Management

KDS management team is composed of Yves Weisselberger, CEO; Adi Sossover, CFO; Dave Ashton VP Business Development; Pascal Gaude Vice President of Professional Services and Stéphane Le Cam, VP Engineering.

KDS Teams

KDS's entrepreneurial staff has helped pioneer the revolution in how the digital age affects the business travel industry, and how people interact with each other.
The KDS team comprises passionate, diverse and dedicated groups including engineering, marketing and travel experts, who share a great energy and enthusiasm about the future of the business travel industry.

KDS’s professionals are drawn from organizations including major airlines, travel management companies, and GDSs. These travel industry experts are joined by developers and project managers from leading international high-tech companies.

KDS Management Team

Yves Weisselberger

Chief Executive Officer, founder and shareholder, has been at the head of KDS since its creation in 1994. During the first phase of growth, KDS mainly focused on designing and developing it’s break through technology. Then, Yves defined KDS’s strategic business development and its offerings, and positioned them as global business travel management solutions. Today, his main goal for KDS is to see the company reach the leading worldwide position on the business travel management market.

Before founding and managing KDS, Yves was co-founder and Sales Manager of Klee Group, a consultancy specialized in systems integration and strategic e-Business applications for large corporations. Today, Klee Group employs 200+ people and its turnover is in the 20 million euro range. Thanks to this experience as an entrepreneur, Yves has acquired the management skills required for running a business as well as the know-know for strategic sales growth.

Yves started his career as an engineer at Bull, a server and software vendor, where he held different executive positions. He was responsible for an operating systems development team and participated in various operating system development projects.

Yves graduated, as an IT and telecommunications engineer, from Ecole Polytechnique (class of 1979) and from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (class of 1984), two of the top French post-graduate engineering schools.

Dave Ashton

As Vice President of Business Development, Dave oversees KDS' commercial activities in North America, Asia, and the Middle East, and has responsibility for all strategic partnerships worldwide. 

Dave moved with his family to France after spending several years as Vice President of Business Development at Reactivity, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Prior to this Dave was VP of Business Development and Director of International Operations at Cyclone Commerce, an enterprise software company acquired by Axway in 2005. 

Dave began his career in the China Strategy Group of Accenture, where he worked for Fortune 500 clients looking to establish operations in Asia. Dave speaks French and Chinese (Cantonese), and has an MBA from Stanford.

Pascal Gaude

Vice President of Professional Services, Pascal Gaudé oversees worldwide consulting, integration, customer service and support and training for KDS. Pascal came to KDS after four years as Senior Director of Professional Services at salesforce.com in Europe where he built up the Southern team into a world class organization. Prior to salesforce.com, Pascal was Director of Consulting in Europe for Trilogy Software. Pascal started his career as a Department Manager at Auchan, a major supermarket chain in Europe. He holds expertise in several sectors from finance, manufacturing, service and distribution to travel management within the airline industry. Pascal graduated with Bachelor of Science in Management from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992. 

Adi Sossover

Chief Financial Officer, Vice president Finance & Administration. Mr Sossover has over 20 years of experience , mostly in the software sector, and services industry. He served as Vice President of Finance and Administration for various international companies, among which the latest are Tecnomatix and UGS, a worldwide leader of product life management software solutions. He graduated from the University of Jerusalem in Economics, Finance and Accounting.

Stéphane Le Cam