Lisa Oxley

Lisa joined Kennedy Travel in 1991. She joined as a junior retail travel consultant where she enjoyed almost 9 years working in the retail division before joining the corporate travel team in 1999. During her time in travel, Lisa has taken a number of training courses, including British Airways fares & ticketing courses – No’s 1 & 2 and the ATOC (Rail) course.

Like everyone else, Lisa enjoys travelling and her favourite destinations are New York City and Cyprus.

Karen O’Neill

Karen has worked in travel since leaving school, having initially worked as a holiday representative in Turkey, Tunisia and Cyprus for a large tour operator before returning to the wonderful British weather (which she missed so much!!) to work in retail travel for 5 years. She then moved into business travel and has worked in that sector of the industry since 1995, joining Kennedy Travel in 1997.

During her time in travel, Karen has taken a number of training courses, including British Airways fares & ticketing courses – No’s 1 & 2.

Karen has travelled extensively in Europe as well as the United States, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, the Middle East and New Zealand.

Kim Greenwood

Kim has worked in the travel industry since 1978, starting in the retail sector, but moving over to business travel in 1981. Having clocked up over 20 years’ service with a large travel management company, Kim joined the Kennedy team so she brings with her a wealth of experience working with accounts, big and small, and in a variety of different industries. During her time in travel, Kim has taken a number of training courses including BA fares and ticketing (I and II) and several customer service courses.

As is true of everyone who works in travel, Kim loves travelling abroad whenever she has the opportunity, and her favourite holiday destination is Turkey.

Robert Myers

Robert has worked in the travel industry since 1977. His early years were with an independent travel agency with offices throughout Yorkshire and Lancashire. In 1980 he moved to Manchester to be part of a team who set up the American Express Travel office.

This experience was the perfect springboard for Robert and in 1984 he joined Kennedy in our North America Travel Service division. He progressed to become manager and opened our Nottingham and Manchester offices in 1988 and 1991 respectively.

Robert was instrumental in the development of our Kennedy Media Division and now has overall responsibility for both Kennedy Media and Kennedy Commercial Travel departments.

Outside his busy work schedule Robert enjoys relaxing to his eclectic taste in music. He has a passion for gardening, growing an array of fruit and vegetables and he also has a love of history, especially pre Columbian civilisations and Native American cultures, oh and we forgot to mention his love of travelling (not surprisingly)!

Mark Standage

Mark started work in the travel industry at Deutsches Reisebuero in London in 1986 initially selling continental rail but eventually moving to worldwide travel. He joined Kennedy Travel in 1990, originally as one of our Agency Sales team but he eventually moved over to set up and head our IT department. Mark’s a very keen traveller (he’s visited 65 countries!) and is an avid rail enthusiast, Leeds United Fan and Real Ale aficionado. He enjoys playing badminton & golf and some of his other interests are listening to music, gardening, history and Sci-Fi!

Jane Watkinson

Jane’s career in travel started in 1987 with a Saturday job selling foreign exchange. This became a full time role when she finished university, however in 1991 she took the opportunity to travel New Zealand, where she visited family and explored the country. She came back to the UK in late 1991 and returned to selling foreign exchange, however the ‘wanderlust’ bug had bitten her so in 1992 she travelled to Cyprus where she spent a year working in the reservations department for a holiday company, then in 1993 she spent a season as a holiday representative in Menorca.

Jane joined Kennedy in 1994 as an Admin Assistant, moving in to the Accounts Department in 1996. In 2001 Jane returned to education and spent 2 years studying for her AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians). She returned to Kennedy in 2003 as Accounts Manager. In her spare time Jane enjoys walking and being outdoors.

Ruby Briggs

Ruby joined Kennedy in 1976 as typist and part-time book-keeper but soon realised her passion for creating and selling holidays, particularly to the USA & Canada. Having become Assistant Branch Manager in 1979, she moved on to be Branch Manager in 1980. In the mid 80’s Ruby became Sales & Marketing Director and worked closely with Kennedy’s past Chairman, Ed Button, in the development of the company; growing it from a single branch travel agency to a specialist travel organisation focusing on business travel as well as tailor-made leisure travel and the creation of the UK’s leading specialist tour operator for luxury holidays to the USA & Canada – North America Travel Service. In 2006 Ruby became group Managing Director.

Sue Roberts