transport. He has led breakthrough projects in transaction processing, supply chain management, large project implementations, data warehousing and business intelligence for e-commerce, mobile and emerging technologies. Brian is an avid technologist that embraces change and believes appropriately implemented technology solves many of today’s problems. 

Brian founded Data Visualization Intelligence, Inc. (DVI) in late 2016 to develop a viable solution for the data challenges in the travel industry. The next year, Brian led DVI to win the People’s Choice Business Travel Innovator Award at the yearly BTN Innovate conference.  Brian has spoken at past GBTA and regional BTA events, technology webinars, product launches for major technology companies, BTN events and more. He was recently listed as one of 2018’s top innovators for the Business Travel Industry.