Stay22, the travel tech company that offers affiliate revenue generation opportunities for travel bloggers and media, has today confirmed that exponential growth in bookings for affiliate partners has now allowed the company to strengthen its leadership team and grow the staff count to over 50 members.

Since Septemer of last year Stay22 has appointed six ‘Heads of’, including:

Laura Di Costanzo as Head of Product
Sasha Pustomelnyk as Head of Engineering
Joelle Lapointe as Head of Partner Success
José Pontes as Head of Finance
Celine Harwood as Head of HR
Rami Nuseir as Head of Marketing.

In addition, the company has appointed seven other team members in areas such as Business Development, Machine Learning and Full Stack Engineers.

In total all these appointments take the numbers of employees up from 37 at year end 2023 to currently over 50 with the team mostly based in Montreal, Canada.

Andrew Lockhead, CEO & Co-Founder of Stay22 comments: “The exponential growth of our underlying business has meant that we’ve been able to strengthen the leadership team, and genereally expand across all areas to take on some of the most talented and creative people in our sector as we progress from start-up to scale-up mode.

“Already they are working harder than ever to give our supplier partners high-profit and incremental bookings not accessible via normal distribution channels – and it’s an absolute honour to have them on board.

“Shortly we’ll be publishing more information which reveals just how much we’ve grown this year in terms of gross bookings and revenues as we look set to far outstrip our previous record performance in 2023.”

This news follows Stay22 confirming that it expects its products to hit 1.45 billion unique views on affiliate partners websites by the close of 2024.
Earlier in the year the company confirmed that it quadrupled the number of bloggers it works with during 2023, from 200 up to 900 – and that it generated 562,000 bookings worth approximately $250 million USD in high-margin, incremental revenues for supplier partners during 2023.