Mr. Gumpe has a demonstrated history of success in the Travel and Tourism industry. He is a highly successful and versatile individual, with a proven track record of achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives within divisions allocated to him, including start-ups, turnarounds, and rapidly changing business environments. He is a leader with solid success in driving business development efforts, profit and loss oversight, and staff development and leadership. He excels at shaping long-range vision and strategy, and at aligning people and departments to create long-term shareholder value by identifying, growing, and deploying core competencies.

He is an intuitive professional with strong expertise in developing and implementing business growth and operational strategies that increase company profits while controlling costs. He is a dynamic leader with a solid history of building and leading cross-functional management teams in multicultural environments to achieve corporate objectives. Skilled in Operations Management, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Sales Management, Strategy Formulation, and project delivery, he has an unrivaled capacity for results. Passionate and hands-on, he is a leader driven by sales numbers and service excellence, with a professional background in Retail Management and Merchandising.

He has over 24 years of experience and has worked for various reputable organizations, holding several senior management positions. His experience was attained from organizations such as BA/Comair, Lufthansa German Airlines, Wings Corporate Travel, and African Access (Chanti Travel), to name a few. His vast knowledge, coupled with his extensive travels abroad, will bring unmatched sustainability to Panther Corporate Travel by providing clear strategic direction, creating and building relationships with all Panther stakeholders, and delivering projects with unrivaled capacity.