Ricky Horwitz | Global Head of Sales - Travel, Ticketing and Lodging,
Allianz Partners

Ricky Horwitz, Global Head of Sales - Travel, Ticketing and Lodging, leads a globe-spanning team of industry pioneers in transforming the way the world’s most iconic Travel, Ticketing and Lodging brands protect their customers. A 25-year company veteran, Ricky has been a critical leader in Allianz Partner’s legacy of industry firsts, such as being the first to embed travel insurance in the booking paths of airlines, OTA’s, and most recently the world’s largest hotelier, while innovating solutions for airline loyalty programs, launching a full-service travel insurance app, and providing a fully digital claims platform. Ricky’s expertise in strategic planning and relentless customer focus has helped transform the notion of a simple product provider into one of the most powerful partnership growth engines in the industry. An instrumental part of the team that deployed their revolutionary personalization optimization platform, Allianz FusionSM, he has not only helped partners deliver more customer value, but also propel consistent double-digit growth for more than a decade. His commitment to innovating through empathy, while staying true to Allianz’s and their partners’ core values, continues to create enhanced brand loyalty in-step with their revolution from basic travel insurance plans to always-there travel protection solutions. Ricky and the entire Allianz team take pride in reliably delivering on their promise to protect customers wherever their journeys take them and be there when they need them most.