Ninan Chacko

Ninan Chacko
CEO
PR Newswire

Ninan Chacko is CEO of PR Newswire, the premier global provider of marketing and communications solutions that enables you to optimize and distribute content to actively engage with all key audiences, across traditional, digital, social and mobile channels, anywhere in the world. Since joining PR Newswire in 2009, Chacko has been leading a senior management team across the Americas, Europe and Asia, setting and implementing the organization’s global vision and strategy, overseeing company operations and driving the development of innovative products and technologies to power business growth. Chacko is instrumental in the company’s current shift from newswire service to full service provider of workflow platforms and engagement tools – for PR and marketing professionals – that support content marketing.

Prior to joining PR Newswire, Chacko served as chief commercial officer of Worldspan, the worldwide travel information, e-commerce and technology service provider to travel agencies, travel service providers and corporations. In this role, he was responsible for sales, marketing, customer operations, service and support activities for traditional and online travel agencies, travel suppliers and corporate customers in more than 60 countries. Chacko was a founding member of the buyout consortium management team that acquired Worldspan in 2003 from Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines and American Airlines, and served in the role of chief commercial officer until its $1.4 billion sale to Travelport in 2007.

Prior to Worldspan, Chacko spent more than 13 years with Sabre Holdings, a leading supplier of distribution and technology solutions to the travel industry and Sabre’s former owner, AMR Corp. As senior vice president, Chacko led the development, launch and operation of the company's hotel merchant business in the travel agency channel. Prior to that, he served in a variety of leadership roles at Sabre, including senior vice president of marketing for Sabre Travel Network and senior vice president of global services. Chacko began his career with System One Corporation before joining American Airlines' Decision Technologies group in 1990.