Helena Cross
Corporate Travel Editor
Helena Cross is a former GBTA executive with fifteen years in corporate travel procurement. She writes about SLA design, supplier scorecards, and category management for managed travel programs, with a particular focus on ground transportation, hotel RFP frameworks, and the contractual mechanics that separate a vendor from a partner. She is based in New York.
corporate
We ranked nine New York operators on the criteria that decide whether a bank-led IPO roadshow car program survives a T-1 to bell-ringing-day 15-day intensive multi-city tour anchored on the NYC leg: banker-dispatch-board precision against the underwriter's pricing calendar, cap-table-meeting curbside-protocol intelligence at Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Wellington, Capital Group, Vanguard, Citadel, Millennium, and Point72, dual-NDA posture across the S-1 quiet-period window, single-pod continuity for the CEO-CFO-IR head-counsel-banker working session, and the bell-ringing-day NYSE or Nasdaq logistics that the issuer cannot run late on.
By Helena Cross · 12 May 2026
corporate
We ranked nine New York corporate car operators on the procurement criteria that determine whether a vendor survives a managed-program RFP: SLA discipline, billing infrastructure, reporting cadence, NDA terms, and business-continuity posture.
By Helena Cross · 12 May 2026
corporate
We ranked nine New York operators on the criteria that decide whether a pharma roadshow car program survives a banker-led non-deal-roadshow week or a JPMorgan Healthcare Conference satellite block: dispatch-board rigor, deck-staging in-cabin, NDA discipline at the company and chauffeur level, CFO-prep continuity between stops, and the cross-border posture that the Boston KOL leg and the Princeton due-diligence leg structurally require.
By Helena Cross · 12 May 2026
guides
We ranked nine New York monthly retainer car operators on the contract structure that defines a real chauffeur retainer: same-vehicle and same-driver assignment, dedicated dispatch, blended hourly economics, NDA discipline, T&E coding, after-hours coverage, and the multi-year continuity that separates a corporate retainer from a per-trip booking.
By Helena Cross · 12 May 2026
guides
We ranked nine New York weekly car-service operators on the structural features that define a real 5-to-7-day chauffeur engagement: same-chauffeur and same-vehicle continuity across the week, hotel-anchored circuit dispatch, blended 40-to-60-hour pricing, dedicated mid-week communication channels, NDA discipline calibrated to the week-long visit, and the trust-and-discretion build that compresses friction from Monday arrival through Friday departure.
By Helena Cross · 12 May 2026