Xavier Vallee

Chief AI Officer Tour Partner Group

Xavier Vallée is Chief Technology and AI Officer at Tour Partner Group, one of Europe's leading specialist destination management companies, scaling fast through acquisition. Recruited as its first CTAIO, he authored the board-approved AI and automation value-creation plan and is delivering it from the front. His thesis is simple: the value is not in redesigning workflows, it is in automating the hundreds of decisions buried inside them. He has developed a repeatable approach, Decision-Centric Transformation, for finding and capturing it, and the results are already on the P&L. Two automation pilots have generated over £1m of EBITDA from a £100k investment, one of them cutting a core sales process from three hours to three minutes. Xavier owns the operational outcome, not only the technology, and architects the AI systems himself. That combination of commercial and technical leadership is the product of 25 years creating enterprise value in PE-backed, consumer-facing businesses. At Parkdean Resorts he ran a business in all but name: a £200m P&L and 250 people across marketing, revenue management, partnerships, the contact centre and digital, moving revenue from minus eleven to plus five percent in a declining market while lowering the cost base. At APCOA Parking he built a platform serving millions across nine countries and helped create €200m of enterprise value into exit. He leads from the front and through others: building leadership teams, changing cultures, and aligning boards and investors behind a single plan. An engineer and former strategy consultant, Xavier is an operator who has delivered transformation and carried it to exit, not a consultant who has observed it.