Graham Hills announced in his personal article that he’ll take a new role at Wego’s HQ in Singapore per June 2015. Thus, he would leave his position as Wego Indonesia’s Country Manager, leaving the opportunity for a replacement who’s been in digital business for five years and possesses exceptional understanding on mobile app landscape in Indonesia.
During his four years tenure in Wego, Hills has introduced Wego as a metasearch service in travel segment for Indonesian consumers. Along with the trend of online travel in Indonesia, Wego’s brand also gets elevated. Hills was also involved in Wego’s investment at Valadoo, including being a member of director board at the startup which offers travel packages.
Wego is proven to successfully become the regional leader of this sector. A survey by Nusaresearch done two months ago found out that Wego had quite well perception in term of hotel room and plane ticket booking in Indonesia, as only Traveloka, Tiket, and Agoda beat them. This is a quite remarkable achievement as Wego has actually no direct ticket to offer, since their business model only allows them to refer the users’ search result to booking service providers.
Wego’s competitors in metasearch, such as Skyscanner, HotelsCombined, and Trivago, basically come from Europe and Australia.
Hills who’s an Australian citizen spent most of his career in Southeast Asia. Prior joining Wego, he filled numerous positions at Yahoo! Southeast Asia. Well, good luck, Hills!
