Simon Beeching
Chairman at Steppes Travel
Gerrards Cross, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Beeching is an experienced chairman and executive with over three decades of leadership in travel, tourism and related tech businesses, blending Oxford academic rigor with INSEAD business training. He has a strong track record growing and exiting companies—from scaling WEXAS and Simpson Travel to steering Syntec to acquisition—while founding sustainability-focused ventures like Travelwatch and early championing of sustainable tourism. As current Chairman of Equator Learning & Travel Uni and Non‑Exec at Steppes Travel, he combines commercial strategy, e-learning innovation and positive‑impact travel thinking. A people-focused developer of talent and industry programmes, he has helped shape education initiatives including a Travel Industry Masters at Regent’s University. Unusually for a sector executive, his background spans both hands-on operational MD roles and board-level turnarounds, giving him a rare mix of practical growth delivery and long-term sector stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MA Modern Languages, MA Modern Languages at University of OxfordINSEADScholar, Scholar at St Edwards, Oxford
English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
recipe9
movie9
react9
create-react-app8
backend8
zero-configuration8
transmission7
usenet7
user-experience7
developer-tools7
build-tools7
bittorrent6
vue6
couchpotato6
torrent6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StevenAFC/COUNTU_UDF
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes in 5 months
StevenAFC/garage-console-api
May 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 121 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
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