Angela is an extremely driven and focused product leader. She has extensive industry experience and is able to leverage her knowledge to produce outstanding results. She is data driven and able to utilize information from disparate to sources to inform her strategic decisions. She works extremely well cross functionally and is able to get “buy-in” for her teams efforts from the “C-suite” thru the organization and consistently exceeds all goals and expected results.
Steve Praven
Vice President Strategic Partnerships at Groupon
I was lucky enough to work with Angela for 2 years at Fareportal. As a Senior Designer, I have had some experience working with good and bad managers, and Angela is a great one. She leveraged my skill set, navigated our team away from pitfalls, and delivered results to stakeholders. An easy example of this is the Car Rental Listing page redesign project she led that resulted in a 32% year over year growth in sales. While delivering those results she maintained a positive and warm morale within the team that left me excited for my next project with her. I can highly recommend Angela to manage any design or agile team.
Sinan Arkonac
Senior Product Designer Xandr
As a manager, Angela inspires people to excel and gives them the tools to do so. Her enthusiasm is contagious, and her strong drive, capabilities, and work ethic set an example that shapes the attitude of her entire team. By setting high expectations and providing the support and guidance to attain them, Angela draws out the best in people, resulting in teams that accomplish great things and have a great time doing it. She is a fantastic manager all around. Kindness and empathy make you the most beautiful person in the world and that is what I think of Angela. She gives you freedom to be creative, appreciate your knowledge and gives you credit for your work. I wish everyone can have manager like her and I hope to work with her in the future. She is a great example of a 21st-century leader who knows how to manage teams and at the same time being authentic and transparent. I definitely see Angela leading the product organization in the future .
Tushar Roy
Digital Product Lead ShopRite
Angela is one of the best colleagues I have worked with throughout my career. As a product owner/director she is a visionary always looking for creative ways to spark innovation and create new product ideas that drive the bottom line. She not only excels in directing a product strategy, but she is also very well versed on the commercial relationship side as well. She has an uncanny ability to foster positive relationships and is a master collaborator. She truly has a unique ability in mentoring and coaching to those looking for guidance. Above all she is a great person, and would be a huge asset to any organization.
Christopher Cialino
Sr. Manager Supplier Relations Fareportal
As the largest franchisee of Budget Rent a Car for the past forty years, I have had the opportunity to work with literally thousands of “Big Budget” employees. Angela is by far the most competent, hardworking, innovative executive that I have encountered.
If she would move from the New York area, there is no job within my organization for which I wouldn’t covet her. An employer who hires Angela will get a well-rounded executive and a wonderful person.
Roger Gelder
President Budget Rent a Car of Atlanta
I had the pleasure of working with Angela for 3 years. She is a driven individual focused on delivering solutions that meet or exceed the needs of her internal and external customers. She builds strong, effective relationships with her customers and has the leadership skills to lead internal colleagues to define and execute new solutions. Angela really knows how to cut through organizational clutter and politics to get things done quickly. She is the type of individual that will organize the team and figure out how to get things done no matter the situation.
Eric Smuda
Chief Customer Officer, CX Leader Hertz
Angela collaborates well when put into team situations. Even more importantly, she is intuitive on those situations, and knows when it is appropriate to follow, lead from behind and encourage others, or simply lead. I have seen Angela help take a team that may be struggling for direction and providing the right amount of leadership, and do so in a way that drives active participation by the other team members.
Angela is capable of leading, but she is equally comfortable supporting a self-directed team and helping support and drive the best performance out of each individual contributor. It’s because of her intuitive nature that allows her to maximize her contribution and the contribution of others.
Anthony Tuorto
President of Ant Colony Corp
I have worked with Angela Barbato for the past three years in her role with the Avis Budget Group as a Director of Licensee Relations and Franchise Operations.
Angela brought the rare combination of someone who had the knowledge and expertise to assist in the operation of our business, and the vision to help us grow beyond the standard cookie cutter franchise. She helped bring the resources of a Fortune 200 company to assist a small business, implementing technology solutions that were beyond our company’s limited abilities.Most of all, Angela always showed the utmost commitment to help and go above and beyond to be supportive and cared about our needs. Extreme competence and empathy is a rare combination, that describes Angela to a “T”.
Solomon Cramer
President Budget Rent a Car of Harrisburg
I enjoyed having Angela on my team over the last several years. She was able to build relationships and become a trusted advisor to inspire and enable change for both internal and external customers. Angela has a genuine interest in developing and motivating the people around her. Her ability to think outside of the box to initiate and implement new programs allowed our department to improve overall customer satisfaction scores to the highest level recognized in years. I’d highly recommend Angela as a leader in any client organization.
Priscilla Alvarado
Vice President Franchise Operations
Avis Budget Group
Angela is a fantastic leader who works well with others. She is exceptionally collaborative and can influence a group. I had the pleasure of working with her on a year long project as part of a Women in leadership group. She is highly organized, listens well to input, and can help a group come to consensus. I would hire Angela to be on my team. Her work ethic is superior to many I have worked with over the years. She inspires those around her to be better versions of themselves.
Nicole Mozeliak
General Manager- Mid Atlantic Territory at WeWork
As Vice President of Franchise Operations for Avis Budget Group, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Angela on numerous operational and I.T. related projects for at least a decade.
I represented the Franchisees in I.T. projects related to improving operational processes, enhancing revenue and legal compliance. Each project was unique in nature and complex. I depended on Angela with her extensive operational and I.T. background to properly asses the given situation, recommend the most expedient and cost effective process to accomplish the goal at hand. Angela was clear thinking and decisive in her analysis and took the initiative to see the project through until it was completed. In my 35 years with Avis Budget group, I worked with countless people at all levels of the organization. Angela always demonstrated professionalism in her approach and her detail oriented nature and problem solving skills were a winning formula for success. She is among one of the top people I worked with at ABG.
I was so impressed with Angela’s skills that I hired her as a project manager in my new position of Executive Director for the Avis Licensee Association to tackle a 40 year, intricate and entangled issue that affects all franchisees. Many before have tried and failed to fix this problem. Angela was the perfect gift that brought us all together to map out the components, gain agreement and determine a solution.
Kathie Klopfer
Executive Director
Avis Advertising Trust
Avis, Budget and Payless Association