Aaron Shepherd

Pegasus Fellow

Aaron Shepherd serves as a Pegasus Fellow for Pegasus Solutions, a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. His focus is on evolving Pegasus’ next generation CRS, RezView® NG (RVNG), while working closely with company leadership on strategic growth and industry innovation.

Previously as chief information officer for Pegasus, Shepherd was responsible for information technology (IT), including areas such as development, enterprise services, quality assurance, architecture, infrastructure and more. He also served as the senior vice president of Reservation Technology for Pegasus.

Before joining Pegasus, Shepherd was chairman and chief executive officer of GuestClick, a provider of enterprise Hotel Management and Central Reservation Systems to companies such as Mobil Travel Guide, Home Away, and Best Western. Prior to GuestClick, Shepherd was the president of Executive Technologies, which implemented leading edge software programs designed by Shepherd that processed online reservations for large hospitality chains, including Best Western International, Westin Hotels and Resorts, Wyndham Hotels, and Sandals Resorts.

As CEO and president of his prior businesses, Shepherd was involved in all aspects of operations including product design and development, management of large-scale development projects, day-to-day business issues, financing, long term planning, human resources and recruiting. His leadership culminated in the successful sales of Executive Technologies to Micros Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: MCRS) in 1995, and of GuestClick to Pegasus in 2007. Shepherd additionally successfully facilitated the integration of the merged companies.

Shepherd has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years and has written over one hundred systems in numerous computing environments. Shepherd is an Oracle Master and an expert with Internet based systems, large online transaction databases, distributed/open systems, and numerous programming languages and operating environments.