Kathy Rust

Director, Global Travel Services NetApp

Kathy Rust and her team created a comprehensive global travel program to support over 10,000 NetApp employees in 45 countries.  In the past 8 years, the new services and tools launched resulted in better control over spend and high customer satisfaction.  Her focus is now optimizing the travelers’ end to end experience and improving their well-being.  Prior to joining NetApp, Kathy developed and implemented a strategic meetings management program at Washington Mutual over a 4 year period.  Kathy managed a variety of global travel and meetings programs for Microsoft for over 10 years.  She expects the pace and magnitude of change in the coming years will once again reshape how NetApp delivers travel services.