David Chait

David Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Travefy, the itinerary, proposal and client-management platform that thousands of travel advisors use to make their trips look as good as they feel. He started it in 2012 to untangle a friend's bachelor party booked across 75 emails, pivoted the whole company to serve travel professionals in 2016, and built it into one of the quiet workhorses of the travel-advisor economy from an office in Lincoln, Nebraska. A former McKinsey consultant and Obama-era SBA policy advisor with two Columbia degrees, he is now an industry advocate, vice chair of The Travel Institute board, and ASTA's 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year.